- Taliban Arrest Women for Dress Code Violations Newser
- Afghan women facing arrest for dress code violations: UN DW.com
- Afghanistan: Women face fresh dress code arrests amid record refugee returns UN News
- Faiq at UN Calls for End to Arbitrary Detentions, Torture and Killings in Afghanistan 8AM Media
- UN rights council slams Taliban's 'oppression' of women Al-Monitor
What is the Mecca defence pact?
Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan are activating their defence pact to counter attacks from Yemen’s Houthis.
Polls close in Holborn and St Pancras byelection as Labour hopes to retain seat
Contest seen as test of Andy Burnham’s ability to unite Labour voters amid threat from Green party’s Zack Polanski
Polls have closed in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, a contest seen as a test of Andy Burnham’s ability to unite Labour’s voters or whether Zack Polanski can peel off support from the party’s progressive flank.
Labour is seeking to retain Keir Starmer’s former north London seat, where he won a majority of more than 11,000 votes in the 2024 general election, in what has become a measure of the political landscape under Burnham, months into his premiership.
Continue reading...South Africa protests turn violent amid rage over asylum ruling – Al Jazeera
- South Africa protests turn violent amid rage over asylum ruling Al Jazeera
- South Africa blames disinformation as anti-migrant protests turn violent Reuters
- Anti-immigrant mob is fuelling the dangerous anti-constitutionalist fire Daily Maverick
- South Africa: Anti-migrant protests turn violent DW.com
- Vehicles torched in South Africa as protests over asylum ruling rage on AP News
US charges Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro over torture allegations
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores face a new US charge over alleged torture.
South Africa protests turn violent amid rage over asylum ruling
Several cars torched and foreign-run businesses forced to shut in Johannesburg's Soweto and coastal city of Durban.
Men accused of shooting Australian surfer brothers and US friend dead in Mexico to learn fate as trial concludes
Martin and Debra Robinson, the brothers’ parents, will address the court before a Mexican judge hands down the verdict
A Mexican judge is expected to hand down his verdict on Thursday in the high-profile murder trial of three men accused of killing two Australian surfers and their American friend in 2024.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33 respectively, and their friend Carter Rhoad, 30, were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Pacific coast when they were shot dead in Baja California state in an alleged robbery.
Continue reading...Israel shuts down British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem
The British government says it will retain its presence in occupied East Jerusalem after Israel removed its consulate.
U.S. Makes F-35 Push As Portugal Weighs F-16 Replacement – TWZ
- U.S. Makes F-35 Push As Portugal Weighs F-16 Replacement TWZ
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel at a Joint Press Availability U.S. Department of State (.gov)
- Portugal seriously considers US F-35 jets along with other options Reuters
- Rubio says US pressure on NATO allies to boost defense spending is ‘not hostile’ AP News
- Rubio visits Portugal, praising a 'great ally' and looking to build deeper ties ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
Jared Kushner, 45, Drops Stunning Admission About His Education – The Daily Beast
Thousands march in Madrid after death of evicted pensioner Maricarmen
Rally to remember woman, 87, whose rent battle with investment firm triggered nationwide protests over housing crisis
About 20,000 people took part in a march through the centre of Madrid on Thursday evening in memory of María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her flat in the capital a fortnight before her death triggered mass protests over Spain’s housing crisis.
The pensioner, whose flat had been bought by an investment firm that sought to increase her rent by 230%, had become the public face of the crisis before her death in hospital on Wednesday night.
Continue reading...How much worse can Yemen’s humanitarian crisis become?
UN says fighting has displaced more than 200,000 people in five weeks.
Hurricane Isaias forecast to bring dangerous storm surge, with millions under warnings in US
Residents in areas from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Florida urged to ‘evacuate if told to do so’
Millions of people from Louisiana to Florida are under hurricane warnings on Thursday as Hurricane Isaias heads toward the US Gulf coast, with weather officials warning of dangerous storm surge, hurricane-force winds, heavy rainfall and flooding.
Isaias intensified from a tropical storm into the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season on Wednesday night, and has prompted state of emergency declarations in Florida, Alabama and Georgia, as well as evacuation orders and school closures in several Florida counties as officials urge residents to prepare for its arrival.
Continue reading...Israeli settlers take Palestinian olives, and their harvest traditions
As Israeli settlers harvest olives on Palestinian land, farmers face growing violence and loss of an ancient tradition.
Golden statue depicting Trump nude appears at European Parliament – The Hill
- Golden statue depicting Trump nude appears at European Parliament The Hill
- ‘King of Injustice’: Golden naked Trump statue installed at European Parliament CNN
- ‘The Orange Plague’: Why a golden, naked Trump is sitting on another man The Times of India
- Naked Trump statue goes on display in Strasbourg DW.com
- Artist unveils golden statue of a nude Donald Trump at European parliament building The Art Newspaper
Protesters blame ‘vulture funds’ for Spain’s housing crisis
Hundreds have pitched their tents in central Madrid, while the Spanish prime minister has called a snap election.
DoJ seeks to charge ex-Trump aide who gave key testimony on January 6 attack
Cassidy Hutchinson told panel she had been told Trump lunged for wheel of SUV to try to join mob at Capitol
Prosecutors in the justice department’s civil rights division are seeking criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top Trump White House aide who gave explosive testimony to the committee that investigated the US attack on the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The potential charges involve lying to Congress, the person said.
Continue reading...Iran executes protester just hours after he married bride in prison wedding over the phone – New York Post
- Iran executes protester just hours after he married bride in prison wedding over the phone New York Post
- Iranian protester hanged hours after marrying his imprisoned fiancée over jail phone line Fox News
- Spared, married, hanged: the last weeks of Iranian protester Alireza Sepahi Yahoo
- Till death us do part: Iran’s prisoners marry before the gallows The Times
- Iran protester recounts torture, mock execution after January arrest Iran International
Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture of US citizens
Ousted Venezuelan president and Cilia Flores have been in jail in New York since early January
The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted for alleged conspiracy to commit torture, according to Manhattan federal court papers unsealed on Thursday.
The superseding indictment was unsealed shortly before Flores appeared at court in her ongoing push for pretrial release – which was denied by Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Maduro and Flores have been jailed in New York City since early January.
Continue reading...Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away
Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a mysterious flash of energy was released into the universe.
Astronomers have now detected that flash – a burst of radio waves which travelled for more than 10bn years before reaching Earth – what they believe to be the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded.
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