French-Haitian panel to study ex-colony’s history
The French president announced the commission on the 200th anniversary of France ordering Haiti to pay a debt for its freedom.
Wesleyan University president says Trump’s antisemitism fight doesn’t protect Jews – NPR
Musk’s SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield
SpaceX-led group is pitching the Pentagon on a ‘subscription model’ for missile defense
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.
Musk’s rocket and satellite company is partnering with the software maker Palantir and the drone builder Anduril on a bid to build key parts of Golden Dome, the sources said, which has drawn significant interest from the technology sector’s burgeoning base of defense startups.
Continue reading...Tropic Air Plane Hijacked by Knife-wielding Man – Newsweek
- Tropic Air Plane Hijacked by Knife-wielding Man Newsweek
- BREAKING NEWS: Violent incident reported on airplane between Corozal and San Pedro Belize News and Opinion on www.breakingbelizenews.com
Travellers warned to expect Tenerife hotel protests
Travellers are warned of disruption as workers stage industrial action over pay and conditions.
US issues warning over new Zambian cyber-security law
The US says a new Zambian law is more intrusive than equivalents in many other countries.
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut – Euronews.com
- Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut Euronews.com
- Photojournalist Fatma Hassona Killed in Gaza Time Magazine
- Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike Deadline
- Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk: Palestinian star of Cannes documentary killed in Israeli missile strike The Independent
- Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed in a strike with 10 of her relatives Le Monde.fr
El Salvador’s president, Trump’s new deportation partner, is a pro-Israel Palestinian – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Syria hopes tourists will return to Palmyra, a World Heritage Site ravaged by war – NPR
Officials demand answers as crews work to restore power after another Puerto Rico blackout – AP News
Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
Democrats press Trump administration to follow supreme court order to bring back Kilmar Ábrego García
Cory Booker plans to travel to El Salvador, a source familiar with the New Jersey senator’s itinerary said, as Democrats seek to pressure the Trump administration to return a wrongly deported Maryland resident.
Booker’s trip to the Central American country would come after the Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen traveled there this week to meet with his constituent Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadorian national deported last month in what the Trump administration acknowledged was an “administrative error”. Despite a supreme court ruling saying his administration must “facilitate” Ábrego García’s return, Trump has refused to take steps to do so, and El Salvador’s government on Wednesday denied Van Hollen a meeting with the deportee.
Continue reading...Trump administration threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the institution of "threatening national security".
IRS reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
Probably illegal move against US’s richest university is latest in Trump’s attack on independence of higher education
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status in what would be a probably illegal move amid Donald Trump’s concerted attack on the independence of US institutions of higher education.
Trump on Tuesday called for Harvard, the US’s oldest and wealthiest university and one of the most prestigious in the world, to lose its tax-exempt status, CNN first reported.
Continue reading...Joshua Craze, Sudan’s World War — Sidecar – New Left Review
- Joshua Craze, Sudan’s World War — Sidecar New Left Review
- As Famine Rages in Sudan, U.S. Aid Remains Scarce The New York Times
- The Guardian view on Sudan’s third year of conflict: a war against civilians | Editorial The Guardian
- Sudan: No respite for civilians amid unrelenting war and aid access barriers UN News
- Sudan rebels declare rival government on anniversary of brutal 2-year war with army CNN
Russia’s Putin, Qatar’s emir discuss Syria and Gaza at Moscow talks
Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria's new leader, would like better relations with Moscow, Qatar said.
Zelensky urges US and Europe to pressure Russia to end war
A Kremlin spokesman dismissed the talks between Ukraine, Europe and the US, which took place in Paris.
Zelensky urges US and Europe to pressure Russia to end war
A Kremlin spokesman dismissed the talks between Ukraine, Europe and the US, which took place in Paris.
Israel’s water war
Pinch Point looks at how Israel uses water as a strategic aim and a weapon of war.
Could Trump invoke Insurrection Act – and what powers would that give him?
Experts debunk claims of Trump declaring martial law, citing legal boundaries and confusion with the Insurrection Act.
Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’
Jennifer Vasquez Sura criticizes DHS’s attempt to smear her wrongly deported husband over 2021 civil protective order
The wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s attempt to smear his character, saying a temporary restraining order against him was “out of caution” and that “he is a loving partner and father” who is being denied justice.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura said she “acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar” when she got the civil protective order in 2021, according to a statement emailed to the Baltimore Sun.
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