Qatar responds to Netanyahu’s ‘hostile state’ remark
Qatar has responded to Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that it’s a 'hostile state'.
PISA 2025 results: Reading and math scores plummet worldwide – DW.com
- PISA 2025 results: Reading and math scores plummet worldwide DW.com
- Are teenagers growing dimmer? The Economist
- U.S. Reading Scores Plummet on Global Exam The New York Times
- U.S. students’ scores on international test reach lowest point in 2 decades The Washington Post
- Families’ interest in their kids’ education is falling around the globe as scores drop, test shows NBC News
United Utilities fined £1m after discharging raw sewage into Lancashire coast
Sewage plume reached seven bathing waters and significantly affected water quality in June 2023
United Utilities has been fined nearly £1m after illegally discharging raw sewage into the Lancashire coastline and polluting seaside holiday locations including Blackpool.
The water company pleaded guilty to five environmental permit offences relating to a pollution incident along the Fylde coast in June 2023, and was ordered by Preston magistrates court on Tuesday to pay £964,225 in fines and costs.
Continue reading...British widow faces deportation from Sweden after 22 years
A 78-year-old British woman is facing deportation for failing to fill out a Brexit residence application on time.
British widow faces deportation from Sweden after 22 years
A 78-year-old British woman is facing deportation for failing to fill out a Brexit residence application on time.
Women and children remain trapped in Syria’s Roj camp
Women and children remain trapped in Syria’s Roj camp
Egyptian TV presenter Sarah Khalifa sentenced to death in drug case – USA Today
- Egyptian TV presenter Sarah Khalifa sentenced to death in drug case USA Today
- Sarah Khalifa: Egyptian TV presenter sentenced to death on drug charges CNN
- TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death in Egypt drugs case BBC
- Egyptian TV presenter Sarah Khalifa sentenced to death in drugs case Al Jazeera
- Egyptian TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death for drug crime The Guardian
US issues sweeping sanctions against Iranian airlines, foreign businesses – thehill.com
- US issues sweeping sanctions against Iranian airlines, foreign businesses thehill.com
- US targets Iran’s airline industry as part of pressure campaign CNN
- US Treasury ratchets up pressure on Iran with sweeping new aviation sanctions Reuters
- U.S. sanctions Iranian airlines in aim to tighten economic squeeze as war spreads, oil rises CNBC
- US senator says Turkey ‘not our friend’ over Iran-linked financing Iran International
Renoir paintings worth $10.5 million missing after museum heist
A pre-dawn break-in at the Renoir Museum in southern France saw thieves seize four paintings
NATO member boots 10 Russian diplomats – Fox News
- NATO member boots 10 Russian diplomats Fox News
- Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats, Moscow promises harsh response Al Jazeera
- Russia says it will give a ‘harsh and painful’ response after Hungary expels 10 diplomats - Europe live The Guardian
- Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats as relations worsen BBC
- Hungary Expels 10 Russian Diplomats, Signaling a Shift The New York Times
Smithsonian Institution secretary to retire amid Trump attacks on museum independence
‘I have to be honest, it has been stressful,’ Lonnie Bunch III says
The Smithsonian Institution’s secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, will retire at the end of the year amid Donald Trump’s attacks on the museum’s content and independence.
Bunch, who was appointed in 2019 as the first African American to lead the museums, cited personal reasons for departing, while acknowledging the pressure that the president’s attacks on the Smithsonian’s depictions of US history had taken.
Continue reading...Gulf nations race to bypass Hormuz and build defenses as Iran war drags on – Yahoo
- Gulf nations race to bypass Hormuz and build defenses as Iran war drags on Yahoo
- Three ways the Iran war changed the global economy CNN
- Gulf insecurity fuels US energy dominance Al Jazeera
- Iran War Forces a Rewrite of Global Oil Trade Routes Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com
- TODAY: Gulf oil exporters face different limits to their workarounds enterpriseam.com
Yemen’s war is back: A new battle for Sanaa and the Red Sea
This phase of the war could be the start of another protracted conflict rather than a decisive campaign, say analysts.
US federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi case
Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights
A US appellate court has decided that the federal constitution does not guarantee a right to clean water.
That legal opinion came in the form of a decision on Friday from the fifth circuit court of appeals to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a 2022 lawsuit from several Jackson, Mississippi, residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their constitutional rights.
Continue reading...Photos: Palestinians rebuild Gaza’s ruins with mud bricks, scrap
Over 90 percent of Gaza lies in ruins, forcing thousands to rebuild homes with limited resources like mud and rubble.
Nicaragua urges ICJ to reject Germany’s bid to throw out Gaza genocide case
Nicaragua maintains that German arms exports to Israel facilitated Gaza genocide as Germany's tries to halt the case.
US won’t join UK ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US will ‘obviously not’ follow the UK in sanctioning illegal Israeli settlements
Fourteen go on trial over deadliest Channel small boats disaster – BBC
Fourteen go on trial over deadliest Channel small boats disaster
At least 30 men, women and children drowned when their dinghy capsized on 24 November 2021.
Pilots tried to abort landing seconds before deadly Amazon cargo plane crash that killed five
The five people killed were employees of an aircraft cleaning company who were in a van struck by the plane after it overran the Miami airport runway
Officials in Florida on Tuesday said evidence collected from Saturday’s Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami international airport suggests the pilots considered aborting the flight’s landing before it crashed and killed five people on the ground.
At a press conference Tuesday evening, officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released data from the plane’s “black box” flight data recorder, which was recovered from the wreckage on Monday, indicating pilots initiated a “go-around”, or aborted landing, seconds before impact.
Reuters contributed reporting
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