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Bolivia remains in political turmoil as anti-government protests show no sign of easing – TRT World–

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Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz have continued as the country remains mired in crisis, local media reported.

Demonstrators have set up roadblocks and blocked highways at 59 locations across the country’s nine administrative regions.

Based on the latest road map published by the Bolivian Highway Administration, transportation has been disrupted in the Andean regions of La Paz, Oruro and Potosi, as well as in the central regions of Chuquisaca and Cochabamba and the eastern region of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Attempts by security forces to reopen the 227-kilometre highway between La Paz and Oruro as part of an operation called the White Flag Humanitarian Corridor were met with fierce resistance from protesters, who reportedly threw dynamite sticks and stones at police.

Core inflation hit an annual rate of 3.3% in April, as expected, Fed’s preferred gauge shows– www.cnbc.com

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Inflation continued to hit consumer wallets in April, likely keeping the Federal Reserve on the sidelines until the current wave subsides, fresh pricing data released Thursday showed.

The personal consumption expenditures price index increased a seasonally adjusted 0.4% for the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 3.8%, the Commerce Department reported. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective readings of 0.5% and 3.8%.

Excluding food and energy, core prices rose 0.2% for the month and 3.3% for the year, against estimates of 0.3% and 3.3%.

While the annual rates were in line with forecasts, the soft monthly readings could provide some hope that the burst in prices over the previous month had begun to ease.

The Fed takes in a wide dashboard of indicators, but uses the PCE measures as its prime forecasting and policy tool. Officials generally consider core a better indicator of long-term inflation trends as it excludes the volatile gas and groceries components.

ANALYSIS | Crackdown on Chad’s opposition threatens return to one-party rule– www.news24.com

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Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Déby attends a working lunch on reforming the international financial architecture at the Africa Forward summit in Nairobi on 12 May.

Rather than learning from Chad’s history of coups and deadly conflicts, current leaders seem determined to repeat the cycle, writes Remadji Hoinathy in ISS Today.

Just two weeks after eight opposition leaders were arrested for planning a march against Chad’s governance problems, they were sentenced to eight years in prison without parole. Their Political Actors Consultation Group (GCAP) had scheduled the demonstration for 2 May.

A day before their sentencing on 8 May, the Supreme Court announced that the GCAP – the country’s main political opposition coalition – had been dissolved. The jailed leaders join key opposition figure Succès Masra, head of The Transformers party, who was imprisoned for 20 years in August 2025 for ‘incitement to hatred.’

Live Updates: Iran claims to target U.S. base after new strikes, as Trump says regime "negotiating on fumes" – CBS News– news.google.com

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  1. Live Updates: Iran claims to target U.S. base after new strikes, as Trump says regime “negotiating on fumes”  CBS News
  2. Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Trade Strikes, Further Threatening Negotiations  The New York Times
  3. Oil jumps 2.5% after Iran says it targeted U.S. airbase following fresh American strikes  CNBC
  4. Iran and U.S. trade strikes and 11 presumed dead in chemical implosion: Morning Rundown  NBC News
  5. U.S. and Iran trade strikes as Trump cites no pressure for a peace deal  The Washington Post

South Africa and Afrikaners reject US claims of humanitarian crisis for white people– www.euronews.com

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South Africa and Afrikaners reject US claims of humanitarian crisis for white people– www.euronews.com
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The South African government and advocacy groups for the country’s Afrikaner white minority rejected on Wednesday the Trump administration’s position that there’s a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in South Africa.

The argument served as the administration’s rationale for raising the US refugee cap, but only for white Afrikaners.

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will admit an additional 10,000 white South Africans into the US as refugees this year, increasing its annual quota, but blocking people from other countries from entering through the programme.

Trump Administration Putting Cuba Invasion Plans Into Motion– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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The Pentagon has reportedly spent months putting key military assets into position near Cuba, fueling speculation that the Trump administration is laying the groundwork for potential military action against the communist-led island nation.

U.S. military planners have quietly expanded naval deployments, surveillance operations and regional force positioning in the Caribbean as tensions between Washington and Havana continue to intensify according to a recent report from Politico.

The developments come after President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year labeling Cuba an “extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security. The administration has accused the Cuban government of strengthening ties with hostile foreign actors, including Russia, China, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah, while allegedly allowing foreign intelligence operations to target the United States from just 90 miles off the Florida coast.

‘They don’t care whether civilians get hurt’ – German police union chief warns of soaring foreign gang violence after 515 shots fired in Berlin in 2025– rmx.news

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As the left discusses increasing diversity and acceptance, violence is escalating across Germany. Today on the streets of Berlin, four Turkish-Kurdish gangs are fighting for dominance in the drug trade, and

According to Manuel Ostermann, federal chairman of the DPolG Federal Police Union, these gangs are extremely well-connected and structured, maintain global financial networks, and know no bounds in their fight for power.

“They don’t hesitate for a second to use firearms or explosives. They have no inhibitions,” he tells Bild. “This is certainly not the end of the escalation. Today, it’s no longer just brawls, but open gun violence and hand grenades.”

Chinese interference ‘systemic,’ report says as minister returns to Canada – National– globalnews.ca

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Canadian researchers are calling for a more coordinated response by G7 countries to counter “systemic” Chinese foreign interference, particularly as technology and tactics evolve and Beijing’s agents embed themselves further into societies.

Wednesday’s report by the Montreal Institute for Global Security comes a day before Canada is set to welcome China’s foreign minister to Ottawa for the first time in a decade.

Speaking alongside the report’s authors on Parliament Hill, former member of Parliament John McKay urged Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to raise the issue of foreign interference with her counterpart Wang Yi during his visit.

Carney says Canada will buy European surveillance planes over two American options– abcnews.com

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TORONTO — Canada will buy early warning radar planes built by Sweden’s Saab and Canada’s Bombardier over two American options, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday.

Carney said his government has entered negotiations to procure Saab’s Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft, which is built on the Canadian-manufactured Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft and will support domestic production.

Carney also noted it is made with 20% U.S. content. The federal government has previously said it’s in the market for six radar aircraft.

Carney has made a point of diversifying its military spending away from the United States.

Ghana begins repatriating citizens from South Africa due to anti-immigration tensions– abcnews.com

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JOHANNEBURG — The first group of around 300 Ghanaian nationals flew to their country on Wednesday as their government started a voluntary repatriation program for its citizens in response to anti-immigration tensions in South Africa.

Families and travelers gathered at the Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg with their luggage as officials and police coordinated the departure process.

The repatriation follows renewed demonstrations over illegal immigration in parts of South Africa, where frustrations over unemployment, crime and access to services have fueled tensions.

Belgian Court Rules ‘Factually Correct’ Remarks Can Be Hate Speech– www.cbn.com

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Truth is now criminal hate speech if used to “incite hatred,” according to a Belgian court.

The ruling came in the case of anti-migration activist Dries Van Langenhove, who said in a post on X that, “it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge’s frustration.”

Van Langenhove’s conviction was based on a lecture given in 2024 at Catholic University Leuven, in which he linked mass migration to “crime and a deterioration of our quality of life.”

He said, “Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.”

‘Ebola case’ in European country as ‘catastrophe’ warning issued for deadly disease | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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A suspected Ebola case has sparked concern in Austria amid fears the deadly disease may have already spread to Europe. Health officials in Austria said the patient became ill shortly after returning from Uganda, where they are believed to have contracted the newly identified Bundibugyo strain.

It comes as the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is hampering the Ebola outbreak response. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Ituri province in the east of the country was at the centre of a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict”. In a statement posted on X, Tedros said the WHO could not “build community trust or isolate the sick while bombs are falling”.

Iran says draft deal with US would reopen Strait of Hormuz shipping, end naval blockade– www.channelnewsasia.com

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DUBAI: Iran’s state TV said Tehran had obtained a draft of an initial, unofficial framework for a memorandum of understanding with the United States on ending their conflict.

Under the framework, Iran would restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels within a month, while the US would withdraw military forces from Iran’s vicinity and lift a naval blockade.

State TV said on Wednesday (May 27) the framework, which excludes military vessels and envisages Iran managing ship traffic through the strait in cooperation with Oman, was not yet finalised and that Tehran would take no steps without “tangible verification”.

Chinese AI experts in private firms now required to secure approval before international travel — Beijing enforces policy to secure top-tier talent, expands measures beyond government – Tom's Hardware

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China now requires people working in AI at private firms to secure travel approval before leaving the country. According to Bloomberg, the restrictions apply to individuals working in state-owned firms, startup founders, and those employed by private companies, as the central government considers them important strategic assets. China has already been limiting international travel for key individuals such as senior researchers at public educational institutions, nuclear scientists, and even top executives of government-owned companies, but extending the restriction to private firms and individuals is an uncommon move, even for Beijing.

There’s no official guidance yet on which roles, expertise, or seniority will be included in the travel ban. However, Bloomberg sources say that the individuals added to the list were assessed based on their impact on China’s AI ambitions, not just where they work or their position within their company. This move is an expansion of a former government directive wherein some AI engineers had mandatory reporting of any overseas travel plan, although they were still free to go abroad as needed.

This shows that Beijing considers AI as a strategic advantage and that the people leading the industry are considered crucial for the country’s advancement. This news comes months after Meta’s surprise purchase of Manus AI, which China wants to unwind to prevent the U.S. from acquiring Chinese AI talent and intellectual property. Although the two aren’t directly related, the report says that the new policy is designed to protect against the leaking of key technologies, such as the one being developed by the Chinese startup that moved to Singapore.

 

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package– arstechnica.com

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Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and credentials to third-party accounts, a security researcher is warning.

The vulnerability is present in Starlette, an open source framework that its developer says receives 325 million downloads per week. Thousands of other open source projects are also vulnerable because they require Starlette to work. The framework is an implementation of the ASGI (asynchronous server gateway interface), which allows large numbers of requests to be efficiently processed simultaneously. Starlette is the base of FastAPI and other widely used frameworks for building services in Python apps, as well as many others.

Trivial to exploit, millions of servers exposed

ASGI, and by extension Starlette, have access to servers running the MCP (model context protocol), which allows AI agents from major providers to access external sources, including user data bases, email and calendar accounts, and all manner of other resources. To connect with these external systems, MCP servers store credentials for each one, making them especially valuable storehouses for attackers to breach.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48710 and under the name BadHost, is trivial to exploit and works against most systems that aren’t behind a properly configured firewall. Besides FastAPI, other widely used packages—including vLLM, and LiteLLM—are also affected. BadHost affects Starlette versions prior to 1.0.1, which was released Friday.

“A single character injected into the HTTP Host header bypasses path-based authorization in Starlette, the routing core of FastAPI,” researchers from Secwest wrote. “Through FastAPI, this primitive (now tracked as CVE-2026-48710 and branded BadHost by the discoverers) reaches a large segment of the Python AI tooling ecosystem: vLLM (where the bug was discovered), LiteLLM, Text Generation Inference, most OpenAI-shim proxies, MCP servers, agent harnesses, eval dashboards, and model-management UIs.”

BadHost carries a severity rating of 7 out of 10. Secwest said the classification “materially understates” the threat it poses to people using other apps that depend on Starlette. X41 D-Sec, the security firm that discovered it, described it as having “critical severity.” X41 D-Sec partnered with fellow security firm Nemesis to create an online scanner that can check if a given server is vulnerable.

 

Iran media says negotiators seek $24 billion asset release in US deal– www.news24.com

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Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a large portrait of Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ali Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in US-Israeli joint strikes.

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  • Iranian negotiators are reportedly seeking the release of about $24 billion in frozen assets as part of talks aimed at ending the war with the United States.
  • Tehran is finalising a 14-point framework for a possible agreement following months of conflict sparked by US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February.
  • Senior Iranian officials, including Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Abbas Araghchi, are in Qatar for negotiations focused on accessing an initial $12 billion tranche of funds.

Iranian media said on Tuesday that Tehran’s negotiators were seeking the release of around $24 billion in frozen assets abroad as part of a process aimed at ending the war with the United States.

The report by Tasnim news agency came as a top Iranian delegation was in Qatar, and after Tehran said it was finalising a 14-point framework for a deal on ending the war, which began with US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran on 28 February.

“Iran’s frozen assets are to be released during the course of the negotiations, and this amount is estimated at $24 billion in accordance with the 14-point memorandum of understanding,” Tasnim quoted an unnamed source close to the negotiating team as saying.

Around half of that sum “should be made available at the start of the announcement of the memorandum,” it added.

Israel says strike killed new chief of Hamas armed wing in Gaza– www.cbsnews.com

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Israel said on Wednesday it had killed the new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, in a strike the day before, after killing his predecessor in a similar attack earlier this month.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the “commander of the armed wing of the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza was eliminated yesterday and sent to meet his associates in the depths of hell.”

Hamas hasn’t commented yet.

“In the Prime Minister’s name and in my own, congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Bet on the brilliant execution,” Katz said.

Castros Will Leave Cuba Before U.S. Picks Up Raul– www.breitbart.com

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said that picking up Raul Castro in Cuba wouldn’t be difficult, but he thinks that, due to a desire by Castro to avoid dying in prison, “Raul Castro is going to leave the country, along with his family” “before we pick him up.”

Scott said, “Well, let’s remember, the Cubans were supporting — were defending Maduro, and that took, what, seven minutes to take out Maduro? So, it won’t take much to pick up Raul Castro. And the people of Cuba are already –.”

Co-host Kailey Leinz then cut in to ask, “You expect that to happen?”

US Says Iran War Disagreements Down To “A Word, A Sentence”– www.ndtv.com

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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei on Tuesday accused the US of committing a “despicable war crime” following a missile strike on a sports hall in Lamerd, Fars Province, that Tehran says killed 24 civilians, including teenage volleyball players and a two-year-old child, while injuring more than 130 people.

In a post on X, Baghaei said he was briefed by the Iranian member of Parliament for Mehr, Mousa Mousavi, about a ” devastating American missile strike” on a residential area and sports hall in the city of Lamerd.

“On the afternoon of Saturday, 9 Esfand 1404 (28 February 2026) the same day students at the Shajareh_Tayyibeh_School in Minab were massacred by Tomahawk missiles–a residential area in Lamerd, including a sports hall, was struck by U.S. Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM),” Baghaei said.

According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, the strike “slaughtered 24 persons, including a 2-year-old girl, several teenage volleyball players”, while “more than 130 persons were injured, many of whom now face permanent disabilities.”

Beaver Scout Refuses To Bow To Allah During Prayer Demonstration On Field Trip– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Beaver Scouts in Scotland took a trip to the Central Scotland Islamic Centre for reasons that will never advance the West. Nonetheless, on that trip, the scouts, boys aged 6-8, bowed to Allah. This should be controversial because there is absolutely zero reason as to why these kids are being religiously indoctrinated. Nonetheless, one boy refused to participate in the Muslim prayer, and that puts him on the right side of history.

According to 5Pillars, “the largest English language Muslim news site in Europe, Australia and the Americas,” the clip “was taken during a Beavers Scouts educational visit to various houses of worship, including a mosque, as part of the ‘Faith Activity Badge.’ The visit took place at Stirling Islamic Centre in Scotland a few days ago.”

In other words, according to local media, this is not indoctrination; it is education. And to call that a bunch of gobbledygook would be an understatement. And LOL to the fact that they just had to throw in the “Islamophobia” slander. In case it was not clear, no one buys that crap anymore.

In order to achieve this badge, Scouts can visit a place of worship and tell other Scouts about what they learned. This can include visiting a mosque to learn about Islam. That explains why they did what they did, but the fact that this is encouraged is proof that Europe has fallen.

In the pursuit of being so incredibly tolerant and inclusive, the left has favored whatever this is; the fact that this is not controversial for many people is a scandal in itself.

Viral video shows Vancouver man arrest after psychiatrist ‘certified’ him from a café– www.lifesitenews.com

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A video of a man being detained in Vancouver by police and a CAR 87 mental health unit team has gone viral, acquiring millions of views on social media.

The detention took place on May 23, 2026. In the video, Nicholas Jordan Wagter could be seen looking to his passenger window while a man identified as Dr. Emory (some posts say “Emery”) is introduced, a resident psychiatrist on rotation with CAR 87, who is “part of a program that includes Vancouver Coastal Health and the Vancouver Police.”

“Every case is a little different,” Emory says. “In your case, I think you were certified under the Mental Health Act just … maybe three weeks ago or four. Where you aware of that?” Emory explains that he had been “certified” by Dr. Christine Taylor – who also works with the mental health response team.

Fed’s Logan Warns US Oil Production Won’t Fill Global Supply Gap– financialpost.com

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“With supplies highly constrained, if shipping through the strait does not soon return to prewar levels, world oil and natural gas consumption could need to fall more meaningfully than it has so far,” Logan said. “The economic consequences would depend on the degree to which end users can switch to other energy sources or use energy more efficiently, versus curtailing economic activity.”

 

Dog SHOOTS woman as labrador fires loaded shotgun from truck & hits nearby driver– www.thesun.co.uk

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A WOMAN was rushed to hospital after accidentally being shot by a dog playing with a loaded firearm.

The bizarre incident happened in the town of Scottsbluff, Nebraska state, earlier this week.

Police were called to a convenience store after receiving a report that a person had been shot – with the culprit being a black labrador.

Upon arrival they found a parked truck with major blast damage in one of its doors.

In the back seat, the animal had been left to its own devices – next to the loaded shotgun, KNOP reported.

As the pup bounced from one side of its back seat to another, it somehow managed to pull the trigger.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv warns Belarus it has list of 500 targets ready if Lukashenko joins Putin’s war– www.independent.co.uk

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Ukraine has a list of 500 targets in Belarus ready if Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko joins the war with Vladimir Putin, a senior Ukrainian military commander has warned.

Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, advised Belarus against interfering in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

“To the Minsk Gauleiter Lukashesku: a barking dog does not bite. A bird of prey is different. The first 500 targets are already on the list. Free and very practical advice: don’t get in Ukraine’s way,” Brovdi said in a Facebook post, as reported by Ukrinform.