- Trump's Intimidation of U.S. Allies Is Creating a Dangerous, Unstable World Haaretz
- Donald Trump is remaking the world. But he really won’t like the result | Nesrine Malik The Guardian
- Trump has put America’s allies in an impossible position. That might be where he likes them CNN
- Trump's hatchet signals the death of American soft power Axios
- Trump Is Changing the World Order With Unprecedented Speed The Wall Street Journal
‘Best of the best’: Robbie Williams buys Eric Morecambe’s glasses for £20,000
Singer says he cried ‘happy, childlike tears’ after placing winning bid on late comedian’s glasses and pipe at auction
Robbie Williams has said he bought Eric Morecambe’s glasses for £20,000 at auction as the comedian was an “uncle of sorts” whose “spirit has been salve for my soul”.
The singer said he cried “happy, childlike tears” after winning the bidding war last month with a final offer far exceeding the £2,000 to £4,000 estimate.
Continue reading...Dozens of Maoist Guerrillas Killed in Central India, Officials Say – The New York Times
- Dozens of Maoist Guerrillas Killed in Central India, Officials Say The New York Times
- Dozens of suspected Maoist rebels killed by security forces in central India CNN
- 31 Maoists, two securitymen die in fierce Bastar gunbattle The Times of India
- 81 Naxal deaths and counting: What explains the rise in anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh? The Indian Express
- India kills dozens of Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh battle DW (English)
Trump says he has spoken with Putin about ending Ukraine war
Trump tells the New York Post that he has a plan to end the war but declined to go into details
Donald Trump has said he held talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over a negotiated end of the three year Russia-Ukraine war, indicated that Russian negotiators want to meet with US counterparts.
Trump told the New York Post that he had spoken to Putin, remarking that “I better not say” just how many times.
Continue reading...‘Time running out’ for UK to apologise over forced adoptions
Campaigners demand government issue formal apology to women forced to give up their babies in 1950s-70s
Time is running out for the UK government to issue a formal apology to women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, campaigners have warned.
Most of the estimated 185,000 women involved in forced adoptions are now in their 70s and 80s, and some have died without an apology on behalf of the state being issued.
Continue reading...‘Virgin River’ Actor Issues Statement After Mother, Stepfather Discovered Dead At French Home – Deadline
- ‘Virgin River’ Actor Issues Statement After Mother, Stepfather Discovered Dead At French Home Deadline
- Virgin River 's Callum Kerr Mourns Mom and Stepdad Who Were Found Dead Yahoo
- British Couple, Including Actor's Mom, Is Found Brutally Slain in Rural France Home PEOPLE
- Briton seen buying chocolate and lottery tickets hours before he and wife found dead in French hamlet The Independent
- British couple’s mysterious death in France leaves father with ‘a thousand questions’ The Independent
Trump says he’s talked with Putin about ending Ukraine war – Axios
- Trump says he's talked with Putin about ending Ukraine war Axios
- Trump pushes for quick end to Ukraine war, but much could go very wrong CNN
- Kremlin Declines to Confirm or Deny Putin Call Trump Hints At Bloomberg
- Trump peels back the curtain (a little) on his chats with Putin MSNBC
- Can Trump keep his promise to end the war in Ukraine? It’s possible – but it won’t be easy | Christopher Chivvis The Guardian
Saudi Arabia slams Netanyahu’s suggestion it should host Palestinian state
The kingdom reiterated that 'the Palestinian people have a right to their land' and cannot be 'expelled'.
Health concerns and outrage mark fifth Gaza ceasefire prisoner swap
At least eight Palestinians were taken to hospital upon their release from Israeli jails during the fifth prisoner swap.
Retirees who rent ‘really struggling’ financially, researchers say – and the problem is getting worse
Two-thirds of retirees in private rentals live in poverty, Grattan report finds, with more than half reporting net worth of less than $25,000
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Two in three retirees who rent privately owned homes live in poverty and the problem will get worse, a new report has found.
Most older working Australians who rent do not have sufficient savings to keep paying rent in their retirement, according to the report from the Grattan Institute.
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Continue reading...‘I just didn’t see mess’: help emerges for children of parents who hoard
Local authorities urged to intervene earlier and charity preparing to launch dedicated support group
“I don’t remember ever having had a home-cooked meal,” says Richard, crunching over the food wrappers and crushed cardboard boxes that cover his mother’s kitchen floor.
He glances at the broken cooker, cracked microwave and windows blocked by piles of unwashed mugs, some inexplicably tightly wrapped in cellophane. There are no clear surfaces. Blackened, disintegrating cabinets sag under yet more wreckage. Not an inch of floor can be seen.
Continue reading...‘Be courageous witnesses of God’s love,’ Pope Francis tells armed forces at jubilee Mass – Catholic News Agency
Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK
Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers
More than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution, the Guardian can reveal.
Exposure to toxic air was attributed to 515 men and 590 women in the UK in 2022 getting adenocarcinoma – now the most dominant of the four main subtypes of lung cancer – an analysis by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency found.
Continue reading...Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown
And the only way to resist it is grassroots mobilisation against the all-powerful broligarchy.
Russia Probes Explosion on Oil Tanker – The Moscow Times
- Russia Probes Explosion on Oil Tanker The Moscow Times
- Explosions Hit Russia Shadow Fleet Tanker Docked Near Putin's Home City Newsweek
- Explosion damages ‘shadow fleet’ oil tanker in Russian port Meduza
- Tanker Suffers Engine Room Explosion at Russian Port of Ust-Luga The Maritime Executive
- Finland Braces for Potential Oil Spill After Tanker Explosion in Northwestern Russia The Moscow Times
Syrian Finance Minister: Renaissance or false hope?
Syria's Mohammed Abazeed on the transitional government's recovery plan.
Swiss Vote Rejects Placing Ecology At Heart Of Constitution – Barron’s
- Swiss Vote Rejects Placing Ecology At Heart Of Constitution Barron's
- Swiss Voters Reject Emission Curbs Over Economic Concerns Bloomberg
- Swiss voters reject green overhaul of economy SWI swissinfo.ch in English
- 9 February 2025 environment vote rejected Le News
- From Courtrooms to Ballot Boxes: Switzerland’s Ongoing Debate on Environmental Limits and Economic Growth EJIL: Talk!
Emilia Pérez wins top Spanish film prize amid Karla Sofía Gascón furore
Best European film at Goya awards goes to musical at centre of storm over past social media posts written by its star
The multi-Oscar-nominated narco-musical Emilia Pérez, whose success has been overshadowed by the emergence of a series of racist and Islamophobic social media posts written by its star, Karla Sofía Gascón, won best European film at Spain’s prestigious Goya awards on Saturday night.
Gascón, the first out transgender woman to be nominated for a best actress Oscar, stayed away from the ceremony after posts came to light in which she called George Floyd “a drug addict swindler”, denigrated China, and said Islam was “becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity”.
Continue reading...Why Trump blinked before imposing his ‘beautiful’ tariffs on Canada and Mexico
Trump has teased two of the US’s biggest trading partners with levies but has moved the goalpost at least three times in two weeks
Donald Trump was in his element in the Oval Office this week. Surrounded by cameras, flanked by billionaire allies and confronted by a barrage of questions about whether he was really prepared to unleash a trade war on the US’s closest neighbors, the president talked tough.
By his telling, powerful economies were scrambling to bend to his will. Hours earlier, Mexico had announced a series of measures to shore up its border, prompting the White House to hastily postpone the imposition of 25% tariffs on all its goods; Canada would announce similar measures, and receive the same reprieve, later that day.
Continue reading...Slave Scammers | True Crime Reports
Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in scamming farms across Southeast Asia.