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According to reports, the 49th g7 summit will be held in Hiroshima from May 19-21. Reportedly, participants are the uk, u.s., Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the eu plus invited guests from nine countries. Mainly focusing on the global economy, pressure is put on participants to switch to nuclear electricity, termed green electricity though it is the most pollutant form of power.

According to reports, on Tuesday morning Ukraine repelled a russian offensive with newly boosted air defence, the american patriot air defence missile. Reportedly, Kyiv was the main target. According to a report, air defence forces shot down all 8 russian missiles including hypersonic missiles, said to be ten times faster than the speed of light, and nine drones.

Reportedly, the latest russian attack came as the president of Ukraine completed a tour of western europe to advocate for more air defence and fighter jets. According to reports, only $6 billion of the original $48 billion u.s. aid package approved in December remains. Reportedly, the u.s. who currently have two iron dome batteries would need Israel’s permission to send an iron dome system to Ukraine. According to a report, Israel have been reluctant to provide Ukraine with weapons and have been criticised by Kyiv for sending diplomats to Moscow.

According to a report, a planned ukrainian counter offensive has been delayed though members of new brigades were said to be ready, some having received training abroad. Reportedly, expectations for the new counter offensive have been very high, and according to a senior ukrainian analyst at the international crisis group it would be a good thing if president Zelenskyy tries to tone down expectations.

According to the report, on May 9 the u.s. secretary of state said Ukraine had everything needed for the operation, including equipment and soldiers trained in the west, and said it was up to the armed forces command to draw up a plan for success. Reportedly, the international crisis group said it was not just a military supplies issue but an industrial issue.

According to a report, the israeli home front command relaxed restrictions on southern Israel following a ceasefire reached on Saturday night between the palestinian islamic jihad and Israel, though rocket attacks may have continued. Reportedly,there were from 1100 rockets launched since Wednesday.

According to the report, an objective of Israel’s is keeping hamas out of the fight. Reportedly, a long article in the iranian news site Tasnim provided a list of threats to Israel from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Judea, Samaria, at sea and in other parts of the middle east. According to a report, iranian strategists see the public protests surrounding judicial reform as a sign of weakness, though the right to protest is a freedom.

According to reports, vote counting is underway to determine the next president of Turkey. Reportedly, the challenger to Recep Erdoğan’s twenty year leadership is Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu, a candidate chosen by a united opposition and the predicted leader in a pre election poll. According to a report, with almost 99% of the votes counted, apart from those luving abroad neither candidate has the 50% necessary to win outright. Reportedly, there may be a second election on 28 May.

According to a report, negotiations for Turkey to join the eu came to a standstill in June 2018. Reportedly, Turkey’s operations in Cyprus and in the Libyan and Syrian conflicts as western allies has exacerbated tensions due to what has been described as democratic and rule of law issues. According to a report, Turkey’s relations with nato have become problematic due to their opposing of russian sanctions, though Turkey who sent drones to Ukraine tried to help in peace negotiations.

According to a report, Russia’s wagner leader has announced that his troops will withdraw from Bakhmut on May 10 due to a lack of ammunition, saying he didn’t want any more men to die needlessly. Reportedly, he was standing surrounded by the dead bodies belonging to Russia’s wagner group. According to the report, Bakhmut has been the longest battle of the war. There have been other reports of troops suffering from a lack of food and provisions leading to high vulnerability and lawlessness.

According to a report, a Whitehouse national security spokesperson said 100,000 have died in Ukraine since December, other figures are much lower. The number of deaths is difficult to estimate, particularly on the russian side. Reportedly, many of the dead are believed to be from Russia’s wagner mercenary force who have been recruiting from schools and prisons. According to a report, convicts have been offered annulled sentences to fight.

Reportedly, Russia has captured most of Bakhmut, the administrative centre for the Donetsk area. According to reports, a drone attack on the Kremlin didn’t do much damage. Reportedly, this was followed by up to 24 drones targeting Ukraine which were mainly intercepted, but a drone strike on an oil storage facility near a bridge to Crimea caused a large fire.

Theodore Herzi, born in Hungary in 1860 was a lawyer and journalist in Vienna who asserted that antisemitism made jewish assimilation impossible and the only solution was a homecoming. He chaired the first zionist congress of 1897, seeking to assure jewish people of a home in Palestine. Philosophers have used different approaches to zionism. The approaches and paths were legal, social and economic, one being an opportunity to live and work on a kibbutz or community farm.

Jews left Israel during various empires and were dispersed. There was particular enmity between jews and romans. Many civilians were murdered by roman soldiers, including essenes who were writers of the dead sea scrolls. There were three wars with the roman empire in favour of a jewish state of Judea but though many jews may have left during this period, other tribes may have stayed. Zionism has resulted in diversity as jews from various european countries come home.

According to a report, Bosnians in Bosnia and Herzegovina are protesting about constitutional changes that they say are discriminatory. Reportedly, Bosnia is the only country in europe to have an international peace envoy. The 3 1/2 year long Bosnian war, part of the much larger Yugoslav wars ended with the dayton agreement, strook at Wright-Patterson airforce base near Dayton, Ohio. The agreement divided the people, Serbs to the republic of Srpska, Bosnians and Croats to Bosnia and Herzevgovina. Little is known about the serbs in the republic of Srpska. Reportedly, since the war ended in 1995 the countries development has been monitored by an office of the u.n. According to the report, the office has the power to remove politicians and circumvent national institutions. Reportedly, each cultural group is represented by a tripartite presidency and has its own parliament but is overseen.

According to the report, the changes put through on Thursday include the prime minister being approved by two houses of parliament and the possibility of a snap election in the event of a prolonged blocking of the process. Reportedly, a ruling coalition composed of Bosniak and Croat parties couldn’t appoint a prime minister before an April 6 deadline, the coalition broke up after the deadline. According to the report, the Bosnian vice president and member of the largest political party in Bosnia, sda refused to approve the new government which lacks any sda members.

Charles III, when crowned will be king of the united kingdom and 14 commonwealth countries. Charles was born in Buckingham palace during the reign of his maternal grandfather George VI. He was three years old when his mother Elizabeth II ascended to the throne. According to a report, Charles’ first honarary appointment in the british army was as colonel in chief of the royal regiment of Wales in 1969. Reportedly, he has since obtained honorary titles in atleast 32 military formations in the commonwealth, including the royal gurkha army who ascended from gurkha units that originally served with the british army prior to independence, and prior to that served with the british india company. During the eighties it was reported that Charles was second in command in the minister of defence.

Charles will be crowned on May 6. According to a report, british protests are planned by the group Republic. Reportedly, people in Britain are less supportive of the monarchy compared to ten years or so ago. According to a report, young people are less interested, 70% of british people between 18 and 35 say they are not interested in the monarchy.