Zambia signs US health deal after disputes over data-sharing
The US will provide $1.5bn (£1.1bn) under the deal that was negotiated after Trump cut USAID funding.
Ethiopia launches drone attack against Eritrean troops who crossed into Tigray
Government forces’ attack raises risk of internal conflict in Ethiopia that could trigger regional war
Eritrean troops who crossed into Ethiopia’s Tigray region have come under drone attack from government forces, raising the risk that renewed internal conflict in Ethiopia could trigger an all-out regional war between the neighbouring countries.
Military vehicles carrying soldiers drove across Eritrea’s southern border into Tigray on Wednesday, reaching the town of Adigrat 25 miles (40km) south, according to civilian witnesses, a militia commander and the conflict monitoring group Acled.
Continue reading...Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island – The Guardian
Florida judge allows lawsuit against Shah of Iran’s alleged ‘chief torturer’ to move forward
Parviz Sabeti denies allegations he led Savak intelligence agency under shah and directed torture of thousands
The alleged “chief torturer” for the deposed Shah of Iran is a step closer to trial for human rights abuses after a Florida federal judge rejected his demand to halt a lawsuit brought by three former political prisoners.
Parviz Sabeti, who was reported last year to have lived in a quiet upscale central Florida community, is accused of being the former head of Savak, the shah’s secret police and intelligence agency. The plaintiffs say they discovered his whereabouts only after a photo of Sabeti at a 2023 protest against the Iranian government was posted on social media by his daughter.
Continue reading...Russian Airstrike on Bus Stop Kills at Least 30 in Ukraine – WSJ
- Russian Airstrike on Bus Stop Kills at Least 30 in Ukraine WSJ
- Russian strike kills at least 33 in eastern Ukraine in deadliest single attack this year CNN
- Russian strike on Ukrainian public buses leaves dozens dead as blackouts worsen in Kyiv PBS
- More killed in Kramatorsk as Russia targets Ukraine’s transportation system Al Jazeera
- At least 30 dead in Russian bus strike as Moscow closes in on Ukraine’s ‘fortress belt’ The Washington Post
Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says ‘vital services’ to remain
Israel said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Ukraine says it hit Russia’s largest oil refinery – Reuters
- Ukraine says it hit Russia's largest oil refinery Reuters
- Ukraine claims to have taken out more than half of Russia’s oil refining capacity AP News
- Ukraine's Zelenskiy says intelligence shows Russia is preparing massive attack Reuters
- ‘No rules now’ — Putin’s war of open lawlessness is already targeting Europe The Hill
- Ukraine's defence forces strike Omsk Oil Refinery 2,500 km from border using upgraded FP-1 drones Українська правда
Christa Pike now walking after failed US execution, lawyer tells BBC
A lawyer says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is moving around her hospital room after surviving two lethal injections.
Booms and flight disruptions in Riyadh as Saudi-Houthi war escalates – CNBC
- Booms and flight disruptions in Riyadh as Saudi-Houthi war escalates CNBC
- Iran war live: 3 Saudi citizens killed in attacks on Riyadh airport Al Jazeera
- Saudia Airlines employee, two others killed in Houthi attack on Riyadh airport yesterday The Times of Israel
- Plane damaged at Riyadh airport as Houthis escalate attacks, sources say Reuters
- Explosions heard in Saudi capital and Riyadh airport, and other Mideast developments AP News
‘Bold and inventive’ Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Literature Prize
Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.
Search Warrants Used To Seize Property From Ex-Prince Andrew Were Unlawful, Judge Finds – HuffPost
- Search Warrants Used To Seize Property From Ex-Prince Andrew Were Unlawful, Judge Finds HuffPost
- Charles Reportedly ‘Hopping Mad’ Over Andrew’s Legal Win as His Brother Demands for the King the ‘Admit’ He Was ‘Wrong’ Yahoo
- Warrants used to search Andrew's homes were unlawful, court says BBC
- Judge says search warrants used to seize property from former Prince Andrew were unlawful AP News
- Ex-prince Andrew search warrants quashed after police accept legal error Reuters
Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign sign
Bernadette Greene-Placentia says her memory of the attack is spotty and that she was knocked unconscious.
King David Hotel bombing to consulate row: A timeline of UK-Israel tension – Al Jazeera
- King David Hotel bombing to consulate row: A timeline of UK-Israel tension Al Jazeera
- Israel Downgrades U.K. Consulate in Jerusalem Over West Bank Trade Ban WSJ
- British diplomats to remain at scaled-down mission in Jerusalem Reuters
- U.K. and Israel appear to reach tense truce, but diplomatic feud highlights Israel's strained ties with Europe CBS News
- Israel’s downgrading of UK consulate aims to tighten its hold on Jerusalem The Guardian
One Nation’s AI video is vile and tired – but the ensloppification of Australian politics doesn’t stop there
The inflammatory clip shows the wild west of online politicking created by unrestricted access to AI – and why watchdogs need more powers to do something about it
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One Nation’s new AI-generated campaign video is a new low – even for them.
The video – reportedly played at the party’s Victorian campaign launch over the weekend – is an AI-generated collection of racist tropes, depicting a man who appears to be African brandishing a machete, an apparently Middle Eastern man with an explosive vest, a south Asian man in a turban talking about “mass migration” and an Indigenous elder talking about people receiving “money … on the basis of need, not identity”.
Continue reading...Russian attack on bus kills at least 30 people near Ukraine frontline
Zelenskyy says Kremlin deliberately targeted ‘ordinary public transport stop’ in Kramatorsk, with 18 wounded
A Russian missile strike on a bus in the eastern city of Kramatorsk has killed at least 30 people, officials have said, in one of the worst attacks by Moscow on Ukrainian civilians this year.
The regional prosecutor’s office in the Donetsk region said on Thursday the vehicle had been hit at 10am by an aerial bomb. “As of now, the death toll from this morning’s attack has risen to 30. Eighteen people were wounded,” it said, adding that all local public transport had been suspended.
Continue reading...Italy’s parliament gives final approval to Meloni’s electoral reform – AP News
- Italy’s parliament gives final approval to Meloni’s electoral reform AP News
- Italian opposition cries foul as Meloni’s electoral reform passed in secret ballot The Guardian
- Italy approves elections overhaul as opposition accuse Meloni of 'scam' law BBC
- Italy Weighs Controversial Law Giving Bonus Seats to Election Winners The New York Times
- Italy’s Giorgia Meloni forces through new electoral law ahead of vote; opposition cries foul NBC News
Iran strikes tankers outside Hormuz in signs of expanding campaign – Euronews.com
- Iran strikes tankers outside Hormuz in signs of expanding campaign Euronews.com
- Attacks on tankers in Hormuz hit highest of any week since start of Iran war, sources say Reuters
- Tanker Attacks Push Deeper Into Gulf, Rattle Oil Markets WSJ
- Rebounding oil exports through Strait of Hormuz are vulnerable to stepped-up Iranian tanker attacks CNBC
- LPG Carrier Hit, Catches Fire in Strait of Hormuz: IRGC Navy تسنیم
Italian opposition cries foul as Meloni’s electoral reform passed in secret ballot
Parties vow to challenge law in court, arguing that extra reward for those with 42% of support distorts public representation
A controversial overhaul to electoral law that critics say is aimed at boosting Giorgia Meloni’s chances of clinging on to power in elections next year has been given final approval by the Italian parliament.
Meloni, the Italian prime minister, says the new system, which introduces a fully proportional model, including bonus seats for any coalition that wins the most votes, will bring about greater political stability, while opposition parties argue that it mainly serves the interests of those in power.
Continue reading...A year into Trump’s peace plan, Netanyahu stands in the way of rebuilding – The Washington Post
- A year into Trump’s peace plan, Netanyahu stands in the way of rebuilding The Washington Post
- Israel kills or wounds Palestinian every 90 minutes in Gaza since ceasefire Al Jazeera
- ‘Neither war nor peace’: Palestinians in Gaza on existing amid disease, despair and ruins The Guardian
- For families in Israel and Gaza, neither the pain nor the memory of children lost has faded CBS News
- Opinion | 3 years after Oct. 7, the world's reaction to Gaza exposes a painful truth MS NOW
Has Israel shut the UK consulate in East Jerusalem – or downgraded it?
British Foreign Secretary Miliband said the consulate building would remain but would be called 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.