Astronaut captures rare red aurora from International Space Station
NASA astronaut Don Pettit recorded video of a rare red aurora from aboard the International Space Station.
UK drops refugee family reunion applications amid anti-immigration protests
Move part of broader immigration crackdown as ruling Labour Party comes under pressure from hard-right Reform UK party.
News outlets ‘blackout’ for Gaza to protest journalist killings
News outlets across the world took part in a 'blackout for Gaza' to protest Israel’s killing of journalists.
How will Pakistan deal with its worst floods on record?
Hundreds of people are dead and millions affected.
Nestlé fires CEO after investigation into ‘undisclosed romantic relationship’
Company, which owns brands including KitKat, replaces Laurent Freixe with Philipp Navratil
Nestlé has dismissed its chief executive, Laurent Freixe, after an investigation into an “undisclosed romantic relationship” with a subordinate that was found to have breached its code of business conduct.
The Swiss-headquartered multinational, which owns consumer goods brands including KitKat chocolate, Häagen-Dazs ice-cream and Nespresso coffee capsules, named Philipp Navratil as his replacement.
Continue reading...Is US healthcare still using racist medical practices?
How racial bias in the US healthcare system almost cost one patient her life.
Visitors to US Plunge Amid Concerns About Donald Trump’s Policies – Newsweek
- Visitors to US Plunge Amid Concerns About Donald Trump's Policies Newsweek
- The ‘self-inflicted injury’ to US tourism that’s making some Americans angry and disappointed CNN
- Tourist spots try to win back Canadian tourists NBC News
- A downturn in international travel to the U.S. may last beyond summer, experts warn ABC News
- Foreign tourism to the US drops amid Trump-era policies Al Jazeera
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending – Slashdot
- The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Slashdot
- Shoppers met with canceled orders, delays as de minimis exemption ends The Washington Post
- List of places suspending some US parcel shipments grows as tariff exemption ends CNN
- What Does the End of De Minimis Mean for Online Shopping? New York Magazine
- This rule made many online purchases dirt cheap for U.S. consumers. Now it's ending NPR
EU chief von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming
The European Commission said the plane's navigation was disrupted in Bulgaria on Sunday.
EU chief von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming
The European Commission said the plane's navigation was disrupted in Bulgaria on Sunday.
Summer 2025 was hottest on record in UK, says Met Office
Unprecedented average temperature made about 70 times more likely by human-induced climate change, says agency
The UK has had its hottest summer on record, the Met Office has said, after the country faced four heatwaves in a single season.
The mean temperature for meteorological summer, which encompasses the months of June, July and August, was 16.1C (60.98F), which is significantly above the current record of 15.76C set in 2018.
Continue reading...Foreign tourism to the US drops amid Trump-era policies
Tourism down in five out of six months, with experts linking decline to president's rhetoric and restrictive policies.
‘Covered in dust and too shocked to speak’: Afghan villagers reel at scale of quake’s devastation
Cut off by rock falls in the mountains, locals who survived the tremors help pull injured and dead from the rubble.
‘Covered in dust and too shocked to speak’: Afghan villagers reel at scale of quake’s devastation
Cut off by rock falls in the mountains, locals who survived the tremors help pull injured and dead from the rubble.
India’s Modi has ‘insightful’ talks in Putin’s limo
The two leaders - both under pressure from Donald Trump - spent 45 minutes inside the Russian leader's car.
Gaza school year starts but barely any children are in lessons
As the school year begins, Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al Khalili visits a makeshift school in Gaza.
Guatemala says it is willing to receive hundreds of deported children from US
Announcement comes a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors
Guatemala is ready and willing to receive about 150 unaccompanied children of all ages each week from the United States, the country’s president has said, a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 Guatemalan children.
Those children had already boarded a plane when a court responded to an emergency appeal on Sunday. They were later returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Continue reading...Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s leading experts say
The world's leading association of genocide scholars cited several actions by Israel, including attacks on the healthcare sector and the killing of children.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s leading experts say
The world's leading association of genocide scholars cited several actions by Israel, including attacks on the healthcare sector and the killing of children.
Home secretary suspends refugee family reunion applications until new, tighter rules are put in place – as it happened
Yvette Cooper says rules were designed years ago to help families separated by war but are being used in a different way now
And while we are talking about Blair-era Labour aides, Peter Hyman, who wrote speeches for Tony Blair and later worked for Keir Starmer in the run-up to the general election, has launched a new Substack blog. It is called Changing the Story, which tells you quite a lot about what he thinks is going wrong with No 10. Here is an extract from his first post.
Starmer is an ‘opportunity’ prime minister forced to become a ‘security’ one. And that’s why the government’s narrative is seen by some to be elusive.
Let me explain.
I remember well Tim Allan’s leaving drinks at Number 10 in the earlyish Blair era. In his fulsome farewell speech Tony Blair noted only half jokingly “Tim’s even more right wing than me..”
The same Tim Allan who as head of Portland had a contract to polish Vladimir Putin’s reputation?
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