How Air India flight 171 crashed and its fatal last moments
A preliminary report released on Saturday has found that fuel-control switches were cut, but does not explain why.
2 dead as Russia attacks Ukraine overnight with almost 600 drones, Kyiv says – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- 2 dead as Russia attacks Ukraine overnight with almost 600 drones, Kyiv says ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Russian drone, cruise missile and bomb attacks kill at least 6 in Ukraine AP News
- Russia attacks west Ukraine with drones and missiles, kills two Reuters
- Russia Bombards Ukraine as U.S. Frustration Mounts The New York Times
- Russian strikes kill 13 across Ukraine, as Putin attacks previously safe cities as part of new strategy New York Post
PKK disarmament opens ‘new page in history’ for Turkiye, Erdogan says
After announcing they would disarm, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) began destroying their weapons in northern Iraq.
Taiwan deploys advanced US rockets in closely watched part of annual drills
HIMARS are being used in military drills aimed at boosting the island's ability to combat threats from China.
‘A true hell’: How three Srebrenica survivors defied death 30 years ago
Amid a genocide, they crawled through slush, trekked through forests, and dodged bullets and bombs, losing loved ones.
Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Centre-right government rejects long-established national policies focused on rehabilitation and reintegration
Sweden is moving away from criminal rehabilitation in favour of US-style mass incarceration, experts have said, as the country prepares to rent places in Estonian jails to help house its rapidly expanding prison population.
The move to outsource prison places is one of a slew of policies aimed at transforming the Swedish criminal justice system as the centre-right government struggles to tackle gang violence and prisons warn of overcrowding.
Continue reading...At least 4 dead, 20 missing after boat sinks off Dominican Republic
Dominican authority says 17 other refugees and migrants rescued from the boat heading for Puerto Rico, a US territory.
Five men lynched in Guatemala after allegations of theft after quake
In aftermath of magnitude 5.7 earthquake, the men were accused of robbing damaged homes in Santa Maria de Jesus.
The Killing Fields execution site and two former Khmer Rouge prisons added to Unesco heritage list
The three Cambodian sites’ inscription coincides with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of the brutal regime
Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by Unesco to its world heritage list.
The three locations were inscribed to the list by the UN cultural agency on Friday during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.
Continue reading...Colombia arrests alleged leader of Italian mafia in Latin America – Al Jazeera
Colombia arrests alleged leader of Italian mafia in Latin America
Giuseppe Palermo has been wanted under an Interpol red notice, which has called for his arrest in 196 countries.
Sydney family of detained Palestinian woman plead with home affairs minister over visa cancellation
‘We need our auntie back, we need her freedom,’ says cousin of Maha Almassri, who was moved to Villawood detention centre after pre-dawn raid
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The family of a Palestinian grandmother detained in Sydney by immigration authorities after a pre-dawn raid have pleaded with the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, for answers about her visa cancellation and “real representation” to secure her freedom.
Maha Almassri, 61, was on Thursday morning awoken by border force officers at her son’s home in western Sydney. She had fled Gaza in February 2024 and entered Australia on a visitor visa shortly afterwards. She was granted a bridging visa in June 2024 after applying for a protection visa.
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Continue reading...Air India report may lead to answers, but not closure for families
As experts analyse the findings of the report, it provides little comfort to the families who lost their loved ones.
Father given £1,173 refund from nursery in England after ‘top-up’ fees investigation
Preschool establishment asked for extra compulsory fee for ‘consumables’ – but it should have been free
A nursery has refunded a father almost £1,200 after an investigation found he had been charged mandatory “top-up” fees for hours of childcare that should have been free.
Tiago Gomes’s daughter was eligible for government-funded childcare at the Lake House day nursery and preschool in Bristol but he was told that he must pay an extra compulsory fee for “consumables”.
Continue reading...Nearly 60 Labour MPs call for UK to immediately recognise Palestinian state
Exclusive: MPs say in letter Gaza is being ethnically cleansed as Israeli defence minister plans ‘forcible transfer’
Nearly 60 Labour MPs have demanded the UK immediately recognises Palestine as a state, after Israel’s defence minister announced plans to force all residents of Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah.
The MPs, who include centrist and leftwing backbenchers, sent a letter to David Lammy on Thursday warning they believed Gaza was being ethnically cleansed.
Continue reading...Recently recaptured Ecuador drug lord ‘Fito’ accepts US extradition request
Notorious gang leader has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges.
MPs and political candidates face ‘industrial’ levels of abuse, minister says
Exclusive: Young people deterred from politics, Rushanara Ali warns, as government plans stricter punishments
MPs and political candidates are facing “industrial” levels of intimidation and harassment, a minister has warned, as the government outlines plans for stricter punishments for those found guilty of abuse.
Rushanara Ali, the minister for democracy, said her colleagues were suffering worse harassment than ever before and warned this was deterring many young people from becoming politically active.
Continue reading...Gaza ceasefire talks on verge of collapse, Palestinian officials say
Senior Palestinian officials accuse Israel of deliberately stalling the negotiations in Qatar during the prime minister's US visit.
Science news this week: ‘Bringing back’ giant ancient birds and a shift in Earth’s poles – Live Science
- Science news this week: 'Bringing back' giant ancient birds and a shift in Earth's poles Live Science
- 'We're bringing back avian dinosaurs': De-extinction company claims it will resurrect the giant moa in next 10 years Live Science
- Colossal Biosciences’ Next Big Feat: Bringing Back 12-Foot Moa Yahoo
- It’s 12ft tall, covered in feathers and has been extinct for 600 years – can the giant moa bird really be resurrected? The Guardian
- Giant, flightless bird is next target for de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences CNN
Risotto rice under threat from flamingoes in north-eastern Italy
Farmers are seeking ways to fend off birds who are stirring up soil in flooded paddy fields in Ferrara province
An unusual bird is ravaging crops and infuriating farmers in north-eastern Italy: the flamingo.
Flamingos are relatively recent arrivals in the area, and have settled into the flooded fields that produce rice for risotto in Ferrara province, between Venice and Ravenna.
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