Death toll rises to 146 in Hong Kong apartment fire: “A wake-up call for everyone” – CBS News

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  1. Death toll rises to 146 in Hong Kong apartment fire: "A wake-up call for everyone"  CBS News
  2. Hong Kong fire death toll rises to 146 as thousands pay respects  BBC
  3. Mourners flock to site of deadly Hong Kong blaze as Beijing warns against protests  Reuters
  4. Anger simmers over Hong Kong deadly blaze as Beijing warns against 'disruption'  CNBC
  5. Hong Kong’s Migrant Domestic Workers Mourn Their Losses in Deadly Fire  The New York Times
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Benjamin Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon in corruption case

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Request is submitted weeks after Donald Trump called on Isaac Herzog to pardon Israeli prime minister

Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel’s president for a pardon for bribery and fraud charges and an end to a five-year corruption trial, arguing that it would be in the “public interest”.

Isaac Herzog’s office acknowledged receipt of the 111-page submission from the prime minister’s lawyer, and said it had been passed on to the pardons department in the ministry of justice. The president’s legal adviser would also formulate an opinion before Herzog made a decision, it added.

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Fears for UK security as Foreign Office moves to scrap unit on conflict and refugee crises

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MPs warn axing FCDO’s migration and conflict directorate amid staff cuts risks undermining peace work and expertise

The Foreign Office has been warned that a plan to axe its dedicated unit on emerging conflicts and refugee crises is a “real error” that “undermines UK security” as the department grapples with swingeing cuts.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) migration and conflict directorate, which employs about 100 civil servants, is being abolished at the end of this year and its work subsumed by the rest of the department.

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EPA urged to ban spraying of antibiotics on US food crops amid resistance fears

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Use of 8m pounds of antibiotics and antifungals a year leads to superbugs and damages human health, lawsuit claims

A new legal petition filed by a dozen public health and farm worker groups demands the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop allowing farms to spray antibiotics on food crops in the US because they are probably causing superbugs to flourish and sickening farm workers.

The agricultural industry sprays about 8m pounds of antibiotic and antifungal pesticides on US food crops annually, many of which are banned in other countries.

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Is gen Z’s love of fried chicken pushing Britain to ‘peak pizza’?

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Competition intensifies as former chief of Domino’s says days of ‘massive growth’ are over

Pizza has become ubiquitous on British dinner plates, with chains such as Pizza Express, Franco Manca, Domino’s and Goodfella’s dominating the market – but is its popularity starting to cool?

Domino’s Pizza Group announced this week that its chief executive of two years had stepped down with immediate effect, less than two weeks after he appeared to suggest the UK may be approaching “peak pizza”.

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Ukrainian and US officials to meet in Florida to discuss proposals to end Russia’s war

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Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner expected to meet Kyiv delegation, after another weekend of deadly Russian attacks in Ukraine

Ukrainian negotiators are preparing to meet US officials in Florida to thrash out details of Washington’s proposed framework to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as Kyiv faces pressure on military and political fronts.

The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, are expected to sit down with a Ukrainian delegation on Sunday before planned US talks this week in Moscow with Vladimir Putin.

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