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The strange case of Epstein cellmate and quadruple murderer Nicholas Tartaglione
NEWS | 19 May 2026
View image in fullscreen Jeffrey Epstein, in a 2017 photo, provided by the New York state sex offender registry. “There were some unsubstantiated allegations that he had assaulted Epstein when Epstein tried to kill himself the first time. Mark Epstein, Epstein’s younger brother, who has long maintained Epstein was murdered in his cell, has claimed the note is a forgery. He also pointed out, “If I wanted to hurt Jeffrey Epstein, I could have hurt Jeffrey Epstein. I didn’t hurt Jeffrey Epstein.

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Five people, including two suspects, killed in shooting at San Diego’s largest mosque
NEWS | 19 May 2026
Three people were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, California, in what authorities said was being investigated as a hate crime. The shooting occurred shortly before midday prayer at the Islamic Center, located in the Clairemont area of San Diego. The ICSD is the largest mosque in San Diego county. “This is every community’s worst nightmare,” said Scott Wahl, the San Diego police chief. “The threat currently has been addressed, children are safe and that is a good thing,” said Todd Gloria, the San Diego mayor, at a press conference Monday afternoon.

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Middle East crisis live: Trump claims ‘very good chance’ of deal to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear weapon
NEWS | 19 May 2026
From 3h ago 18.05 EDT Trump says US will be 'probably satisfied' if Iran agrees to no nuclear weapons Donald Trump has said the US would be “probably satisfied” if it could reach an agreement with Iran that prevents Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Share Updated at 20.15 EDT1h ago 19.33 EDT Oil prices and stock markets worldwide swung through a shaky Monday with uncertainty about what will happen with the Iran war. Contentious issues around Iran’s nuclear programme and uranium enrichment would be deferred to later rounds of talks, the source said. “This Deal will include, importantly, NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN!” he claimed. Whilst authorities confirmed that safety levels were unaffected and no radioactive material was released, it came at an extremely tense moment in the sixth week of a ceasefire in the Iran war.

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Trump claims planned attack on Iran postponed after Tehran makes new proposal to end war
NEWS | 19 May 2026
The announcement came as Iran’s foreign military spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, claimed Pakistan has shared Tehran’s latest proposal with the US. Axios reported that Trump was expected to meet national security advisers on Tuesday to discuss options for resuming military action. View image in fullscreen Trump says he has paused a planned military attack so peace talks with Iran can continue. Rights groups have said that since the start of the war, Iran has executed 26 men seen as “political prisoners” – 14 charged over January protests, one over 2022 demonstrations, and 11 accused of links to banned opposition groups. HRANA said it had documented at least 3,636 fatalities, including 1,701 civilians, due to US-Israeli attacks on Iran in the war.

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Free up fertiliser supplies to avert global food crisis, Yvette Cooper urges
NEWS | 19 May 2026
Global fertiliser supplies must be freed up within weeks to avoid disaster, with harvests suffering and food prices rising, the UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said. “The world is sleepwalking into a global food crisis,” Cooper said. “This crisis is affecting developed and developing countries, the private and public sectors alike,” she said. The World Food Programme estimates that almost 45 million more people could fall into acute food insecurity if the Iran conflict does not end by the middle of this year. UK aid cuts – set to be the steepest of any G7 country this year – also risk deepening global instability and inequalities.

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‘Disposable’ operatives for hire are a new menace for western countries
NEWS | 19 May 2026
Their new operatives might be less capable than their predecessors but are easier to find in significant numbers. In recent Iranian attacks in Europe paltry payments have been offered for crimes that could earn a convicted offender decades in prison. Another $7,000 was to follow if attacks on a synagogue and two Jewish community centres in the US had gone ahead – and been recorded. Outside western Europe and the US, Iranian secret services or their proxies often look for recruits in communities where some “baseline sympathy” might exist. In western Europe and the US, this is harder.

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‘It’s heartbreaking’: panic in eastern DRC over return of Ebola
NEWS | 19 May 2026
“We’re stunned by the resurgence of Ebola in our region,” said Dieudonné Lossadekana, a resident of Bunia city, where the first suspected case was reported. Heather Kerr, the DRC country director at the International Rescue Committee, said the conflict in the region made containing the Ebola outbreak “all the harder”. First identified in 1976 in what is now the DRC, Ebola is a highly contagious and often fatal viral disease that affects humans and non-human primates. This is the 17th Ebola outbreak in the DRC. In Ituri, authorities have to address enduring stigma and misconceptions and rumours associated with Ebola in fighting the disease, just as with past outbreaks.

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US says American contracted Ebola in Congo as CDC announces new travel screening measures
NEWS | 19 May 2026
There are about 25 people working in the US office in DRC, and the CDC is sending another person from Atlanta, Georgia. The CDC said it assessed the immediate risk to the general US public as low, “but we will continue to evaluate the evolving situation and may adjust public health measures as additional information becomes available”. That area was the location of the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, which ran from 2018 to 2020, involving 3,470 cases and 2,287 deaths. The Ebola outbreak comes less than two weeks since an outbreak of the rat-borne hantavirus abroad cruise ship MV Hondius required 16 Americans to be flown to a medical facility in Nebraska. They probably contracted it from someone brought in for care, indicating that the outbreak had been circulating for some time.

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Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts
NEWS | 19 May 2026
The GPMB is a group of experts established in 2018 by the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) after the first large scale Ebola outbreak in west Africa and just before Covid-19. The WHO will host an urgent scientific consultation on Friday, bringing together top experts to collate what is known about the virus and where research and development of vaccines, tests and medicines should be focused. But the world is “moving backwards” on measures such as ensuring equitable access to vaccines, tests and treatments, it found. During recent mpox outbreaks, vaccines took almost two years to reach affected countries in Africa, which is even slower than the 17 months it took for Covid-19 vaccines to be distributed. Photograph: Getty“Political leaders, industry and civil society can still change the trajectory of global preparedness – if they turn their commitments into measurable progress before the next crisis strikes,” she said.

Today:
Cuba warns US of ‘bloodbath’ if military action follows drone claims
NEWS | 19 May 2026
Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has warned that any US military action against his country would lead to a “bloodbath” with incalculable consequences for regional peace and stability. “Cuba does not represent a threat,” Díaz-Canel said in a post on X. The foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, in a separate post, said Cuba, “like every nation in the world”, has the right to legitimate self-defense against external aggression under the UN charter and international law. He also said those seeking to attack Cuba use false pretexts to justify it. In recent weeks, fuel has run out and electricity is often available for only an hour or two a day.

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Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk
NEWS | 19 May 2026
“Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality. There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. None of Musk, Altman or Brockman were present in court for the verdict. Musk, Altman, Brockman and the Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, all gave testimony in the case, at times facing combative cross-examinations in the courtroom. Microsoft, which Musk accused in his lawsuit of aiding and abetting Altman, was also found not liable in the jury’s verdict.

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Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder
NEWS | 19 May 2026
In the first major text of his papacy, Pope Leo will address the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. The encyclical will address “the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence”, the Vatican said on Monday. Leo is expected to consider how AI is affecting workers’ rights while lamenting its use in warfare. “The fact that Leo signed the document on the same date as Leo XIII signed his encyclical is significant,” said Vreede. “Like Pope Francis, Leo will likely raise concern about the dignity of work and the need to ensure that technological advancements don’t override the dignity of workers and their rights.

Current Events:
Experts locate bodies of four missing Italian divers inside Maldives cave
NEWS | 19 May 2026
Rescuers have located the bodies of four Italian divers deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives, four days after they were reported missing. “As was previously thought, the four bodies were found inside the cave, not only inside the cave but well inside the cave into the third segment of the cave, which is the largest part,” said Ahmed Shaam, a Maldives government spokesperson. The recreational diving limit in the Maldives is 30 metres. “What we didn’t know was that it was cave diving,” Shareef said. Three Finnish divers, experts in deep and cave diving, arrived in the Maldives on Sunday.

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Greenlanders are not ‘experimental subjects’, says minister as she decries US doctor’s visit
NEWS | 19 May 2026
Greenland’s government has criticised the arrival of a US doctor in Nuuk alongside Donald Trump’s special envoy, Jeff Landry, saying that Greenlanders are not “experimental subjects”. Greenland’s health minister, Anna Wangenheim, immediately condemned his presence, describing it as “deeply problematic”. “Greenlanders are not experimental subjects in a geopolitical project. Healthcare is a particularly sensitive subject in Greenland after Danish doctors’ past abuses of local people. Last year Mette Frederiksen, who was then the Danish prime minister and is now acting prime minister amid ongoing coalition talks, issued an official apology to victims of the intrauterine device (IUD) scandal and announced a reconciliation fund.