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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Friday said Israel has only authorized for Gaza what "amounts to a teaspoon of aid when a flood of assistance is required" and again signaled that the U.N. won't take part in a new U.S.-backed distribution plan. Israel says about 300 trucks of aid have entered Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing since it lifted an 11-week blockade on Gaza on Monday, but Guterres said that so far only about a third of those truckloads have been transported from the crossing to warehouses within Gaza due to insecurity. The U.N. and its partners have a plan to get the aid needed into Gaza, he said. Israel has only authorized a 'teaspoon' of aid for Gaza, UN chief says

Mr Trump said of talks between his administration and the EU: "Our discussions with them are going nowhere! "Therefore, I am recommending a straight 50% tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025. There is no tariff if the product is built or manufactured in the United States." "I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhones that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or any place else," wrote the president. "If that is not the case, a tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the US." https://news.sky.com/story/trump-threatens-eu-with-50-tariffs-as-apple-faces-25-unless-iphones-are-made-in-us-13373325https://news.sky.com/story/trump-threatens-eu-with-50-tariffs-as-apple-faces-25-unless-iphones-are-made-in-us-13373325

Greenland has granted a 30-year mining license to a Franco-Danish consortium to extract anorthosite, a rock used in aluminum production, from Arctic territory. The license was awarded to Greenland Anorthosite Mining (GAM), a company backed by the French Jean Boulle Group and several Danish and Greenlandic real estate investment firms, according to Reuters. While Washington has shown strong interest, Greenland’s Minister of Mineral Resources, Naaja Nathanielsen, said no concrete U.S. investment proposals have been submitted, unlike those from Europe. Greenland signs juicy deal with Europe in a blow to Trump

We often hear about possible wars in the future over water resources but this is the first time I've heard of disputes regarding the wind. Drama as country accused of stealing neighbouring nation's wind The Belgians have caused a right stink after being accused of stealing wind from Holland. Belgium has built a string of renewable wind farms in the North Sea with experts claiming they are nicking up to 3% of generating power from Dutch turbines. And the phenomenon - dubbed “wind shadow” - is a blow for relations between the neighbours.

One of the men leading the rally was Julius Malema who left the party in 2012, he has never held an official government position. He now leads a party called the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) which won 9.5% in last year's election, they form part of the Opposition. Ramaphosa pointed out that the EFF is a small minority party and said that government policy was completely against what Malema was saying. Another man in the video singing the lyric "shoot the Boer" at a different rally was former President Jacob Zuma who left office in 2018. The video is from 2012 when he was president. The ANC promised to stop singing the song shortly afterwards. Zuma subsequently left the ANC and now leads the opposition uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, which won more than 14% in last year's election.

BERLIN (Reuters) -The aid trucks that Israel has allowed into the Gaza Strip this week are "too little, too late," a spokesperson for the German government said on Friday. "This is far too little, too late and too slow," the spokesperson said. "Now it's a matter of increasing it significantly ... and ensuring that these aid supplies reach the people so that the suffering in the Gaza Strip comes to an end," he added. Berlin says aid that entered Gaza this week is 'too little, too late'

Not forgetting the utter hogwash emitting from his host.

Ukrainian drones struck a major industrial facility in the Russian city of Yelets overnight on May 23, causing fires and injuring at least eight people, Russian officials said Thursday. The targeted facility is believed to be the Energia plant, Russia’s largest manufacturer of chemical power sources, including lithium-ion batteries used in drones and other military hardware Ukraine Hits Russia’s Largest Drone and Missile Battery Plant

Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that Gaza's health system is at a breaking point as Israel's intensified military operations continue, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of basic necessities. Four major hospitals in Gaza have had to suspend medical services in the past week due to their proximity to incidents. WHO missions attempting to reach Al-Awda Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital were impeded, it said. Only 19 of the Gaza Strip's 36 hospitals remain operational while at least 94% of all hospitals are damaged or destroyed, the WHO said, adding that only 12 are in a condition to provide a variety of health services. Gaza health system at breaking point as Israeli hostilities intensify, WHO says

After all these years of so many lies, mistruths, misinformation, exaggeration- in other words steaming horse manure, how can the Trump fanboys still believe a word he says? Beyond belief.

The Israeli military issued an Arabic-language statement on Thursday to announce it was “operating with intense force” in 14 areas in the northern Gaza Strip, warning inhabitants to evacuate and accusing “terrorist organisations” of operating there. The Israeli army issued an evacuation warning on Thursday for 14 neighbourhoods of northern Gaza, as it pressed a renewed offensive that has drawn international condemnation. The warning came hours after the United Nations said it had collected and begun distributing around 90 truckloads of aid in Gaza, the first such delivery since Israel imposed a total blockade on the territory on March 2. Israel issues evacuation warning for 14 areas of northern Gaza

Oh dear, the Trump fanboys club has been fooled again. When will they learn? I suggest posters read https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce81334je72o Fact Checking Trump's Oval Office confontration with Ramaphos The rows of white crosses along a rural road which Trump claimed were burial sites of over a thousand white farmers were in fact a temporary memorial in protest against the murder of one white farming couple Glen and Vida Rafferty, who were ambushed and shot dead on their premises in 2020. The crosses are no longer there. Out of a total of 26,232 murders in South Africa last year, 44 were killings of people within the farming community and of those, only eight were of farmers. Hardly figures of genocide! The image Trump showed which he claimed was evidence of white farmer killings in South Africa isn't from South Africa - it's actually from a report about women being killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo!

An Italian doctor based in the UK but working in a Gaza hospital describes what life is like at present. An extract below: Dr Roggio, who has been working 12-hour shifts at Nasser hospital treating 10 to 12 people every day, described working with severely malnourished patients and having limited antibiotics. “All the patients we treat are severely malnourished and this is a problem for us plastic surgeons, because all the wounds are not going to heal,” she said. “If the patient is not on adequate nutrition, the infection rate is really high.” UK surgeon treating patients in Gaza warzone says population ‘at its last limit’

Ireland’s deputy premier has accused the Israeli government of “genocidal activity” in Gaza. Tanaiste Simon Harris said it was “clear” that Israel wants to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip as part of what he said was “a consistent pattern of war crimes”. He said the world had “not done enough” to put pressure on Israel to change course, and said he would look to draft a Bill that would ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Ireland’s deputy premier accuses Israel of ‘genocidal activity’ in Gaza

Russian officials say they intercepted a major Ukrainian drone attack overnight into May 22, with 105 drones reportedly shot down over 11 Russian regions, including 35 aimed at Moscow. The strike is being described as one of the largest Ukrainian drone assaults in recent weeks, coming just one day after an attack on a Russian semiconductor plant tied to missile and aircraft production As the drones approached the capital, all four of Moscow’s international airports — Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky — were temporarily shut down. Mass Drone Strike Targets Moscow, Russian Airports Shut Down

Trouble at t' mill. Eh up, these boys of Trump just can't get along. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent repeatedly shouted “F*** you!” at Elon Musk during a nasty West Wing brawl that unfolded within earshot of President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, according to a report. The escalating verbal dispute through the West Wing began because Musk had attempted to select Gary Shapley to lead the IRS – without first getting Bessent’s approval. In response to his profanity-laced outburst, Musk began to taunt Bessent, calling him a "Soros agent" and accusing him of having run "a failed hedge fund.” Bessent shouted profanities at a goading Elon Musk in West Wing after Trump told warring pair to ‘have at it’

Speaking to the Israeli public radio station Reshet Bet, Golan — a former general — said Israel was becoming a pariah state and cautioned that “a sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set for itself the goals of expelling a population.” After the outcry, he said he was referring to the conduct of Israel’s far-right government in his remarks, not of its soldiers. Israeli politician critiques the Gaza war's toll on Palestinians and sparks an outcry

Trump couldn't handle reporters' questions as usual. Talk about thin skinned. During a bilateral meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump did not hold back when NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander pressed him on his refugee policy. Alexander asked: "Mr. President, you’ve welcomed white Afrikaner refugees here, can you explain to Americans why it’s appropriate to welcome white Afrikaans here when other refugees like Afghans, Venezuelans, Haitians have all had their protective status revoked?" Trump snapped back and told the NBC reporter, "Well, this is a group, NBC, that is truly fake news. They ask a lot of questions in a very pointed way. They’re not questions, they’re statements." Donald Trump Melts Down as He Hurls Insults at Reporters Come on Mr Trump, admit it. You can't answer the question, as usual!

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told the U.K. Parliament Tuesday that "opposing the expansion of a war that has killed thousands of children is not rewarding Hamas." He called Israel's aid blockade "cruel and indefensible" and said "the world is judging" Netanyahu's government. Israeli opposition lawmaker Yair Golan told Israeli public radio Tuesday that unless it starts "behaving like a sane country" again, "Israel is on the path to becoming a pariah state." Israel's Western allies pull back amid Gaza escalation

Donald Trump has ambushed South Africa's president during a White House meeting by playing a video purportedly showing evidence of a "genocide" of white people in the African country. The US president, who was hosting leader Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, said the footage showed the graves of thousands of white farmers. After an initial friendly chat where Mr Trump complimented South African golfers in the room, a montage of videos was played as Mr Ramaphosa sat quietly and mostly expressionless. Trump ambushes South African president at White House meeting

A British doctor working in Gaza has described it as a "slaughterhouse" as Israel intensifies its attacks on the enclave. Surgeon Tom Potokar compared the situation in Khan Younis to Stalingrad due to the "massive extent of destruction." "Because of the blockade, there's so little stuff getting in. There's no food getting in, so people are starving. There's very little medical supplies coming in," he added. British surgeon in Gaza compares Palestine to ‘slaughterhouse’ as Israel intensifies its attacks

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has written to Sir Keir to express her “deep concern regarding the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza”. She said she acknowledged the joint statement issued by the British, French and Canadian governments, but said there is now an “urgent responsibility on world leaders to take serious action”. “We need an immediate and meaningful escalation in political and economic sanctions to pressure Israel to halt its military operations and comply with international humanitarian law,” she said. Starmer pressed to ‘impose the strongest possible sanctions on Israel’

Let's see, so far the British PM and Foreign Minister, Spanish PM, Canadian PN and French President have criticised Israel's actions in Gaza strongly. Thousands of demonstrators marched through London last weekend and The Hague. Israel's actions of mass bombings resulting in huge civilian casualties, plus the seemingly deliberate policy of starvation under Netanayu, has resulted in Israel's reputation taking a nosedive. Once seen as a civilised nation, with respect earned as a nation born from the Holocaust, it is now seen as no better than Hamas, brutal and merciless.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appealed for Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza strip, calling the situation in the Palestinian enclave "yet more worrying and saddening". "I renew my appeal … to allow for the entry of fair humanitarian help and to bring to an end the hostilities, the high price of which is paid by children, the elderly and the sick," the pope said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square. Pope Leo appeals for Israel to allow humanitarian aid in Gaza