Boris Johnson Attacked By Ostrich In Hilarious Video Shared By His Wife – HuffPost

  1. Boris Johnson Attacked By Ostrich In Hilarious Video Shared By His Wife  HuffPost
  2. Boris Johnson Has Run-In With Feisty Ostrich During Texas Trip  The New York Times
  3. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson attacked by ostrich at Texas wildlife park  The Independent
  4. Ostrich on a war path: former UK prime minister attacked on family holiday  The North West Star
  5. Watch: Boris Johnson attacked by an ostrich  The Telegraph
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Explosive Failure: Watch a German Rocket’s Fiery Crash on Europe’s Historic Space Launch! – The Daily Galaxy

  1. Explosive Failure: Watch a German Rocket's Fiery Crash on Europe's Historic Space Launch!  The Daily Galaxy
  2. Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway  BBC
  3. Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe  The New York Times
  4. Isar Aerospace’s first Spectrum launch fails  SpaceNews
  5. Isar Aerospace's rocket crash a success, 3D printing and drone warefare, Europe’s first high-voltage sea cable network  Interesting Engineering
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‘Unacceptable and deeply concerning’: UK minister condemns Israel’s detention of British MPs – Times of India

  1. 'Unacceptable and deeply concerning': UK minister condemns Israel's detention of British MPs  Times of India
  2. Abtisam Mohamed: It was about censorship, says MP denied entry to Israel  BBC
  3. MPs expelled by Israel receive show of support from Commons colleagues  The Guardian
  4. Britain expresses outrage after Israel prevents 2 lawmakers from visiting the occupied West Bank  AP News
  5. Israel Turns Away 2 British Lawmakers  The New York Times
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Couple who ran Swedish eco-retreat fled leaving behind barrels of human waste

Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk, now in Guatemala, had racked up large tax debt at Stedsans forest retreat

A Danish chef couple who attracted international acclaim with a “forest resort” in Sweden have been tracked down to Guatemala after apparently going on the run from tax authorities, leaving behind 158 barrels of human waste.

Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk founded their purportedly eco-friendly retreat, Stedsans, in Halland, southern Sweden, after claiming to have “felt the call of the wild” in Copenhagen, where they ran a popular rooftop restaurant.

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‘War without limits’: Aid agencies sound the alarm as Israel’s Gaza blockade enters a second month – CNN

  1. ‘War without limits’: Aid agencies sound the alarm as Israel’s Gaza blockade enters a second month  CNN
  2. World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza, top UN officials say  OCHA
  3. Multiple UN agencies call for urgent renewal of ceasefire in Gaza as death toll mounts  Reuters
  4. Humanitarian Situation Update #277 | Gaza Strip  ochaopt.org
  5. More than a million children in the Gaza Strip deprived of lifesaving aid for over one month  Unicef
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Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says – The Guardian

  1. Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says  The Guardian
  2. ‘Dad, help me… we were targeted by the Israelis’: Audio and video capture last moments of aid workers killed in Gaza  CNN
  3. Video Shows Search for Missing Gaza Paramedics Before Israelis Shoot Rescuers  The New York Times
  4. Israeli military walks back account of Gaza medical worker killings  NBC News
  5. Israel kills, lies, and the Western media believe it  Al Jazeera
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MPs expelled by Israel receive show of support from Commons colleagues

Ministers and more than 70 MPs attended photo call with Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed whose travel ban was called unacceptable

Cabinet ministers and more than 70 parliamentarians staged a show of solidarity with two MPs who were detained and barred from entry to Israel in what was the first time British MPs had been banned from the country.

The health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, joined the photocall in Westminster Hall on Monday with the MPs, along with Hamish Falconer and housing minister Rushanara Ali. It was organised by the Rochdale MP Paul Waugh.

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UK politics: Starmer sticks by manifesto pledge not to raise taxes amid tariff turmoil – as it happened

Prime minister says ‘no one is pretending tariffs are good news’ during speech on car industry

In his Times article Keir Starmer describes the Trump tariffs as “the beginning of a new era”. He has been saying this at least since last Thursday, when he spoke about the tariffs at a Q&A with journalists at Labour’s local elections campaign launch. The speech this afternoon is being described as the PM’s most considered response so far to the global economic turmoil generated by the tariffs, but we have already heard quite a lot from Starmer on this topic already, in a Sunday Telegraph article yesterday and in No 10 briefings on the calls he had with world leaders about the situation over the weekend.

Is there a coherent strategy? On the basis of what he has said so far, there are at least five elements in the mix at the moment.

John Ryan is a local hero and we are truly humbled that he has publicly endorsed Reform UK ahead of May’s elections in Doncaster.

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Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says

PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s account

Autopsies conducted on 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil emergency responders who were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza show they were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, which is demanding an international investigation into the attack.

The killings took place in the southern Gaza Strip on 23 March, days into a renewed Israeli offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory, and sparked international condemnation.

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Tories lose one of their biggest donors in major blow to Kemi Badenoch

Exclusive: Richard Harpin pauses donations in move insiders say will result in closure of party’s northern HQ

One of the Conservatives’ biggest donors has stopped funding the party in a move insiders believe will result in the closure of its northern HQ, the Guardian can reveal.

Richard Harpin, the founder of the home repairs business HomeServe, has ended his donations to the Conservatives, according to two Tory sources.

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