- Robot Emerges From Fukushima With a First Clue Newser
- TEPCO retrieves tiny melted fuel from disaster-hit Fukushima reactor Kyodo News Plus
- Japan electric company removes small debris from Fukushima nuclear plant Yahoo! Voices
- A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor The Associated Press
- Robot Removes First Bit Of Fukushima's Nuclear Fuel Debris – Just 880 Tons More To Go IFLScience
Father of Sara Sharif tells court of his daughter’s final moments
Taxi driver among three on trial over death of 10-year-old says she briefly opened her eyes and asked for water before dying in his arms
The father of Sara Sharif wept as he told how his limp daughter briefly opened her eyes and asked for water before dying in his arms, a court has heard.
Urfan Sharif said his wife, Beinash Batool, did not call an ambulance in Sara’s final moments, but had said the 10-year-old was being “dramatic and pretending”.
Continue reading...Trump to revive ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran by supporting sanctions, Israeli strike on nuclear sites – New York Post
- Trump to revive ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran by supporting sanctions, Israeli strike on nuclear sites New York Post
- Trump to Renew ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign Against Iran - WSJ The Wall Street Journal
- Trump poised to unwind Biden's rewiring of global energy trade Middle East Eye
- Pro-Israel leaders encouraged by Brian Hook’s role on State Department transition team Jewish Insider
- Trump plans to renew 'maximum pressure' sanctions on Iran The Jerusalem Post
At least 30 reported killed in weeks of post-vote violence in Mozambique
Soldiers deployed as Mozambicans protest the Frelimo party, which has held on to power for nearly half a century.
Optimistic EU climate chief: We will talk to Trump – POLITICO Europe
- Optimistic EU climate chief: We will talk to Trump POLITICO Europe
- Why have so many world leaders dropped out of COP29 climate talks? Euronews
- Von der Leyen’s Cop29 absence sends ‘fatal signal’, say watchers The Guardian
- Germany’s Scholz to skip COP29 as tensions rise in Europe over climate Semafor
- EU to support continued global climate action and push for ambitious finance and investment goals at COP29 PubAffairs Bruxelles
Outrage against Canada’s Marineland theme park after fifth beluga dies
Most recent fatality marks 17th beluga to die at Niagara Falls, Ontario, aquarium since 2019
A fifth beluga has died at Canada’s Marineland, as questions mount over the future of both the controversial theme park and one of the world’s largest populations of captive whales.
The most recent fatality marks the 17th beluga to die at the Niagara Falls aquarium since 2019.
Continue reading...‘They shouted Jewish, IDF’: Israeli football fans describe attack in Amsterdam
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans say they were beaten and kicked by gangs of young men.
Black people across US receive racist text messages after Trump’s win
FBI investigating after people report texts saying they were selected to pick cotton and go to nearest plantation
Just hours after Donald Trump’s election win on Tuesday, Black people across the US reported receiving racist text messages telling them that they had been “selected” to pick cotton and needed to report to “the nearest plantation”. While the texts, some of which were signed “a Trump supporter”, varied in detail, they all conveyed the same essential message about being selected to pick cotton. Some of the messages refer to the recipients by name.
A spokesperson for the president-elect told CNN that his “campaign has absolutely nothing to do with these text messages”. It is not yet clear who is behind the messages, nor is there a comprehensive list of the people to whom the messages were sent, but social media posts indicate that the messages are widespread.
Continue reading...Trump says vow to deport millions of undocumented people has ‘no price tag’
President-elect’s plan to quash undocumented migration through mass deportations met with Democratic resistance
Donald Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants has no “price tag”, the president-elect has said, setting the scene for a confrontation between his incoming administration and Democratic officials across the US.
As Democratic state governors and mayors signalled their determination to resist the most extreme elements of his agenda, Trump promised that his campaign pledge to expel an estimated 11 million people – though Trump himself has given a figure as high as 21 million – would be implemented come what may.
Continue reading...Trump allies say Project 2025 is on as Heritage affiliates vie for cabinet posts
Clear links to president-elect and rightwing document emerge after his attempts to distance himself from project
Cheerleaders for Donald Trump have gleefully raised the prospect of the extremist Project 2025 policy blueprint being implemented by the new administration as they taunted Democrats after the Republicans’ victory over Kamala Harris.
Project 2025 is an initiative coordinated by the rightwing Heritage Foundation and presented to the American public in the form of the Mandate, a 900-plus page policy plan. Proposals for a second Trump administration include political purges of the federal government and attacks on minority rights and environmental protections among many other hard-right policy ideas.
Continue reading...Beyoncé leads Grammy award nominations with 11 nods
The star is out in front with multiple genre recognition for Cowboy Carter while Kendrick Lamar, Charli xcx, Post Malone and Billie Eilish follow
Beyoncé is out in front with the nominations for the 67th Grammy awards in what promises to be another female-heavy year.
The star has scored 11 nods for her country album Cowboy Carter with recognition in the country, pop and Americana categories. It’s the biggest number of nominations she has received in a single year and she now holds the joint record of most-nominated artist ever alongside her husband, Jay-Z.
Continue reading...‘Was I drugged and raped? I’ll never know’: partners of accused share fears at Pelicot trial
Some ex-girlfriends of accused men tell court of burden of not knowing if they had been sedated and molested in past
Giving evidence in Avignon’s criminal court, a softly spoken woman in her 30s pondered the question if the medication she took as part of managing her multiple sclerosis might have allowed her ex-partner, Cédric G, to sexually abuse her without her knowledge. She described their relationship as “lies, from start to finish”.
Cédric G, 50, a software technician who used to run a record shop in Avignon, looked on from behind the glass-screened dock in the court. He is one of 51 men on trial over the rape of Gisèle Pelicot, whose then husband, Dominique Pelicot, crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her food and invited dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious over a nine-year period from 2011 to 2020 in the village of Mazan in Provence.
Continue reading...Israel taps staunch supporter of illegal settlements as ambassador to US
Yechiel Leiter's selection comes days after Trump election victory and presages expected US-Israel policy shift.
‘Africa in a glass’: Abidjan cocktail week mixes local flavours for global palates
Ivory Coast drinks festival aims to champion and change perceptions of alcohol made in the region
At an event in Abidjan in late October, Alexandre Quest Bede noticed someone staring at him. Then the stranger walked up to him with a T-shirt and asked for an autograph.
“He pointed at me excitedly and said: ‘You’re Monsieur Gnamakou, I know you from Instagram!’” recalls Bede at the poolside bar of Bissa, a boutique hotel in the upmarket Deux Plateaux neighbourhood on the eve of Abidjan cocktail week.
Continue reading...Nearly 70% of verified Gaza war dead women and children, UN rights office says – Reuters
- Nearly 70% of verified Gaza war dead women and children, UN rights office says Reuters
- There must be “due reckoning” for horrific violations, possible atrocity crimes in Gaza – UN Human Rights Chief OHCHR
- Nearly 70% of verified deaths in Gaza are women and children, UN report finds Axios
- Close to 70 percent of Gaza war fatalities children, women: UN Human Rights Office The Hill
- UN calls for ‘reckoning’ as report shows 70% of Gaza dead children, women Al Jazeera English
Two million people at risk of starvation in Myanmar’s Rakhine: UN
UNDP says without urgent action, 95 percent of the population will regress into survival mode.
Israeli football fans clash with protesters in Amsterdam
Dozens of people arrested in Amsterdam after clashes between Israeli football fans and Palestine solidarity protesters.
Party Whose Leader Is Known for Antisemitism to Join Lithuanian Government – The New York Times
- Party Whose Leader Is Known for Antisemitism to Join Lithuanian Government The New York Times
- Lithuanian Jewish Leaders Want Party in Antisemitism Row Blocked Bloomberg
- Populists Set To Join New Lithuanian Coalition Barron's
- Lithuania government to include party whose leader is on trial for antisemitism The Jerusalem Post
- US senate gives frosty warning to Lithuania’s new governing party on its coalition talks TVP World
Video. Art installation marks Berlin Wall’s 35th anniversary – Euronews
- Video. Art installation marks Berlin Wall's 35th anniversary Euronews
- 35 years after the Berlin Wall opened, fragments of East Germany’s border remain The Associated Press
- The Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago. Young east Germans fall for relics of the time. The Christian Science Monitor
- Divided Berlin: Then-And-Now Photos Show Where The Wall Stood Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- Taking the Risk of Freedom | George Weigel First Things
China unveils 10tn yuan support for debt-stricken local government
Cash stops short of hoped-for ‘bazooka option’, with critics calling it ‘an accounting exercise’ that will not bolster growth
China has announced 10tn yuan in debt support for local governments and other economic measures, but stopped short of the “bazooka” stimulus package that many analysts had expected.
The fiscal package included raising debt ceilings for local governments by 6tn yuan (£646bn) over three years, so they could replace hidden debt, which authorities said stood at 14.3tn yuan by the end of 2023.
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