- Live updates: Israel vows to ‘escalate’ strikes on Iran CNN
- Iran War Live Updates: 12 U.S. Troops Injured in Attack on Saudi Base, Officials Say The New York Times
- Global markets recoil as Rubio warns war in Iran could stretch for weeks Financial Times
- US diplomat Marco Rubio denounces settler violence, tolls in Hormuz strait aljazeera.com
- Middle East crisis live: US ‘hopeful’ of Iran meetings this week after Rubio claims operation expected to conclude in weeks The Guardian
From jammed broadcasts to a blocked website: BBC Russian’s 80 years of defiance
For half a century, BBC Russian had to fend off jammers. Now its website is blocked, but millions still read it.
Noah Wyle is back in A&E with new drama The Pitt: ‘I hope people watch with empathy’
The former ER star is back playing a physician with PTSD in a new US medical drama.
Tiger Woods arrested for suspected DUI after rolling his car
Police are charging professional golfer Tiger Woods with driving under the influence for a second time.
Watch the Earth split in real time: Stunning footage captures a 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds – ScienceDaily
- Watch the Earth split in real time: Stunning footage captures a 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds ScienceDaily
- Myanmar: WFP reports fragile recovery one year after deadly earthquake UN News
- “People amazed at love shown by Christians” – Myanmar earthquake one year on Open Doors UK & Ireland
- Children struggling to recover from Myanmar's deadly earthquake one year later Save the Children US
- One year after the Myanmar earthquake, families still need support to rebuild livelihoods, says World Vision World Vision
‘The gravest crime against humanity’: What does the UN vote on slavery mean?
African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be straightforward.
‘The gravest crime against humanity’: What does the UN vote on slavery mean?
African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be straightforward.
Iranian missile hits an airbase in Saudi Arabia, injuring U.S. troops – npr.org
- Iranian missile hits an airbase in Saudi Arabia, injuring U.S. troops npr.org
- Live updates: Iranian missile attack wounds 10 US troops at Saudi air base, AP sources say AP News
- 10 Americans injured in Iranian attack on Saudi air base CBS News
- Twelve US troops wounded in Iran strike on base in Saudi Arabia, US official says Reuters
- Attacks ramp up in Iran war including strikes on US troops in Saudi Arabia Politico
‘We’re having a moment’ – fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial
The landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube.
Iran Moves to Assert Control Over Strait While Trading Strikes With Israel – The New York Times
- Iran Moves to Assert Control Over Strait While Trading Strikes With Israel The New York Times
- What a battle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would look like The Economist
- In Sleepy Town on Strait of Hormuz, War Rages Just Over Horizon The New York Times
- Iran and the US harden their positions over talks to end the nearly month-old war AP News
- The Iran War Is Now All About the Future of Hormuz Bloomberg
Iran war splits older and younger conservatives – as pressure builds for Trump to find exit ramp
More than a thousand miles from Washington, the conflict was a dominant topic of conversation at CPAC.
Iran war splits older and younger conservatives – as pressure builds for Trump to find exit ramp
More than a thousand miles from Washington, the conflict was a dominant topic of conversation at CPAC.
Trump says US-Israeli war on Iran creating a new Middle East
Donald Trump told a Saudi investment conference that the Middle East will soon be free from Iranian “nuclear blackmail.”
Maldives tells UK it does not recognise Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius
The Maldives is threatening international legal action to press its claim for control of the Chagos Islands.
Iran war live: Trump again slams NATO’s lack of support for war on Tehran
Iranian Red Crescent says more than 92,600 civilian units were damaged across the country in US-Israeli attacks.
Iran Rejects U.S. Narrative That It Must Adhere to Trump’s ‘Disingenuous’ Negotiation Framework – Givebutter
- Iran Rejects U.S. Narrative That It Must Adhere to Trump’s ‘Disingenuous’ Negotiation Framework Givebutter
- Day 26 of Middle East conflict — Tehran says it does not accept 15-point plan by the US CNN
- Here are Iran’s 5 conditions for ending war after rejecting US ceasefire plan The Hill
- Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own demands as strikes land across the Mideast AP News
- Iran war updates: Tehran says no talks as Trump threatens to ‘hit harder’ Al Jazeera
Global markets recoil as Marco Rubio warns war in Iran could stretch for weeks – Financial Times
- Global markets recoil as Marco Rubio warns war in Iran could stretch for weeks Financial Times
- UAE targeted with missiles and drones – as it happened The Guardian
- US diplomat Marco Rubio denounces settler violence, tolls in Hormuz strait Al Jazeera
- Rubio tells allies Iran war will continue 2-4 more weeks Axios
- G7 meets on Russia-Ukraine war as Rubio tries to sell U.S. strategy in Iran to skeptical allies insulted by Trump PBS
Three killed as tourist helicopter crashes on Hawaiian island of Kauai
Two others injured after sightseeing aircraft comes down on remote beach on Na Pali Coast
A tourist helicopter crashed on a remote beach off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, killing three people and injuring two others, authorities said.
The helicopter was carrying one pilot and four passengers when it crashed on Thursday afternoon at Kalalau Beach, the Kauai fire department said. The beach is on the Na Pali coast on Kauai’s north shore. The area is otherwise reachable only by hiking or boat.
Continue reading...‘Break your silence’: Jane Fonda leads rally against Trump crackdown on arts and media
Actor outside Kennedy Center urges Americans to ‘stand tall against authoritarianism’ and resist free-speech threats
The actor Jane Fonda joined journalists, musicians and writers outside Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in urging US citizens to “break your silence” and “stand tall against authoritarianism”.
At a damp but defiant rally hosted by Fonda’s Committee for the First Amendment on Friday, around a hundred invited guests gathered to hear speakers and singers rail against book bans, political censorship and other threats to free speech under Donald Trump.
Continue reading...Yemen’s Houthis launch first attack on Israel since outbreak of conflict, as Rubio says war to end in ‘weeks’
Missile fired from Yemen the first since the Iran war began and came hours after the US secretary set a new timeline for the conflict
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have confirmed that they launched an attack on Israel for the first time since the outbreak of the Israel-US war on Iran, marking their entry to the conflict just hours after Marco Rubio said the US expected to conclude military operations within “weeks, not months”.
While Israel was again hitting targets across Iran’s capital on Saturday, it identified what it said was a missile launched from Yemen. The Houthis said the attack came after continued targeting of infrastructure in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, adding that their operations would continue until the “aggression” on all fronts ends.
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