(2024-05-17). Hezbollah launches drones at Israel following Thursday assassination. middleeasteye.net 
Hezbollah launches drones at Israel following Thursday assassination | Israel is expected to present its defence over new hearings ordered by the International Court of Justice | | Smoke rising above the northern Israeli town of Metula following an attack from Lebanon amid cross-border fighting betwe…
(2024-05-17). Headlines for May 17, 2024. democracynow.org "We Don't Want Ships. We Want Safety": Displaced Gazans Reject U.S. Pier; U.N. Calls for Land Access, Spain Bars Ships with Weapons For Israel; 13 Foreign Ministers Warn Against Israel's Rafah Assault, "Israel's Genocide Has Reached New and Horrific Stage": South Africa Requests Urgent ICJ Intervention, Police Raid and Arrest Students at Gaza Solidarity Encampments at UC Berkeley, DePaul University, WaPo: Billionaires and Execs Urged Eric Adams to Send Police to Columbia's Gaza Encampment, SCOTUS Overrules Challenge to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, NYT: Upsi…
(2024-05-17). Ukraine's War and the Fight for Faith. fairobserver.com Unlike the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church does not have a unified global governance structure. Rather, it is a set of regional churches that share the same theology but have independent (or "autocephalous") heads, called patriarchs. Formally, the boundaries of these regional churches are independent of political borders. However, there is a strong tendency…
(2024-05-17). 8 Mexican farmworkers killed in Florida bus crash. wsws.org Contrary to the anti-immigrant policies of DeSantis and the Republican Party, the site of the crash has been overflowing with flowers from people and families visiting to pay their respects to the farmworkers they never met.
(2024-05-17). Tunisia: Deepening Civil Society Crackdown. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Municipal workers clean a makeshift camp outside the International Organization for Migration office after police forces attempt to evacuate the camp in Tunis, Tunisia, April 11, 2023. | © 2023 Hassene Dridi/AP Photo…
(2024-05-17). Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel. newarab.com 
The Lebanese group The attack wounded three soldiers, one of them seriously, according to the Israeli military. | Hezbollah has regularly fired missiles across the border with Israel over the past seven months, but the one on Thursday appears to have been the first successful missile airstrike it has launched from wit…
(2024-05-17). Israel strikes on Lebanon kill Hezbollah fighter, 2 children. newarab.com 
Israeli air strikes on Friday hit an area of southern Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, has traded cross-border fire with Israeli forces almost daily since the Palestinian group's October 7 attack on southern Israel. | The Iran-backed Lebanese movement has
(2024-05-17). US professor praised for Gaza student protest backing. newarab.com 
A professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) has garnered praise across social media, following her rousing speech during her arrest by police forces at a The professor, who was later identified as Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, UCI's associate professor of African American Studies, was among three faculty members arrested during the police raid. | This comes…
(2024-05-17). Israeli airstrikes kill Hezbollah fighter, 2 children in S Lebanon. presstv.ir Israeli airstrikes kill a Hezbollah fighter and two children, targeting two villages lying far from Lebanon's border with the occupied territories.
(2024-05-17). Putin's Bloody Kharkiv Advance Stuns Zelensky; Russia Grabs 278 Sq Kms Ukraine Land In Just 7 Days. hindustantimes.com Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold back Russian forces in the border town of Vovchanks in Kharkiv region. Within 7 days of its incursion, Russia has reportedly captured over 12 villages in the area and grabbed 278 sq kms of Ukrainian land. On May 16, head of Kharkiv region said Russia had gained ground near Lyptsi border village. But while Ukrainian forces try to stabilise the frontlines, a top nato commander questioned Russia's ability to advance further. He said Russians may not be able to make breakthroughs due to a lack of forces. Watch for more details. INTERNATIONAL NEWS…