‘If we sleep, they bite’: Rats and weasels infest camps for displaced Gazans
In the Gaza Strip, the daily battles are now with rats, weasels, and other pests spreading diseases.
Germany Is Preparing Supply Lines for a War, It’s Far From Ready – Bloomberg.com
- Germany Is Preparing Supply Lines for a War, It’s Far From Ready Bloomberg.com
- Germany builds up its military to prepare for a potential future without U.S. support PBS
- Germany re-arms: what does it mean for Europe? Financial Times
- Germany rearms – but can it lead? Europe’s hesitant superpower in waiting Chatham House
- Germany rearms but what does this mean for Europe? The Straits Times
Cuba condemns new US sanctions as ‘illegal’ and ‘abusive’
The new measures come on top of a US blockade of oil to Cuba that has caused widespread blackouts and fuel shortages.
Trump says US forces are ‘like pirates’ taking Iranian oil
Donald Trump says US forces are ‘like pirates’ taking over Iranian ships and cargo near the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump says US forces are ‘like pirates’ taking Iranian oil
Donald Trump says US forces are ‘like pirates’ taking over Iranian ships and cargo near the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran war protester speaks to Al Jazeera from top of Washington bridge
A 45-year old man is occupying the top of Washington’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to protest the war on Iran.
Iran war protester speaks to Al Jazeera from top of Washington bridge
A 45-year old man is occupying the top of Washington’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to protest the war on Iran.
Havana slams new Trump sanctions as ‘collective punishment’ of Cuban people
The Cuban government has firmly rejected the recent sanctions levied by US President Donald Trump.
‘This tree was planted by my ancestor hundreds of years ago and my family settled here’
Oral history traces a family's roots to a tree planted in the 13th Century in a Ghanaian fishing town.
Two months into the Iran war, almost everybody is a loser – CNN
- Two months into the Iran war, almost everybody is a loser CNN
- Opinion | The U.S. Military Was Losing Its Edge. After Iran, Everyone Knows It. The New York Times
- Opinion | It’s Way Too Early to Declare Defeat in Iran WSJ
- Let’s Hope America’s Dumbest War Doesn’t Become Its Most Tragic The New Republic
- Tallying the losses in Trump’s War on Iran Center for International Policy
A 5-Month Wait and a 50% Fail Rate: It’s Hard to Get a British Driving License – The New York Times
Peru probes trafficking of citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine
Peru's public prosecutor says many of their citizens are victims of deception, lured by the promise of jobs.
Peru probes trafficking of citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine
Peru's public prosecutor says many of their citizens are victims of deception, lured by the promise of jobs.
Live Updates: Trump “not satisfied” with new peace deal offered by Iran as standoff’s costs multiply – CBS News
- Live Updates: Trump "not satisfied" with new peace deal offered by Iran as standoff's costs multiply CBS News
- Iran Softens Conditions for Resuming Peace Talks With the U.S. WSJ
- Iranian proposal rejected by Trump would open strait before nuclear talks, Iran official says NBC News
- Trump says he’s ‘not satisfied’ with Iran’s proposal to end the war AP News
- Oil prices fall after Iran sends updated peace proposal to mediators in Pakistan CNBC
Narges Mohammadi, Iranian Nobel Laureate, Is Hospitalized – The New York Times
- Narges Mohammadi, Iranian Nobel Laureate, Is Hospitalized The New York Times
- Nobel laureate Mohammadi in Iran hospital after 'cardiac crisis', foundation says Reuters
- Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised as health deteriorates Al Jazeera
- Iran tortures dad to death for using internet, executes karate champ in regime’s latest bloody crackowns New York Post
- Family of ailing Iranian Nobel laureate say keeping her in jail is a death sentence The Guardian
Trump claims other presidents flouted war powers law. It’s a mixed record
Both Bushes and Reagan won authorisation for wars, but Obama and Clinton ducked the requirement.
K-pop’s BTS comeback tour rallies South Korea’s global ‘soft power’ drive
K-pop sensations BTS ignited a wave of interest in South Korean culture that now extends from food to cosmetics.
US Supreme Court asked to restore abortion pill access
A lower court has limited mail-order access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which the drug's maker says will cause "irreparable harm".
Kumanjayi Little Baby’s relatives share grief at ‘child ripped away’ as NT chief minister foreshadows charges
Gurindji families mourn ‘a life so precious, gone far too soon’
Warning: This article contains images of and references to Indigenous Australians who have died
Kumanjayi Little Baby’s relatives have released a statement saying they felt “helpless” when they heard she was missing, and hope their community can unite in grief.
“A life so precious, so full of innocence, gone far too soon,” the Gurindji families said of the five-year-old Warlpiri girl, who was found dead in Alice Springs on Thursday evening – five days after she had gone missing from her bed in the Old Timers town camp.
Continue reading...Cuba says Trump’s fresh sanctions on its economy amount to ‘collective punishment’
The US sanctions target people operating in broad sections of Cuban economy, including energy, defence and mining
Cuba’s government has said new sanctions imposed on the island by Donald Trump amounted to “collective punishment”, as an enormous 1 May procession outside the American embassy in Havana vowed to “defend the homeland”.
In an executive order on Friday, the US president said he would impose sanctions on people involved in broad sections of the Cuban economy, as he seeks to put more pressure on Havana after ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this year.
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