- UNICEF calls on the Taliban to lift ban on girls' education as new school year begins in Afghanistan The Associated Press
- As new school year starts in Afghanistan, almost 400,000 more girls deprived of their right to education, bringing total to 2.2 million UNICEF
- A mother’s dreams, a daughter’s fight The Campus
- UN Tells Afghan Rulers: No Peace and Prosperity Until They Reverse Bans on Women and Girls U.S. News & World Report
- Voices of Afghanistan Interview Series: 'We, Afghan girls and women, will call for freedom with every breath' JURIST
Bob Brown urges Greens to punish Labor at election if Albanese amends law to protect salmon farming
PM’s pledge to protect Tasmanian industry will weaken laws already failing to protect natural sites and at-risk species, environmentalists say
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Former Greens leader Bob Brown has urged the minor party not to preference Labor ahead of the Liberal party in Tasmanian seats at the upcoming election if the Albanese government legislates to effectively exempt salmon farming from national environment laws.
Conservationists have sharply criticised Anthony Albanese’s pledge that he will rush through legislation next week to protect the salmon industry in Macquarie Harbour, on the state’s west coast, from the potential results of a long-running legal review.
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Continue reading...Hegseth to fly to the Philippines and Japan in first visit to Asian treaty allies at odds with China – The Associated Press
- Hegseth to fly to the Philippines and Japan in first visit to Asian treaty allies at odds with China The Associated Press
- Pentagon chief to visit Philippines for security talks, envoy says Defense News
- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Travel to Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, and Japan Department of Defense
- Hegseth’s Manila visit ahead of Balikatan signals strong US-Philippines ties South China Morning Post
- Hegseth Skips South Korea Visit as Leadership Vacuum Takes Toll Bloomberg
Why Trump is struggling to secure fast ceasefire in Ukraine
Trump said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. The reality is proving far more difficult.
The obscure Jimmy Lai ruling that exposed the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law
The moves that barred the media mogul’s choice of lawyer are immune from legal challenge, giving the national security committee what one expert called ‘the powers of a police state’
The dwindling freedom in Hong Kong over the past few years has been described as “death by a thousand cuts”. Critics have been jailed, elections have been transformed into “patriots only” affairs, journalists have been harassed and hundreds of thousands of people have left.
This week, an obscure legal development has, in the eyes of some legal experts, inflicted another cut on the city’s once revered legal system.
Continue reading...Melbourne teenager charged with murder after machete attack
Police allege victim, 24, was ambushed by up to 10 men and stabbed to death near Marriott Waters shopping centre on 14 March
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An 18-year-old has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a man by an alleged machete-wielding group amid plans to ban the weapon.
Timothy Leek was stabbed to death near the Marriott Waters shopping centre in Melbourne’s south-east on the night of 14 March.
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Continue reading...Reeves to raise spectre of Liz Truss to persuade Labour MPs to accept cuts
Chancellor to tell party she is making steep cuts to avoid similar fallout to that which followed 2022 mini-budget
Rachel Reeves will raise the spectre of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget in the lead-up to next week’s spring statement as she tries to persuade her Labour colleagues to accept the steepest departmental cuts since austerity.
The chancellor will tell her fractious party she has decided to cut public spending rather than increasing borrowing because of the risk of a similar fallout to that which followed the then prime minister’s disastrous fiscal statement in 2022.
Continue reading...Scientists discover dozens of deep-sea creatures beneath giant iceberg – Interesting Engineering
- Scientists discover dozens of deep-sea creatures beneath giant iceberg Interesting Engineering
- Another giant iceberg breaks free leading to 'amazing' seabed find Oceanographic Magazine
- A huge iceberg broke off Antarctica. What scientists found under it startled them. The Washington Post
- Stunning Antarctic Sea Creatures Discovered after Iceberg Breaks Away Scientific American
- Turns Out, The Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Hiding An Abundant Ecosystem AOL
IAF intercepts Houthi missile that triggered sirens in Jerusalem, surrounding areas – The Jerusalem Post
- IAF intercepts Houthi missile that triggered sirens in Jerusalem, surrounding areas The Jerusalem Post
- Israeli military says it intercepted missile fired from Yemen; Houthis claim responsibility Reuters
- IDF intercepts Houthi missile that triggered sirens across central Israel, Jerusalem The Times of Israel
- Houthis declare Ben-Gurion Airport ‘no longer safe’ after renewed Gaza fighting The Jerusalem Post
- Missiles from Yemen target Israel despite US threats Al Jazeera English
Falconer ‘extremely close’ to catching hawk attacking Hertfordshire villagers
Bird of prey’s violent reign in Flamstead could soon come to an end, according to parish council
It stole two woolly hats from the head of a 91-year-old pensioner. It clawed a jogger’s scalp and left him reeling. It is said to swoop in from behind without making a sound, has a penchant for tall men’s heads and – so far – has evaded capture.
But the violent reign of the Flamstead hawk, which has made men in the Hertfordshire village of Flamstead afraid to go out without covering their heads, may soon be at an end.
Continue reading...Suzanne drives eight hours to get ADHD medicine from a specialist. Australian GPs say they need more prescribing powers
Exclusive: Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners urges Albanese government to increase range of medicines they can prescribe
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Every three months, Suzanne Grobke makes an eight-hour round-trip to access the ADHD medicine her 12-year-old daughter depends on.
“My daughter was diagnosed with ADHD when she was three and we see a paediatrician in Sydney because it was up to a two-year wait to see someone regionally,” she said.
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Continue reading...US to import millions of eggs from Turkey and South Korea to ease prices
A bird flu epidemic has caused egg prices to soar, and projections show they could rise by 41 percent this year.
Dear Daughter: I too feel ugly sometimes
Bollywood actor Kalki Koechlin advises her five-year-old on how to navigate the pressure to appear beautiful.
Extreme day trips: ‘I go abroad then fly home in time for bed’
Extreme day trips are popular on social media but have drawn criticism over environmental concerns.
Victorian Labor’s tough-on-crime turn could mark the beginning of the end for Jacinta Allan
Victorian Labor has faced a ‘crime crisis’ before – but no matter how tough the premier talks on law and order, the Coalition is always willing to go tougher
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It was meant to be the week Jacinta Allan took a firm stance on the “crime crisis”, but it could instead mark the beginning of the end for her government.
It began on Monday with the Victorian premier announcing a new police taskforce, Operation Hawk, which appeared, on the surface, a decisive move to combat corruption on government construction sites.
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Continue reading...Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon
Promise was central plank to space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027
Nasa has dropped its longstanding public commitment to land the first woman and person of color on the moon, in response to Donald Trump’s directives to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices at federal agencies.
The promise was a central plank of the space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027 for the first time since the final Apollo mission in December 1972.
Continue reading...Will recapture of presidential palace change course of Sudan war?
Sudan's army has retaken the presidential palace from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), but what's next after two years of war?
Will recapture of presidential palace change course of Sudan war? – BBC.com
- Will recapture of presidential palace change course of Sudan war? BBC.com
- Sudan’s Army Retakes the Presidential Palace in Khartoum The New York Times
- Sudan's army takes control of the presidential palace, 2 years after war broke out NPR
- Sudanese military says it seized key buildings in Khartoum after retaking the Republican Palace The Hill
- Sudan’s army seizes control of central bank amid steady gains in Khartoum Al Jazeera English
Will recapture of presidential palace change course of Sudan war?
Sudan's army has retaken the presidential palace from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), but what's next after two years of war?
German tourist arrested after scaling Chichén Itzá pyramid during spring equinox – Mexico News Daily
- German tourist arrested after scaling Chichén Itzá pyramid during spring equinox Mexico News Daily
- Tourist Attacked by Locals After Climbing Forbidden Mayan Temple in Mexico PEOPLE
- Tourist booed for climbing sacred Mayan pyramid in Mexico Yahoo
- Moment German tourist is attacked by furious locals while being dragged away by security after climbing the st Daily Mail
- German tourist arrested at Mayan historical site of Chichen Itza for climbing ancient pyramid Washington Times