“Republican lawmakers — following former President Trump’s lead — are working with a wide range of conservative groups to pull back American support for Ukraine, the Middle East and Europe,” Axios reports.

“Tens of thousands of seemingly hacked files from China’s remote Xinjiang region provide fresh evidence of the abuse of mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs in mass detention camps there, which included a shoot-to-kill policy for escapees,” Bloomberg reports.

“Henry Kissinger has urged the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, warning that it would have disastrous consequences for the long term stability of Europe,” the Telegraph reports.

Said Kissinger: “Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself.”

Nikkei Asia: “While little has changed in the Taliban’s ways between its collapse in 2001 and its stunning return last August, everything has changed for Afghanistan’s women in that time. On May 7, the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice announced a draft law ‘advising’ women and girls to stay at home. If they step out, they are to cover themselves entirely, preferably with a garment that only shows their eyes — essentially, a burqa.”

“If a woman or girl fails to obey this rule, her closest male relative, or as the Taliban would have it, her guardian, will be punished or jailed.”