- 'My Silence Didn't Protect Me': Released Hostage Accuses Israeli Trainer of Sexual Assault Haaretz
- Mia Schem, freed Israeli hostage, accuses Tel Aviv fitness influencer of drugging, raping her New York Post
- Hamas hostage ‘raped in her own home after release’ The Times
- Ex-hostage recalls ‘flashes’ from alleged rape by trainer who she says drugged her The Times of Israel
- Former hostage Mia Schem accuses Tel Aviv fitness trainer of drugging and raping her Ynetnews
Trump says ‘I don’t know’ when asked if he backs US due process rights
US president makes comments in interview with NBC's Meet the Press after being asked about deportation of immigrants.
Dozens killed in U.S. strike on purported detention center in Yemen, visuals show – The Washington Post
- Dozens killed in U.S. strike on purported detention center in Yemen, visuals show The Washington Post
- Dozens of African migrants killed in US strike on Yemen, Houthis say BBC
- US airstrikes on Sanaa injure 14 - report The Jerusalem Post
- Yemen's Houthis Grow Bolder Despite US Bombing Campaign Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Animated maps show US-led attacks on Yemen Al Jazeera
Brazil’s ex-President Bolsonaro discharged after three weeks in hospital
Jair Bolsonaro, who lost his re-election bid in 2022, had major abdominal surgery last month.
Trump says he won’t seek a third term
"This is not something I'm looking to do," the US president says about speculation he may try to find a way to run again in 2028.
Trump says he won’t seek a third term
'This is not something I'm looking to do,' Trump says about speculation he may run again in 2028.
NHS in England urged to become ‘early intervention service’ on cancer
Exclusive: Too many people at risk of becoming ‘martyrs’ by not getting symptoms checked as they do not want to burden health service, report warns
Too many people are at risk of becoming “martyrs” by not getting symptoms of cancer checked out because they do not want to burden the NHS, warns a report, which calls for earlier testing to diagnose those at higher risk.
The report, by the health consultancy Incisive Health, sets out ways in which the NHS in England can catch more cancers early and thus save lives by becoming more of an “early intervention service”. It comes as the government draws up its first dedicated cancer strategy since 2015.
Continue reading...Trump says he doesn’t know if he needs to uphold constitutional due process
President also says he sees himself as leaving office at the end of his current term and not seeking a third one
Donald Trump said “I don’t know” when asked if he needed to uphold the US constitution when it comes to giving immigrants the right of due process as he gave a wide-ranging TV interview broadcast on Sunday.
At the same time the US president also said he saw himself as leaving office at the end of his current term and not seeking a third one – something he has not previously always been consistent on even though a third term is widely seen as unconstitutional.
Continue reading...Kidnapped father of French crypto-millionaire rescued
The man in his 50s reportedly had a finger missing when police found him in a house south of Paris.
Kidnapped father of French crypto-millionaire rescued
The man in his 50s reportedly had a finger missing when police found him in a house south of Paris.
What’s the connection between Israeli wildfires and ‘green colonialism’?
Researchers say Israel’s worst wildfires were exacerbated by non-native trees that Israel has been planting for decades.
Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds
US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades
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Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact.
This is the result of a new peer-review study published in the journal Nature that sought to establish a method that would allow courts to quantify the economic loss caused by fossil fuel producers for one kind of climate impact – extreme heat.
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Continue reading...Victorian Labor was bracing for a federal backlash – now Jacinta Allan sees vindication
Despite relentless commentary about the premier’s unpopularity, the state swung even harder to Labor than in 2022, while the Liberal party blame game has begun
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If anyone is as happy as Anthony Albanese right now, it’s Jacinta Allan.
As the federal election results rolled in on Saturday night, one of the biggest surprises came in Victoria – where Labor defied months of grim predictions to strengthen its grip on the state.
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Continue reading...Woman who claims to be Gina Rinehart’s niece calls on billionaire to ‘resolve any doubts’ with DNA test
Naydene Robinson says she hopes to reach an ‘amicable’ settlement that recognises her mother as Lang Hancock’s child
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An Aboriginal woman who believes she is Gina Rinehart’s niece is calling on Australia’s richest person to take a DNA test to prove their family connection.
Naydene Robinson, the daughter of Sella Robinson, who claimed she was fathered by Lang Hancock at Mulga Downs station in the 1930s, says she wants to meet Rinehart and “resolve any doubts” about her links to the Hancock family. Sella’s mother worked as a musterer and in domestic labour at Mulga Downs.
Continue reading...Kidnappers in France target cryptocurrency entrepreneurs for ransom – NPR
- Kidnappers in France target cryptocurrency entrepreneurs for ransom NPR
- Father of crypto entrepreneur rescued from kidnappers after having finger severed CNN
- French police investigate spate of cryptocurrency millionaire kidnappings The Guardian
- Kidnapped father of French crypto-millionaire rescued BBC
- Abducted dad of crypto firm boss freed in French police raid Le Monde.fr
Arts agency terminates dozens of grants after Trump proposes eliminating NEA
National Endowment for the Arts notifies organizations that offers of government grants were terminated
Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed eliminating federal agencies that support arts, humanities and learning.
The cancellation of grant offers were reported from organizations across the US, including a $25,000 offer to a playhouse in Portland, Oregon, hours before the opening of a new production, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
Continue reading...Real Madrid-Celta Vigo: Mbappe brace keeps LaLiga title hopes alive
Madrid see off late comeback by Celta to stay within four points of LaLiga leaders Barca, whom they visit next weekend.
Lewis Capaldi makes surprise return to live performance at charity gig
The Scottish musician breaks health-related hiatus with gig in support of the suicide prevention charity Calm
Lewis Capaldi performed on stage for the first time in two years after making a surprise appearance at a charity gig in Edinburgh to raise funds for suicide prevention.
He appeared on Friday night at the concert – headlined by Tom Walker and Nina Nesbitt– at Edinburgh Assembly Halls, in aid of the charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (Calm).
Continue reading...Israel uses Druze community to justify “interfering in Syria”
“Interestingly, that their [Druze] location in the Golan Heights presents, if you like, a strategic interest for Israel.
AI-generated image of Trump as pope is the latest White House controversy
US President Donald Trump is facing backlash for publishing an AI-generated image of himself as the pope.