(2024-05-09). Ben-Gvir tweets Hamas 'loves' Biden as president mulls halting U.S. arms shipments to Israel over Rafah. haaretz.com While Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said Ben-Gvir's tweet endangered 'every IDF soldier and every Israeli citizen', Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said 'we will achieve complete victory in this war despite Biden's pushback'…
(2024-05-09). TikTok Law Is an Attempt to Censor, Not a Warning to Big Tech. scheerpost.com 
By Julianne Tveten / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) As US lawmakers' agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn't sold to a US buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining. Every legislative move targeting TikTok, the story goes, has the potential to inspire …
(2024-05-09). Dramatic footage shows cargo plane's emergency landing at Istanbul airport caught on camera. ptcnews.tv PTC News Desk: A gripping scene unfolded at Istanbul Airport as a cargo aircraft executed an emergency landing after experiencing a malfunction with its front landing gear. The Boeing 767, operated by FedEx Express, was captured in a video circulating on social media, utilizing its rear landing gear before gently lowering its nose with the front part of the fuselage.The aircraft was completing its journey from Paris to Istanbul when the pilots discovered that the front landing gear had failed to deploy, according to reports from the state-run Anadolu Agency.
(2024-05-09). Men or bears? Women's safety debate pops on social media. scmp.com The random hypothetical question has gone viral in recent weeks on social media, provoking a passionate debate about women's perceptions of dangers, particularly around the opposite sex.
(2024-05-09). TikTok to expand e-commerce business into Mexico and major Western European markets amid scrutiny in the US, EU. scmp.com The popular social media platform has started to invite merchants for a beta run of TikTok Shop in Mexico, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
(2024-05-09). Boeing 737 catches fires, skids off runway at Senegal airport, injuring at least 11 people. scmp.com A nighttime video shared on social media showed a plane with the logo of Senegal-based airline Transair standing in grass with a wing covered in fire-suppressing foam.
(2024-05-09). Video of Israeli businessman's murder in Egypt goes viral. newarab.com 
A video has gone viral over the past hours, allegedly showing In 'Shalom' is a Hebrew word idiomatically used to mean "hello" or "goodbye"
Lots of information swirling through social media that hints that Ukraine is going to launch a major attack on Russia targets, using Western long-range missiles, on 7 May, which is inauguration day in Russia. As I mentioned in my chat today with Judge Napolitano, a good friend, whose wife is in Moscow, told me that she has been stopped and searched twice in the last week while running errands in her car. Moscow authorities are on high alert for a potential serious threat. Remains to be seen if this is just nervous worry or reflects solid intelligence that a plot is afoot. | RT reports that Ukraine may start…