Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has moved to have truckloads of garbage that officials say were illegally shipped to the Philippines years ago be forcibly shipped back to Canada. The Philippines recalled its ambassador and consuls in Canada last week over Ottawa’s failure to comply with a May 15 deadline to take back the garbage.

Germany has granted asylum to two Hong Kong activists. In interviews published on Wednesday, Ray Wong Toi Yeung said he and fellow pro-democracy protester Alan Li Tung Sing were granted asylum last year. Germany’s Interior Ministry, while not giving out the names, confirmed it had granted two people from Hong Kong asylum last year.

The risk of nuclear weapons being used is at its highest since WWII, a senior UN security expert said on Tuesday. Renata Dwan, director of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), said all states with nuclear weapons have nuclear modernization programs underway and the arms control landscape is changing, partly due to strategic competition between China and the US.

Award winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina has died in Nairobi after an illness at the age of 48. Wainaina won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2002 and was best known around the world for his satirical essay How to Write About Africa. Wainaina was also named among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2014 for his gay rights activism.

A woman in a stolen recreational vehicle led authorities on a wild chase in Los Angeles on Tuesday, smashing into cars and a palm tree before finally coming to a halt. The car also had two dogs inside. The woman then got out and ran with a dog following but she was quickly tackled by authorities. At least three people were hurt with minor injuries. Both dogs are safe with animal control.

Alabama Public Television has refused to air an episode of the PBS show Arthur that features a gay wedding. The episode Mr Ratburn and the Special Someone saw Arthur’s teacher - a cartoon rat - come out as gay and marry Patrick the aardvark. Mike McKenzie, director of programming at APT has gone out and said that the station has no plans to air the episode.

British-based chip designer ARM is reportedly planning to suspend business with China’s Huawei to comply with US regulations. ARM has instructed employees to halt ’all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements’ with Huawei and its subsidiaries.

EE will switch on its 5G service in six UK cities on 30 May. The company plans to launch the service in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester. Prices for 5G will start at £54 per month for 10 gigabytes of data. Rival Vodafone plans to launch its 5G service in July.

Reports indicate that the Trump administration is considering Huawei-like sanctions on Chinese video surveillance firm Hikvision. The restrictions would limit Hikvision’s ability to buy US technology and American companies may have to obtain government approval to supply components to the Chinese firm.

Nevada will send a legislation to the governor’s desk that would give the state’s Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular vote. The Nevada Senate passed the legislation by 12-8 on Tuesday, which would include the state in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and allocate its electors to the national popular-vote winner in the next presidential election.

North Korean state media slammed former US VP Joe Biden for criticizing leader Kim Jong Un. They were responding to Biden’s statement at a campaign launch on Saturday where he said, ’Are we a nation that embraces dictators and tyrants like Putin and Kim Jong Un?’. Referring to Biden as a ’fool of low IQ’, media reports said Biden was ’an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being’.

A new Gallup poll released Monday found that 43 per cent of Americans think socialism would be a good thing for the US, while 51 per cent say it would be a bad thing. Gallup’s sample included 1,024 adults. 70 per cent of Democrats said socialism would be good compared to 45 per cent of independents and only 13 per cent of Republicans viewing it positively.

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Qualcomm unlawfully suppressed competition in the market for cellphone chips. The ruling, by District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, also found the chip maker used its dominant position to charge excessive licensing fees. Judge Koh ordered Qualcomm to negotiate or renegotiate its licensing agreements free of unfair practice.

Air China, one of China’s three major state-owned airlines, is joining carriers that are asking Boeing for compensation for the grounding of their 737 Max jetliners following two fatal crashes. The carrier also has asked Boeing for compensation for disruptions due to delays in delivery of new aircraft.

Former CEO of CKE Restaurants Andy Puzder said on Wednesday that the US would emerge victorious in the trade war with China. ’We’ve got over $400 billion of what China exports to us. We’re in a much stronger position’, Puzder said. Puzder added that the US, in the capacity of ’the leader of the free world’, needed to stand up to China.

Some of the biggest names in American footwear have penned a letter to President Trump, asking him to remove shoes from a proposed list of tariffs on China imports. The letter, dated May 20, was posted on the website of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA), and signed by nearly 200 companies. ’Consumer will end up paying more for the product’, the companies reasoned.

The Ethereum Foundation, the non-profit organization promoting the development of the Ethereum (ETH) network, has earmarked $30 million worth of ETH to boost development. Of the sum allocated by the foundation, the bulk will go toward supporting Ethereum 2.0 in the next 12 months. This will include new clients, Plasma technology, privacy solutions, as well as academic outreach.

Galaxy Digital has sold its shares in Block.one, the creator of the EOS blockchain, and received $71.2 million and a 123 per cent return on the realized investment. The outcome is a result of Block.one’s buyback program of 10 per cent of its company shares. Due to the buyback, the company is valued at about $2.3 billion, which is up from about a $40 million valuation in the 2017 seed round.

Bitfinex and Tether are moving to dismiss their ongoing case versus the New York Attorney General (NYAG), according to court filings on May 21. Law firms representing the two companies argue that the New York Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over the alleged misconduct being considered. This is because Bitfinex and Tether are neither operated out of NY nor harmed investors in that state.

Craig Wright, Chief Scientist at nChain and one who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has filed for the copyright registration of the Bitcoin whitepaper and the Bitcoin software. The Bitcoin Whitepaper titled, ’Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,’ was published by Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin in 2008.