This Week In War: 4th week, May 2018

Police are seen at a new pro-abortion rights mural by a graffiti artist collective called 'Subset' in Dublin, May 22, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

4th week, May 2018.

This Week in War:  A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week.  

• UAE connections keep coming up in Mueller's probe of President Donald Trump.

• Irish abortion referendum: voters on both sides prepare to head home.

• Donald Trump has canceled his planned summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

• Israel is pressing the Trump administration to recognize its sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights.

• MH17 downed by Russian military missile system, say investigators.

• US says embassy worker's brain injury in China appears similar to those sustained by diplomats in Cuba 'sonic attacks'.

• Ecuador's indigenous Waorani launch petition to save the Amazon.

• Sudanese teenager Noura Hussein, who was sentenced to death for killing her husband after he allegedly raped her, has filed an appeal. #JusticeforNoura.

• North Korea warns US of 'nuclear showdown’.

• North Korea says they are open to resolving issues with US after Trump scraps summit.

• Saudi Arabia has released 4 women’s rights activists who were among a group arrested last week, a month before a ban on women driving is set to end.

• 2 retired French spies are suspected of passing state secrets to a foreign power.

• Pakistan passes law to align tribal region with rest of country.

• Escalating conflict in the eastern city of Derna, Libya is having a devastating impact on civilians, with humanitarian workers denied access to deliver life-saving assistance.

• Nigerian military raped the women and girls who fled Boko Haram and were starving at their refugee camp.

• Wrapped in the Pakistani flag, Sabika Sheikh's coffin was taken to the funeral service. The funeral of a Pakistani student killed in last week's Texas school shooting has taken place in Karachi.

• Palestinian minister delivers Israel 'war crimes' referral to ICC.