Chaotic week in which enforcer of ‘war on drugs’ flees senate building leaves government looking ‘incompetent’

The wanted man outran security agents, rallied protesters and even serenaded the media with a military hymn. Then, after a sudden exchange of gunfire, the Philippines’ most controversial lawmaker slipped out of the heavily guarded senate building in the middle of the night.

Senator Ronald dela Rosa, who is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity, is now nowhere to be seen.

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Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi appeared in US federal court to face six terrorism-related charges

The US justice department has arrested and charged an Iraqi national accused of involvement in nearly 20 alleged terror attacks and attempted attacks across the US and Europe.

The wave of violence attributed to Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi has caused huge concern in many European countries but especially the UK, where Jewish community centres, charities, synagogues and other sites have been targeted in recent weeks.

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"As Kalamazoo's manufacturing economy began to surge into high gear after the U.S. Civil War, one apparel merchant strove to corner the market on menswear...By the 1910s and 1920s, KPC was widely known for their line of Westchester slacks and 'Plus Four' golf knickers. The company was the first to employ airplanes to transport their pants in 1927...A year after their centennial, the Kalamazoo Pant Company was dissolved.." By 1999 one store remained, closing a few years later.
Kalamazoo Pant Company: From Overalls to the 'Kazoo Pant'

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15 May, Nakba Day, commemorates the Nakba—the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from Palestine in 1948-1949. Israeli paramilitaries destroyed more than 400 villages, poisoned their wells, and massacred their inhabitants. Palestinians, both those remaining in Palestine and those in diaspora, marked 78 years of displacement today.

Many scholars, as well as Palestinians themselves, to conceptualize the Nakba not as a single period in time, but as an ongoing experience of dispossession. More than half of the world's eight million Palestinians are stateless refugees. The genocide in Gaza continues, as does ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, where settlers regularly erect barbed wire to prevent Palestinian children from going to school, murder families in cold blood, and destroy villages and farms, with the full support of the IDF. (The post title is from Edward Said's Reflections on Exile and Other Essays)

Google has confirmed it is testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail accounts, with users able to unlock the standard 15GB by adding a phone number. Android Authority reports: While the company didn't mention which regions are impacted, user reports from yesterday were mostly from African countries. That said, if Google's tests prove successful, this could possibly become the norm for new sign-ups in more regions. The company could be testing ways to discourage users from creating multiple Gmail accounts to access free cloud storage. However, if you already have a Gmail account with 15GB free storage, it shouldn't be impacted by this change.

The language on Google's support page mentions "up to 15GB of storage." However, it's a recent change. An archived version of the support page from February did not use the words "up to." Whether the test has been running since early March or Google updated its language before it ever started the test, it's evident that the company could roll out the change globally as well.

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Oud-minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert wordt na twee woelige jaren als VN-gezant in Libanon ondersecretaris-generaal voor Veiligheid en Beveiliging bij de Verenigde Naties.