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The World Health Organization says there are nearly 300 probable cases of children with severe hepatitis worldwide.
Health officials recording a mysterious increase in such cases...BBC NEWS
In the US the Federal Reserve Board hiking the prime lending rate a half a percent.
This is the biggest hike since the year 2000.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell citing record high inflation as dictating the move...AP-EURONEWS
THE FORMER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND WANTS JUDICIAL REVIEW OF AN ORDER BY PARLIAMENT SPEAKER TREVOR MALLARD BANNING HIM FROM THE PARLIAMENT GROUNDS FOR TWO YEARS.
WINSTON PETERS BANNED AFTER VISITING THE COVID MANDATE PROTEST CAMP OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND'S PARLIAMENT IN FEBRUARY.
PETERS DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE PROTEST BUT WAS SEEKING TO FIND A PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO PROTESTERS CONCERNS...ONE NEWS NEW ZEALAND
IN CANADA A DOCTOR IN ONTARIO SUSPENDED OVER HIS TREATMENT AND ADVICE TO PATIENTS REGARDING COVID-19...CBC NEWS CANADA
IN BEIJING CHINESE AUTHORITIES TIGHTENING COVID RESTRICTIONS LIMITING TRAVEL IN SOME AREAS WITH SUBWAY STATION CLOSURES AND LOCKING DOWN RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS...THE NATIONAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
POLITICS HERE IN THE USA WITH YESTERDAY'S PRIMARY FIGHT OVER LEGISLATIVE SEATS INSIDE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN INDIANA.
MODERATE ESTABLISHMENT INCUMBENTS TALKING 'PRO-LIFE' AND 'SECOND AMENDMENT' FACING GRASSROOTS CHRISTIANS AND CONSERVATIVES CONCERNED ABOUT COVID RESTRICTIONS AND THE COZY RELATIONSHIP OF GOP INSIDERS TO ANTI-FAMILY BUSINESS INTERESTS.
WELL-FUNDED ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS HELD BACK THEIR CHALLENGERS FOR THE MOST PART BUT IN NORTHERN INDIANA TWO OUTSIDER CANDIDATES OUSTED 'RINO' INCUMBENTS IN PRIMARIES FOR STATE HOUSE SEATS.
IN THE INDIANAPOLIS AREA A 'FAR-RIGHT' INCUMBENT OUSTED BY AN ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE IN A PRIMARY CONTEST FOR A STATE HOUSE SEAT...(VARIOUS NEWS SOURCES)
French politics horse trading on the "Left" ahead of the legislative elections in June the Communists, the Environmentalists and now the Socialists cutting deals with the "Left" party of Jean-Luc Melenchon to create a united front and hopefully the largest block of opposition to President Emmanuel Macron exceeding that of Marine Le Pen and the National Rally...(BFM-TV France)
Political turmoil in Spain over phone hacking continues.
In recent days revelations involving the Spanish Prime Minister and Defense Minister and the discovery that their phones were hacked.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will answer questions from parliament as well as the head of the Spain's intelligence agency.
But Catalan political parties believe the phone hacking incidents are a smokescreen to cover the hacking of dozens of Catalan activists, lawyers and politicians phones involving the Israeli made Pegasus technology.
Prime Minister Sanchez needs the support of Catalan politicians to pass laws and they are threatening to withdraw their support from the government...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
AS THE TURKISH MILITARY OPERATION AGAINST KURDISH FORCES CONTINUES IN NORTHERN IRAQ THE IRAQI MILITARY IS ALSO ATTACKING YAZIDIS AFFILIATED WITH THE KURDISH PKK GROUP...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
RUSSIA-UKRAINE DRAMA
RUSSIA HITS HARD AT ISRAEL OVER NEO-NAZI UKRAINIAN CONNECTIONS
RUSSIA TARGETS UKRAINIAN RAIL SYSTEM
EU BOSS PROPOSES TOTAL RUSSIAN OIL BAN
TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED
BBC NEWS UKRAINE BLOG
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova did not mince words today in discussing Israel's indifference to the Neo-Nazi aspects of Ukrainian nationalism in general and the Azov Regiment and other Neo-Nazi military units.
Zakharova said in part: "Israeli mercenaries are practically shoulder to shoulder with Azov militants in Ukraine"...AFP FRANCE-TIMES OF ISRAEL
Her response a response to the uproar surrounding Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's comments in an Italian media interview saying Hitler may have had Jewish blood.
Lavrov commenting while discussing the Jewish background of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky...TASS RUSSIA
On the ground in Ukraine its being said that Russian forces are assaulting the last holdouts at Azovstal factory complex in Mairupol...(BBC News)
Last evening Russian cruise missile strikes across Ukraine with six railway stations among the targets...SOUTHFRONT (VIDEO EMBEDDED)
Today European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposing the next round of sanctions against Russia including a total ban on oil imports from Russia.
She wants oil imports banned by the end of the year, three Russian banks disconnected from the SWIFT financial system and a ban on three broadcasters owned by the Russian government...AL JAZEERA QATAR
In other news today....
In Minneapolis former police officer Derek Chauvin, already convicted of killing George Floyd in May of 2020, cutting a plea deal on the federal civil rights charges against him.
Chauvin will be sentenced to 20 to 25 years in prison as a result of the deal...THE INDEPENDENT UK
That's the way it really is Wednesday May 4th, 2022 Day 779 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 779 of America and the World held hostage to COVID shots and runaway inflation.
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