- Drone Sightings Force Copenhagen and Oslo Airports to Close Temporarily The New York Times
- Drones shut Copenhagen Airport in 'serious attack'; NATO weighs tougher Russia action NBC News
- Denmark PM: Drone incident at Copenhagen Airport an 'attack' DW
- Is Copenhagen drone incursion further evidence of Russian interest in allied airspace? The Guardian
- Drone sightings disrupt flights in Norway, Denmark CNN
What are the risks of a global digital divide in AI?
UN warns 118 states are way behind leaders in Artificial Intelligence.
South Africa: Israel’s genocide must stop
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the 80th UN General Assembly, saying Israel is committing genocide.
Macron calls Trump after motorcade blocks his car
Macron and Trump were in New York for the 80th UN General Assembly
Trump’s address to world leaders at the UN was for a different audience: his base
Trump told the assembled European leaders that they were destroying their own countries in a move that was ‘basically Maga madlibs’
Donald Trump may have been speaking to the 192 other world leaders gathered in the United Nations, but the real target of his speech on Tuesday was Europe, which was hauled up repeatedly as the whipping boy for an antiliberal, blood-and-soil polemic that renewed an assault on the transatlantic relationship that has become a theme of his second administration.
In an hourlong address to the assembled world leaders and delegations, Trump told European leaders directly that they were destroying their own countries – and that they should be more like the US as he condemned their policies on immigration, green energy and political correctness.
Continue reading...Israel destroys evacuated health center in Gaza City, medics say – AP News
- Israel destroys evacuated health center in Gaza City, medics say AP News
- Gaza City medics describe hospital overwhelmed by casualties from Israeli strikes BBC
- ‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south The Guardian
- ‘It is a bloodbath’: Australian medic describes situation at Gaza hospital Al Jazeera
- Israel destroys evacuated health centre in Gaza City, Palestinian medical charity says Euronews.com
Mike Pompeo: There Is No Palestinian State to Recognize – The Free Press
- Mike Pompeo: There Is No Palestinian State to Recognize The Free Press
- Get the Facts: What countries recognize a Palestinian state? KCCI
- Heading to UN, Netanyahu dismisses Palestinian recognition as ’shameful capitulation’ The Times of Israel
- France says UN recognition of Palestinian state is a blow to Hamas not a gift Fox News
- In Israel, Government Backlash Brews Over Palestinian State Recognition The New York Times
Seven years ago Trump’s UN audience laughed, this year they were silent
The US leader's address was one of the clearest expositions of the way he sees the world, writes James Landale.
Six years ago Trump’s UN audience laughed, this year they were silent
The US leader's address was one of the clearest expositions of the way he sees the world, writes James Landale.
Trump says he believes Ukraine can regain all land lost to Russia since 2022 invasion
US president claims Russia is in ‘big economic trouble’ as he calls for Nato countries to stop imports of Russian oil
Donald Trump has said he believes Ukraine can regain all the land that it has lost since the 2022 Russian invasion in one of the strongest statements of support he has given Kyiv.
The US president delivered his upbeat assessment by claiming Russia was in big economic trouble in a post on Truth Social after meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in New York.
Continue reading...Israel seeks permanent Gaza control, Jewish majority in West Bank: UN
A new report from the UN finds Israel has been 'systematically destroying Palestinian life in Gaza'.
Qatar’s emir accuses Israel of trying to derail Gaza truce talks
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says the Israeli attack on Doha undermines efforts to end the Gaza genocide.
Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by five wickets in Asia Cup Super Fours match
The win in Abu Dhabi sends Pakistan second on the Super Fours points table while Sri Lanka are all but out.
TV stations refuse to air ‘insensitive’ Kimmel’s show after ABC lifts suspension
The comedian's late-night show was suspended last week after his remarks about the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
Colorado lightning strikes kill two elk hunters caught in ‘horrific act of nature’
Bodies of Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko found by rescue crews after storm that likely killed them in ‘split second’
Lightning strikes in Colorado earlier this month killed two elk hunters who were caught in a storm, authorities concluded this week.
Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko, both 25, had been hunting in the Rio Grande national forest in southern Colorado the week of 11 September when they stopped making contact. After extensive search and rescue operations, crews came upon their bodies a week later.
Continue reading...How well do you know UN terminology?
What’s the plenary, who is observing, and why are only some resolutions binding? Al Jazeera’s Alma Milisic explains.
Cheryl Tweedy stalker jailed for a year after again breaching restraining order
Convicted killer Daniel Bannister showed up at singer’s home for fourth time, leaving her ‘stunned’
A convicted killer who stalked Cheryl Tweedy has been jailed after turning up at the singer’s home for a fourth time.
Daniel Bannister, 50, who breached a restraining order after showing up at Tweedy’s rural home in June, had already spent time in prison for the same offence. At Reading crown court on Tuesday, a judge sentenced him to 12 months in jail after he admitted a single charge of breaching a restraining order. He was also handed a fresh restraining order not to contact Tweedy.
Continue reading...Typhoon bursts Taiwan lake as strongest storm barrels towards China
Ragasa is the strongest storm anywhere on Earth so far this year.
Jordan: Palestinian statehood ‘an indisputable right, not a reward’
Jordan’s King Abdullah II told the UN General Assembly that Israel is “burying the very idea of a Palestinian state."
‘Loud and proud’: UK summit kicks off new conversation for working dads
Organisers of event urge fathers to push for more equal parental rights in face of Britain’s current poor offering
“Who’s in your team?” asked Elliott Rae, pumping up the crowd in central London at what he billed as the world’s first Working Dads’ summit. “Who’s your goalkeeper, your defender, your striker? Do you have a full 11? Do you have subs on the bench?.”
Football analogies are generally rare at events about parenting, particularly those that seek to tackle gender equality. But then, so are men. At the Working Dads’ summit – almost certainly the first in the UK – both were in plentiful supply, as fathers were urged to “create a new idea of masculinity”.
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