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May 10, 2022
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2022-05-10
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Ituri conflict
,
2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
Fourteen people are killed during an attack by suspected
CODECO
militants at a
refugee camp
in Fataki,
Ituri Province
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.
(Reuters)
2022 Sri Lankan protests
The
Sri Lankan Defense Ministry
authorizes the
Army
and
police force
to shoot looters and assailants and to arrest protesters without warrants in response to yesterday's violence.
(Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
Apple
announces it will discontinue sales of the
iPod Touch
, officially ending the
iPod
line of
portable media players
after more than 20 years.
(
The Verge
)
The operator of
Ukraine
's natural gas system GTSOU announces that it will stop shipments of Russian gas through the Sokhranivka route on Wednesday.
(Reuters)
International relations
Lithuania–Russia relations
,
Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
The
Seimas
of
Lithuania
unanimously votes to designate
Russia
as a
terrorist state
and to classify Russia's actions in Ukraine as
genocide
.
(NPR)
In a rare public rebuke,
World Health Organization Director-General
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
criticizes
China
's
"Zero-COVID" policy
as "unsustainable", advising the Chinese government to change its strategy.
(Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
2022 Philippine presidential election
Former
Senator of the Philippines
Bongbong Marcos
, son of dictator
Ferdinand Marcos
, is expected to become the next
President of the Philippines
, based on partial and unofficial counts. Marcos has more than twice as many votes as the next closest candidate
Leni Robredo
, the current
Vice President of the Philippines
. The victory will be officially ratified by the
Congress of the Philippines
in late May.
(BBC News)
Crown Prince of Kuwait
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
accepts the
resignation
of the
Government of Kuwait
, after the request had been submitted more than a month ago. No timeline is given for when the next election will occur.
(Reuters)
Yoon Suk-yeol
is sworn in as the 13th
President of South Korea
.
(CNN)
Katalin Novák
takes office as the first female
President of Hungary
.
(Al Jazeera)
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