- Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza BBC.com
- Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks CNN
- LIVE: Israel continues attacks on Gaza on second day of Eid al-Fitr Al Jazeera English
- Red Cross federation ‘outraged’ at deaths of Red Crescent medics in Gaza The Guardian
- Bodies of 8 Red Crescent medics found a week after Israeli soldiers fired at ambulances CBS News
Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza
The ambulance team came under fire last Sunday in what Hamas said was an Israeli military attack.
Ben Roberts-Smith demands defamation retrial citing alleged recording of Nine investigative journalist
Federal court hears Nick McKenzie allegedly told a witness that Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife and her friend were ‘actively briefing us on his legal strategy’
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Ben Roberts-Smith has argued his case should be retried because there was a “miscarriage of justice” caused by the alleged “misconduct” of Nick McKenzie, the Nine journalist whom Roberts-Smith unsuccessfully sued for defamation.
In an interlocutory application, published by the federal court in Sydney on Monday, Roberts-Smith claimed that McKenzie “engaged in wilful misconduct in the proceedings by improperly and unlawfully obtaining and retaining information concerning [Roberts-Smith’s] legal strategy concerning the trial that was confidential and privileged”.
Continue reading...Greenland’s new PM rejects Trump’s latest threat: ‘We do not belong to anyone else’
Newly sworn in Jens-Frederik Nielsen says ‘Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that’
The US will not get Greenland, its new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has said in response to Donald Trump’s latest statements that he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country.
“President Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future,” Nielsen said.
Continue reading...German space rocket explodes seconds into test flight – DW (English)
- German space rocket explodes seconds into test flight DW (English)
- Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway BBC.com
- Spectrum takes flight and clears the launch pad European Space Agency
- Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe The New York Times
- Isar Aerospace completes first orbital launch vehicle test flight in Norway Euronews
Baulkham Hills stabbing: woman arrested and three children in hospital after alleged attack in Sydney suburb
Two girls, boy in stable condition and 46-year-old woman under guard in hospital after alleged attack in Baulkham Hills
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A mother has been arrested after she allegedly stabbed her three children multiple times in their home in Sydney’s north-west.
New South Wales police Det Supt Naomi Moore said on Monday that the children’s father woke to yells in their Baulkham Hills home, and secured the kitchen knife from his partner.
Continue reading...Trump ‘very angry’ with Putin over ceasefire negotiations
It marks the first time Trump has seriously threatened Russia with consequences for dragging its feet in Ukraine ceasefire negotiations.
Secret filming reveals brazen tactics of UK immigration scammers
An undercover BBC investigation exposes how rogue agents are exploiting a UK visa scheme.
Secret filming reveals brazen tactics of immigration scammers
An undercover BBC investigation exposes how rogue agents are exploiting a UK visa scheme.
Some progress made in recovering U.S. Army soldiers submerged in Lithuanian swamp – NPR
- Some progress made in recovering U.S. Army soldiers submerged in Lithuanian swamp NPR
- US military working to recover 70 ton vehicle from Lithuanian swamp as 4 Army soldiers remain missing Fox News
- Lithuania recovers US army vehicle, soldiers' fate unknown DW (English)
- US armored vehicle missing in Lithuania pulled from swamp but fate of 4 soldiers is still unknown ABC News
- PRESS RELEASE — Recovery Operations in Lithuania March 30 Update U.S. Army Europe
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians face power outages due to ice storm
More than 300,000 without power as storm, expected to continue overnight, pummels Ottawa, Quebec and Ontario
More than 300,000 Canadians faced power outages in parts of Ontario on Sunday as an ice storm pummeled the region over the weekend, according to electricity provider Hydro One.
Environment Canada issued winter storm warnings for freezing rain in Ottawa, parts of Quebec and Ontario, with the risk of snow mixed with or transitioning to ice pellets expected to continue until Monday morning in some regions.
Continue reading...Trump wants India to buy US corn – but here’s why it probably won’t
India feeds over a billion people, yet low yields and poor infrastructure keep agriculture lagging.
Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who disappeared in London in 2008
Alexander Sloley was a 16-year-old college student when he went missing from Islington
Police seeking information about a 33-year-old man who disappeared 17 years ago have offered a £10,000 reward.
Alexander Sloley was 16 and studying accountancy at college when he disappeared from Islington, north London, in August 2008. His family and friends have not heard from him since, despite issuing an efit of what he might look like in his late 20s when the police investigation was reopened in 2019.
Continue reading...Trump insists he is ‘not joking’ about seeking a third term as president
US President Donald Trump hints at exploring paths to a third term despite constitutional limits.
Israeli air attacks kill dozens in Gaza as Palestinians mark Eid al-Fitr
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeats a demand for Hamas to disarm and for its leaders to leave Gaza.
What’s happening to US-European relations?
There are divisions over NATO, the future of Greenland, trade and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House
In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as president
Donald Trump has said there are “methods” – if not “plans” – to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms.
In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Trump was asked about his trying to stay in office beyond his second presidency, a specter he has repeatedly raised while sometimes claiming he is just joking.
Continue reading...Decision day in court for Marine Le Pen’s French presidential hopes
Accused of misusing EU funds, Monday's verdict could determine whether the far-right National Rally leader can run again.
‘The US won’t get that’: Greenland rejects Trump’s claim over the territory
Greenlandic PM responds to Trump’s claims over Greenland, asserting that the territory will decide its own future.
Volunteer rescuers race to find survivors two days after Myanmar earthquake
Red Cross says devastation is of a level not seen in Asia for over a century as more than 1,700 people killed
Rescue volunteers, many of them poorly equipped local people, raced to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings across central Myanmar, two days after a huge earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.
Red Cross officials said Myanmar was facing “a level of devastation that hasn’t been seen over a century in Asia”, after a 7.7-magnitude quake struck near the centre of the country on Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock.
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