- The IDF Damages Tehran's Golestan Palace: 'It's Like Striking the Taj Mahal' Haaretz
- World Heritage Sites Hit in Airstrikes on Iran The New York Times
- Dismay as ancient heritage sites across Iran damaged in US-Israel bombing The Guardian
- UNESCO fears for fate of historical sites during Iran war Reuters
- The World’s Shared Past Under Threat: Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iran Military.com
Ukraine says it has hit Russian ‘missile component’ plant
Russia says the attack hit civilians and could not have been carried out without British help.
Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr
Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy
New details are leading experts to fear that an “unethical” vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is the “prototype” for studies under Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the US department of health and human services (HHS) and longtime vaccine critic.
At the center of US vaccine policy is an unlikely set of Danish researchers whose work on the health effects of vaccines has been called into question. The study in Guinea-Bissau would have looked at the overall health effects of giving hepatitis B vaccines by only vaccinating half of the newborns in the study at birth despite an 18% prevalence rate in adults of the illness, which can lead to serious and sometimes fatal health consequences.
Continue reading...Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea FC sale cash may be under investigation as ‘proceeds of crime’
Documents filed at Companies House over 2022 deal could complicate row with UK over how money will be used
Jersey authorities may be investigating whether cash raised by Roman Abramovich’s 2022 sale of Chelsea FC amounts to the proceeds of crime, according to documents filed at Companies House on Wednesday, potentially complicating a row with the UK government over how the money will be used.
Accounts for Fordstam Ltd, the company through which the billionaire Russian oligarch owned Chelsea, show that the proceeds of the sale – currently frozen and gathering interest in a Barclays Bank account – have risen to £2.4bn.
Continue reading...Mugabe’s son drops bail request – what has happened to the family after losing power
Bellarmine Mugabe will negotiate a plea deal after being accused of attempted murder and other charges in South Africa.
India’s top court allows removal of life support of man in vegetative state
Harish Rana has been in a vegetative state since 2013, when he fell from a balcony and suffered head injuries.
ICC rejects bias claims from stranded South Africa, West Indies cricketers
Frustrated players say they were left in the dark for days over their travel while England flew out within two days.
‘Titanic’ Trump-Epstein statue appears in Washington DC
A statue was placed in Washington DC depicting US President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Russia kills two in Ukraine’s Kharkiv; war grinds on, focus on Middle East
At least seven injured in the northeastern city of Kharkiv after a drone hit a 'civilian enterprise', officials say.
Video: North Korea conducts cruise missile test for destroyer
Cruise missiles were seen launching into the sky as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw naval tests.
SA Liberals stand by candidate who said homosexuality opens up ‘demonic realms’
Carston Woodhouse, running for Wright in Adelaide’s north, also claimed gender transitioning is an ‘illusion’
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The South Australian Liberal party is standing by an election candidate who said same-sex marriage is not real, homosexuality can open up “demonic realms” and gender transitioning is an “illusion”.
Carston Woodhouse is running for the seat of Wright in Adelaide’s north in the state’s upcoming elections, with early voting beginning on Saturday.
Continue reading...Europe’s hard right fractures over US-Israel war on Iran
Far-right forces are split over nationalism, foreign policy and ties to US President Donald Trump.
War In Iran Is Creating a Fertilizer Crisis Like Never Before – Bloomberg
- War In Iran Is Creating a Fertilizer Crisis Like Never Before Bloomberg
- Food prices could rise as Iran conflict disrupts fertilizer supply chain CNBC
- War in Iran Could Lead to Food Shortages in Region, Experts Warn The New York Times
- Fuel and fertilizer price spikes leave Texas farmers under pressure NewsNation
- The war in Iran could plunge the world into hunger grist.org
Al Jazeera reports from Israeli bombing of Beirut apartment block
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building in central Beirut.
Damage caused to buildings in Tehran following US-Israeli strikes
Video shows the destruction caused to buildings in Iran’s capital after a reported strike near Mehrabad airport.
Israel pounds Lebanon, targets residential building in central Beirut
The strike in a densely populated area appears to be another attempted assassination, with no information yet on target.
Israeli strikes hit Beirut suburbs
This is the moment an Israeli air attack hit a residential area in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Iran fires missiles, drones at Gulf nations as ship hit in Strait of Hormuz
Tehran keeps up daily pressure as UNSC readies vote on GCC bid urging Iran to halt attacks on neighbours.
Iran war: What is happening on day 12 of US-Israel attacks?
Iran says more than 1,300 civilians have been killed and nearly 10,000 civilian sites have been hit by Israel and US.
From New Zealand to Orkney: Why we brought this classic car half way round the world
Dutchman Hans Compter travelled around the world to deliver the Austin to Cathleen Hourie in Orkney.