Israel lobbies U.S. to soften tone of Quartet report on (illegal) settlements: Israel is working to prevent the report, to be issued in the last week of May, from mentioning future possible steps by the UN Security Council on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.718464
Somalia: 4 killed as extremists attack police headquarters:
A suicide car bomber struck the entrance of Somalia's traffic police headquarters in the capital on Monday , killing four people and injuring nine others
http://tinyurl.com/jdyjffb
US strategy in Afghanistan 'recipe for disaster,' Pentagon report warns: The 700-page report, much of it blacked out for security reasons, sheds light on how the rules are not clearly understood even by some troops on the ground, Reuters reported.
https://www.rt.com/usa/342358-pentagon-troops-afghan-mission/
Former fishermen sue state for hiding Bikini atoll H-bomb fallout records: - A group of former fishermen Monday filed an unprecedented lawsuit seeking compensation from the government for failing to disclose, for decades, records of their exposure to radiation from U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean in 1954.
http://tinyurl.com/hfp4kjp
Putin calls for non-aligned international security system in face of global terror threat :
"We must defeat this evil, and Russia is open to join forces with all countries and is ready to work on the creation of a modern, non-aligned system of international security."
https://www.rt.com/news/342347-putin-terrorism-global-threat/
EU referendum: Boris Johnson most personal attack on David Cameron yet: In a personal attack on the Prime Minister, Mr Johnson said he had got no "real change" from Brussels which was still intent on building "a country called Europe".
http://tinyurl.com/z2uqjq4
Mexico's Vicente Fox calls Trump 'UGLY AMERICAN, GRINGO': Vicente Fox, Mexico's former president, has stepped up his attack on Republican Donald Trump, warning that his election will return "the ugly American" and turn Mexicans on "gringos."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2590815
US will never default on debt 'because you print the money' - Trump: In an attempt to clarify his stance regarding potential default on national debt payments, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that, in the US, "you never have to default because you print the money."
https://www.rt.com/usa/342407-trump-debt-default-minimum/
