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Putin meets UN Secretary-General in Moscow, denies hostilities in Mariupol, atrocities in Bucha
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Police seize 100 grenades smuggled from Lebanon, in suspected terror plot	3 16:17 M. Murcek [1741]
Palestinian reported killed in clash with Israeli troops near Jericho	1 08:32 Frank G [1757]
Syria says 4 soldiers killed, 3 hurt in Israeli strike near Damascus	0 [1758]
Two Pak Army soldiers martyred during gun battle with terrorists in South Waziristan: ISPR	0 [1759]
3 Chinese nationals among 4 dead in suicide attack at Karachi University	0 [1744]
Philippines disbands some private armed groups ahead of May 9 election	0 [1776]
PMF destroys seven ISIS hideouts in Anbar	0 [1746]
Turkish bombardment targets Bradost area	0 [1755]
Turkey says three soldiers killed by PKK rocket attack in Duhok	1 06:39 Besoeker [1746]
Suicide bomber kills two Iraqi troops during anti-ISIS raid	0 [1746]
Good Morning	5 22:43 JohnQC [1764]
Man kidnapped in Wershefana, west Libya	0 [1759]
70 Migrants Rescued Off Libyan Coast	1 18:55 ruprecht [1772]
Al-Qaeda terrorists destroy graves of two renowned Sufi clerics	0 [1746]
Israel seizes weapons on Lebanon's border	1 06:53 Frank G [1772]
Several ISWAP, Boko Haram Terrorists Titzup, Recovered Weapons In Borno	0 [1777]
Terrorists Release Photograph Of Abducted Male Passengers Of Kaduna-Abuja Train	0 [1777]
Page 2: WoT Background
White House says Iran is ‘a few weeks or less’ from bomb breakout	14 22:55 JohnQC [1771]
Mali's military junta accuses France of spying after video emerges of mass grave	0 [1745]
Attempts to Judaise East Jerusalem portend dangerous escalation, says Egypt's UN representative	0 [1742]
Harakat Hezbollah Al-Nujaba video from Iraq discussing simultaneous rocket and ballistic missile attacks on Israel by members of the ‘Axis of Resistance’	0 [1754]
Libyan Army Official Accuses Dbaiba of Embezzlement	0 [1748]
Bashagha Pledges to Renovate Libyan Stadiums	0 [1741]
Libyan Official: Terrorists Have Returned to the Capital	0 [1755]
Libyan MP Denounces Countries Accepting Smuggled Oil	0 [1743]
France condemns life sentence for Turkey's Kavala	1 06:59 Besoeker [1754]
US commission cites Afghanistan for religious persecution	1 09:38 Chris [1779]
Activist who assaulted Fayyad turns himself in after State Security erects checkpoints	0 [1770]
Israel's Iron Beam Ready for Deployment	0 [1774]
Page 3: Non-WoT
The tell-tale tremor of a doomed tyrant: How Putin's 'uncontrollable' shaking hand bears the hallmarks of Hitler's Parkinson's disease... as Allied forces closed in on Berlin in 1945	4 14:38 DarthVader [1753]
Woke Amazon staffer cries in meeting to discuss the 'trauma' caused by best seller children's book 'Johnny the Walrus' that compares being transgender to pretending to be a walrus	14 19:20 M. Murcek [1775]
Chicago Gangs Enjoy the Beautiful Weekend Spring Weather by Slaughtering Each Other	5 16:36 M. Murcek [1740]
N. Korea vows to boost nuclear arsenal	0 [1744]
Bill to ban child marriage in UK set for final hearing	4 12:21 Abu Uluque [1747]
Terrifying moment street racer, 49, slams his Mustang into school bus at 110mph in New Mexico and sends children FLYING	9 23:28 Silentbrick [1789]
'It's like pouring ink into a lake... it flows everywhere': Facebook doesn't know where users' data goes due to its 'open border' system that could see it fail 'tsunami' of crackdowns by privacy regulators, leaked document reveals	0 [1733]
US provided Ukrainian military with real-time info that allowed it to shoot down Russian troop transporter carrying hundreds of soldiers in early days of war	12 21:32 Frank G [1765]
Feds offer $10m reward for capture of Russian government hackers working for notorious GRU intelligence agency 'after they took down Chernobyl's radiation monitoring system'	0 [1748]
Decline in Demand for Freight perhaps precusor to recession	7 14:21 Chris [1739]
Russian T-72B3 tank was destroyed by the the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of Ukraine in the East	0 [1742]
Air Mobility Command reopens Space-Available travel	0 [1746]
Mariupol defenders: Russian forces launch 35 air strikes overnight on Azovstal plant, injuring civilians.	0 [1740]
Germany approves delivery of anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine in major policy shift	1 10:48 swksvolFF [1741]
Ukraine war: Russia to halt gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria	3 15:43 Dale [1750]
Putin meets UN Secretary-General in Moscow, denies hostilities in Mariupol, atrocities in Bucha	16 15:17 swksvolFF [1800]
Explosions heard in Poltava	0 [1741]
Zelensky: ‘No one has the right to turn nuclear energy into weapons or to blackmail the world with nuclear weapons.’	2 14:23 Snerese Elmusonter2709 [1735]
Warehouse with ammunition and many aggressors got terminated in Kherson region - Vilkul	0 [1746]
Why I Decided To Sell Twitter To Elon Musk — Jack Dorsey	2 11:43 ed in texas [1738]
Russia Expels Swedish Diplomats Over Ukraine Conflict	0 [1738]
Indian Police Arrest Two Nigerians, One Ghanaian For Creating Fake Hospital Website To Scam Prospective Kidney Donors	0 [1745]
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 26th, 2022	0 [1751]
From the Russian Perspective: Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary April 26th (updated)	0 [1743]
Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: April 26th, 2022	0 [1743]
Florida ex-con Carl Watts Jr. pleads not guilty to killing his wife	7 18:06 SteveS [1767]
Explosions in Moldova breakaway region raise concerns of widening war	1 09:01 Skidmark [1741]
Florida mom was speeding at 91 mph with two toddlers unrestrained: cops	2 14:34 Glenmore [1752]
Day 62 of invasion; Day 8 of Battle of Donbass	0 [1743]
How China's neutrality on Ukraine war fuels the narrative of a weakening yuan	0 [1750]
Visa and Mastercard have already cut ties with Russian banks. Now China's largest credit card brand might be pulling out too	4 11:30 Frank G [1740]
U.S. intel helped Ukraine protect air defenses, shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds of troops	0 [1742]
Page 4: Opinion
Twitter Employees the Day After Elon Takes Over! (humour)	4 12:48 Seeking Cure For Ignorance [1744]
MSNBC's Reid: ‘Troll' Elon Musk Wants Old South Africa in the '80s Back [She's a real gem, isn't she?]	6 20:02 Secret Master [1764]
Attack on Chinese	0 [1745]
Steyn on Covid Lockdowns	4 18:17 M. Murcek [1754]
It's Time for West to Pressure Dbaiba to Leave	0 [1767]
Roundup of responses: Here’s an idea for ⁦@elonmusk. Open the books on who Twitter has shadow banned	10 12:15 Abu Uluque [1745]
Going underground: Ukraine’s subterranean fighters highlight the benefit – and long history – of tunnels in warfare	2 09:22 Skidmark [1749]
Dialogue with the middle peasants, building a new army: VIII Congress of the RCP	0 [1762]
Page 6: Politix
UK Demands Elon Musk Keeps Twitter ‘Responsible' by Censoring Content	11 18:10 SteveS [1758]
Joe's missing millions! Financial records reveal Biden had $5.2million in unexplained income - as emails show he paid Hunter's legal bills for one megabucks Chinese deal and was tapped as 'big guy' to get a 10% cut in another	6 22:48 JohnQC [1758]
Biden pardons former Secret Service agent and 2 others	3 12:19 M. Murcek [1759]
AG Garland: 'There Will Not Be Interference' in DOJ's Hunter Biden Investigation	8 22:50 JohnQC [1767]
Klobuchar hosts roundtable to discuss spike in carjacking	3 23:40 DooDahMan [1760]
Harvard sets up $100 million endowment fund for slavery reparations	2 12:32 trailing wife [1736]
Investigators in Georgia ballot harvesting probe zero in on funding, eyewitness whistleblower	8 14:48 Glenmore [1775]

    
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Who's in the News
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9	Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
4	Commies
3	Arab Spring
3	Hezbollah
3	Sublime Porte
2	Islamic State
1	ISWAP
1	Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
1	Muslim Brotherhood
1	Pak Taliban (TTP)
1	Taliban/IEA
1	al-Qaeda in North Africa
1	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
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1	Baloch Liberation Army
1	Boko Haram (ISIS)
1	Govt of Iran
1	Govt of Iran Proxies
1	Govt of Syria
1	Human Trafficking

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