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UN chief says Gaza war in ‘cruelest phase’ as aid trucks looted

The United Nations chief said Friday that Palestinians were enduring “the cruelest phase” of the war in Gaza, where more than a dozen food trucks were looted following the partial easing of a lengthy Israeli blockade.

Aid was just beginning to trickle back into the war-torn territory after Israel announced it would allow limited shipments to resume as it pressed a newly expanded offensive aimed at destroying Hamas.

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported at least 16 people killed in “Israeli…

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May 23, 2025
Trump Shows Misleading Photo to South African President, Claims White Farmers Are Targeted

Washington (Quds News Network)- US President Donald Trump sparked controversy this week after showing a misleading photo to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a White House meeting on Wednesday.

Trump claimed the footage showed the burial of white farmers allegedly killed in South Africa. But a Reuters investigation confirmed the photo was not from South Africa. It was actually taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and shows a funeral for victims of armed…

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May 23, 2025
Josh Paul resigned over Gaza. What comes next? | Gaza News

Why resigning from the US government wasn’t enough for one official who stepped down.

Josh Paul, the first US official to resign over Israel’s war on Gaza, joins The Take to explain why he stepped down, his new efforts lobbying in Washington, DC, and why he believes that US support for Israel’s war fuels conflict abroad and makes Americans less safe at home.

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May 23, 2025
US judge blocks Trump effort to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students | Education News

A United States judge has issued a temporary restraining order against an effort to prevent Harvard University from enrolling foreign students.

Friday’s ruling comes in response to an emergency petition filed earlier in the day in the federal district court of Boston, Massachusetts.

In that petition, Harvard sought immediate relief after the administration of President Donald Trump barred it from using a federal government system, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, that is required…

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May 23, 2025
From fringe to federal: The rise of eugenicist thinking in US policy | Racism

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said of Elon Musk during an interview with The Financial Times earlier this month. Gates indirectly referenced Musk’s role in gutting the federal agency United States Aid for International Development (USAID), where billions of dollars had gone towards global poverty reduction and the eradication of diseases for decades. That…

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May 23, 2025
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering Fires Its Founder Over Anti-Genocide Stance

Istanbul (Quds News Network)- Prominent Turkish professor, Cetin Kaya Koc, has been dismissed from the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering that he founded, after publicly expressing his position against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Professor Koc, a global expert in digital cryptography, was removed from his role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, published by German-British academic publisher Springer Nature since 2011.

Koc was also…

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May 23, 2025
Experimental drug may benefit some patients with rare form of ALS

When Columbia neurologist and scientist Neil Shneider speaks to his ALS patients who volunteer for experimental therapies, he’s unwaveringly honest. “Patients always ask me, “What can I hope to get out of this?” Shneider says. “And I always say, in most clinical trials, our hope is that we can slow the disease or maybe even halt progression.”

So it was a big surprise when some of the patients treated with an experimental drug — a therapy that emerged from Shneider’s research efforts –…

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May 23, 2025
Trump threatens 50% tariffs on EU, 25% on Apple, ratcheting up trade war | Trade War News

US President Donald Trump has threatened a 50-percent tariff on all imports from the European Union and 25-percent on Apple products unless iPhones are made in the United States.

The president announced his intentions over social media on Friday.

“Our discussions with them are going nowhere!” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Therefore, I am recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025. There is no Tariff if the product is built or manufactured in the…

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May 23, 2025
First vascularized model of stem cell islet cells

Researchers led by Maike Sander, Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center, have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas. The advance, published in Developmental Cell, promises to improve diabetes research and cell-based therapies.

An international team of researchers led by Max Delbrück Center Scientific Director Professor Maike Sander has for the first time developed an organoid model of human pluripotent stem cell-derived pancreatic islets…

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May 23, 2025
UAE tops 50C in highest May temperature on record

The United Arab Emirates registered a sizzling 50.4 degrees Celsius on Friday, the highest on record for May, following weeks of sweltering temperatures in the desert nation acutely vulnerable to climate change.

Worshippers at Friday prayers reported feeling faint and some residents appeared unsteady on their feet, even in a country that is accustomed to extreme temperatures.

The highest temperature was recorded in an area of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the oil-rich Gulf state that lies in one…

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May 23, 2025