- Norway Seizes Russian-Crewed Ship Suspected of Cutting an Undersea Cable The New York Times
- Baltic Sea Cable Incidents Pile Up—Who Is To Blame? Forbes
- Europe’s undersea infrastructure keeps getting damaged. What’s going on? CNN
- Norway stops a ship suspected of involvement in damage to a Baltic Sea cable The Associated Press
- Second ship seized in Baltic Sea cable damage investigation Sky News
The Maga backlash against Trump’s crypto grab: ‘This is bad, and looks bad’
Trump’s meme coin has some conservatives complaining over ‘most blatant ponzi scheme in history’
When Donald Trump announced – three days before assuming the presidency of the United States, and followed shortly by Melania Trump – that he was launching a self-named “meme coin” cryptocurrency, many in the crypto industry were quick to express frustration. Ethics experts were also alarmed.
Among Trump’s base, however, a similar backlash – smaller, more muted, but similarly anguished – has been taking hold.
Continue reading...Britain’s favourite fish at risk of wipeout within decades, predicts report
Brown trout unlikely to survive in most rivers at height of summer by 2080, says Environment Agency
It has been native to Britain for thousands of years and was heralded as the national fish on the BBC’s Springwatch, but a government report suggests the brown trout risks being wiped out in large parts of England within decades.
The first national temperature projections for English rivers by the Environment Agency forecasts that by 2080 the water will be too warm almost everywhere in England at the height of summer for the Salmo trutta species to feed and grow.
Continue reading...AstraZeneca axes £450m vaccine plant in Liverpool, blaming state funding cut
Days after Rachel Reeves highlighted life sciences as UK strength, firm decides against site expansion
AstraZeneca has cancelled plans for a £450m expansion of its manufacturing plant in Speke, Merseyside, blaming a cut in the funding on offer from the government.
Only two days after Rachel Reeves highlighted life sciences as a key UK strength, in a speech setting out her plans to kickstart economic growth, the company said it had decided to pull its investment.
Continue reading...Pardoned January 6 attacker sentenced to 10 years for fatal drunk-driving crash
Emily Hernandez, 24, killed Victoria Wilson, 32, and injured her husband in a 2022 Missouri wreck
One of the US Capitol attackers pardoned by Donald Trump at the start of his second presidency has been handed a 10-year prison sentence for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash, according to authorities.
Emily Hernandez served 30 days in federal prison after she joined the mob of Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 and was photographed holding the broken nameplate of Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker at the time.
Continue reading...WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware
Messaging app said it had ‘high confidence’ some users were targeted and ‘possibly compromised’ by Paragon Solutions spyware
Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today.
The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had “high confidence” that the users in question had been targeted and “possibly compromised”.
Continue reading...Egyptian protesters reject Trump’s Palestinian resettlement plan
Crowds gathered on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing to protest Trump’s Palestinian removal plan.
North Korean troops pulled back from frontline after heavy losses, Ukrainian officials say – CNN
- North Korean troops pulled back from frontline after heavy losses, Ukrainian officials say CNN
- North Korean Troops in Russia Taken off Front Lines The New York Times
- North Koreans 'blow themselves up with grenades rather than risk capture', say Ukraine soldiers Sky News
- North Korean Troops Pulled From Kursk Front Line Amid Heavy Losses – NYT The Moscow Times
- Ukraine special forces say N.Korean troops not seen at front in three weeks Reuters
Father of youngest hostage among three men to be released on Saturday, Hamas says
Yarden Bibas and two others will be exchanged for more Palestinian prisoners in the fourth swap since the ceasefire began.
DC plane crash: What we know about the victims and ongoing investigation
Young figure skaters Spencer Lane and Jinna Han were on the American Airlines flight that collided with the Black Hawk.
York Minster congregation outraged over ‘deeply inappropriate’ concert
Gig at cathedral by metal band Plague of Angels would be ‘outright insult’ to their faith, say parishioners
First there was a silent disco at Canterbury Cathedral. Then there was the “rave in the nave” in Peterborough.
But York Minster is taking it one step further by hosting a controversial metal band in what parishioners have called an “outright insult” to their faith.
Continue reading...Surviving breast cancer was enough – Patsy didn’t want to undergo early menopause as well
Study finds too few women are told chemotherapy can cause early menopause – or given the drug that can lessen that risk
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When Patsy Mullen was diagnosed with breast cancer, she had no idea that chemotherapy treatment could lead to early onset menopause.
It was Mullen’s oncologist who mentioned the possibility, and offered the then 47-year-old the drug Goserelin, which reduces the risk by up to 70% compared with women receiving chemotherapy alone.
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Continue reading...Australia tried to influence other countries and Unesco to keep Great Barrier Reef off in-danger list
Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia show a sustained strategy approved by environment minister Tanya Plibersek
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The Australian government carried out an international lobbying campaign to keep the Great Barrier Reef off a list of world heritage sites in danger, including dispatching politicians and officials to Unesco’s Paris headquarters and asking diplomats to gather intelligence on countries that could influence the decision.
The campaign is revealed in documents released to the Greens after a parliamentary request and show how Australia sought to influence Unesco and members of the 21-country world heritage committee in the lead up to a crunch meeting in July last year.
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Continue reading...Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States: Chris Hedges
Marc Lamont Hill speaks with the former war correspondent about liberal democracy and Trump’s second term.
Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko gets himself reelected for 7th consecutive term – Kyiv Independent
- Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko gets himself reelected for 7th consecutive term Kyiv Independent
- 'Don't overdo it, Steve': BBC journalist in testy exchange with Belarus president BBC.com
- After Lukashenko's latest sham election, exiled Belarusians reflect on their lost revolution Kyiv Independent
- Teflon Lukashenko is elected again in Belarus. What now? Responsible Statecraft
- Belarus president set to extend 30-year rule as critics slam ‘sham’ election CNN
Hamas to release Israeli father amid ‘grave concerns’ for wife and children – The Guardian
- Hamas to release Israeli father amid ‘grave concerns’ for wife and children The Guardian
- Hamas to Free Yarden Bibas, Israeli Father Whose Family Was Taken Hostage The New York Times
- Israel said to demand Hamas clarify status of hostages Shiri Bibas and her two kids The Times of Israel
- First American hostage to be released from Gaza, Hamas says Fox News
- American Keith Siegel among three hostages named by Hamas for release NBC News
Trafigura and Ex-COO Convicted of Bribery by Swiss Court – Bloomberg
- Trafigura and Ex-COO Convicted of Bribery by Swiss Court Bloomberg
- Former Trafigura executive Mike Wainwright convicted in bribery case BBC.com
- Trafigura’s former chief operating officer sentenced to 32 months in jail Financial Times
- Swiss criminal court convicts commodities firm Trafigura in Angola bribery case The Hill
- Swiss court to rule on landmark Trafigura corruption case Yahoo Finance
Rescuers in Japan struggle to save truck driver trapped in sinkhole for three days – Euronews
- Rescuers in Japan struggle to save truck driver trapped in sinkhole for three days Euronews
- Rescuers in Japan Try to Reach Driver Trapped in Sinkhole For Days The New York Times
- Teams Are Still Trying to Rescue Truck Driver Swallowed by Sinkhole in Japan PEOPLE
- Massive sinkhole swallows truck; rescuers race to reach driver The Washington Post
- Fears grow in Japan for truck driver trapped in sinkhole for third day The Guardian
Champions League draw: Real Madrid face Man City in playoff
Defending champions Real Madrid face the team they replaced as holders, Man City, following the draw in Switzerland.
Rwanda-backed rebels vow to take DRC capital after claiming capture of Goma
M23 rebels promise to march to Kinshasa as they capture Goma and advance towards Bukavu in eastern DR Congo.