- Hunger mounts, cemeteries grow in Sudan's besieged al-Fashir Reuters
- Sudan: Thousands resort to eating animal feed to survive in besieged Al Fashir Sky News
- Cholera spreads in North Darfur, 640,000 children under threat, UNICEF warns UN News
- ‘We’re suffering’: People in Sudan’s el-Fasher eat animal fodder to survive Al Jazeera
- El-Fasher: People in Sudan's besieged city face starvation, UN warns BBC
George Osborne says UK has been left behind in cryptocurrency boom
Ex-chancellor criticises hesitant approach to crypto and warns country in danger of missing next surge in market
The UK has been left behind in the cryptocurrency boom and is in danger of missing a second wave of demand, according to the former chancellor George Osborne.
Osborne, who has an advisory role at the crypto exchange firm Coinbase, said the country already missed out on the first generation of crypto because the formerly sceptical US had embraced digital currencies under Donald Trump.
Continue reading...Confused passengers evacuated from Brisbane domestic airport and told to re-screen after metal detector fault
Flights delayed after ‘technical fault with a single metal detector’ but airport says there is no safety or security threat
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Passengers have been evacuated from Brisbane domestic airport and flights have been delayed after a fault with a single metal detector prompted both travellers and staff to be re-screened by security.
Pictures on social media showed large crowds at the airport, with one person saying the “entire place has ground to a halt”.
Continue reading...Unprecedented water crisis in Gaza amid Israeli-induced starvation
Israel’s war has destroyed Gaza’s water supplies, forcing residents to struggle daily for safe drinking water.
Scoop: Gaza is fueling a growing push among Democrats for Palestinian statehood – Axios
- Scoop: Gaza is fueling a growing push among Democrats for Palestinian statehood Axios
- House Democrats sign on to letter urging Trump to recognise Palestinian statehood The Guardian
- Rep. Khanna, progressives push for U.S. recognition of Palestinian state Jewish Insider
- House democrats urge Trump administration to recognise Palestinian state, Axios reports Reuters
- House Democrats Renew Effort Calling for Palestinian Statehood The New York Times
Singapore tycoon pleads guilty in gifts scandal involving ex-minister – Financial Times
- Singapore tycoon pleads guilty in gifts scandal involving ex-minister Financial Times
- Tycoon who helped bring F1 to Singapore pleads guilty in rare graft case CNN
- Singapore: Ong Beng Seng pleads guilty to abetting obstruction of justice BBC
- Billionaire Pleads Guilty in Gift Scandal That Rattled Singapore Bloomberg.com
- Highlights: Ong Beng Seng convicted, sentencing set for Aug 15 CNA
Dozens dead, dozens more missing after migrant boat sinks off Yemen – CBS News
- Dozens dead, dozens more missing after migrant boat sinks off Yemen CBS News
- At least 54 migrants die as boat sinks off Yemen, dozens missing Reuters
- Faced with hardships at home, Ethiopians risk dangerous seas for a better life elsewhere AP News
- Migrant boat capsizes off Yemen, killing more than 60 BBC
- Pope Leo mourns migrants who died in shipwreck off Yemen Vatican News
Trump aide accuses India of financing Russia’s war in Ukraine
White House deputy chief Stephen Miller says it was 'not acceptable' for India to continue to buy Russian oil.
BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off coast of Brazil
Company to carry out more tests on its Santos basin find as it continues shift from renewables back to fossil fuels
BP has made its largest oil and gas discovery of the past 25 years off the coast of Brazil as it continues to shift its focus away from renewables and back to fossil fuels.
The Santos basin oil and gas discovery, which is located in deep waters, is the company’s 10th oil discovery of the year and could be its largest since its discovery at the Shah Deniz gasfield in Azerbaijan in 1999.
Continue reading...Philippines, India hold first joint naval drill in disputed South China Sea
The exercise coincided with President Marcos’s trip to India, where he said he would look to deepen maritime ties.
‘They do not teach us what we need’: Inside the expansion of religious schools for girls across Afghanistan – CNN
- ‘They do not teach us what we need’: Inside the expansion of religious schools for girls across Afghanistan CNN
- Strengthening accountability to women and girls in Afghanistan, July 2025 ReliefWeb
- Rights Experts to Brief Press on Aid Cuts and Taliban Gender Persecution KabulNow
- Denied childhood, denied dreams: Afghanistan’s girls need the world to act Kuwait Times
- A Nation in Silence: The Escalating Violence Against Women in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan Hasht-e Subh Daily
South Korea removes loudspeakers on border with North – DW
- South Korea removes loudspeakers on border with North DW
- South Korea starts removing anti-North Korean loudspeakers on border Reuters
- South Korea begins removing border propaganda speakers in conciliatory gesture toward North AP News
- South Korea removes speakers used to blast K-pop music and propaganda across North Korea border Sky News
- K-pop, weather news, and scraping metal: Behind the sounds unleashed at the Korean border The Indian Express
Beirut Port blast victims say five years later, justice feels a bit closer
The investigation was derailed by political interference, but a new government is trying to get justice back on track.
Relative of photographed boy killed at Gaza aid site can’t find his body
The stepmother of a boy, whose killing was witnessed at a GHF site, is still looking for his body.
South Korea begins removing loudspeakers at North Korean border – ABC News
- South Korea begins removing loudspeakers at North Korean border ABC News
- South Korea begins removing border propaganda speakers in conciliatory gesture toward North AP News
- South Korea removes speakers used to blast K-pop music and propaganda across North Korea border Sky News
- South Korea starts removing anti-North Korean loudspeakers on border Reuters
- South Korea begins removing loudspeakers on border with North to reduce tensions The Guardian
Sall Grover begins federal court appeal against Roxanne Tickle’s gender discrimination case win
Lawyers for founder of Giggle for Girls app says ‘special measure’ under Sex Discrimination Act allows for ‘women-only safe space’
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Giggle for Girls and Sall Grover have begun their appeal to overturn a landmark court decision that found the women-only social media app and its CEO had unlawfully discriminated against Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman.
On Monday, the full court of the federal court heard that Grover’s team believes the app – designed as a “women-only safe space” – constituted a “special measure” under the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA), which allows discrimination with the aim of redressing historical disadvantage between men and women.
Continue reading...Boeing defence workers go on strike in new blow to aviation giant
About 3,200 workers who build F-15 fighter jets and other military aircraft voted to reject the firm's latest contract deal.
Boeing defence workers go on strike in new blow to aviation giant
About 3,200 workers who build F-15 fighter jets and other military aircraft voted to reject the firm's latest contract deal.
Dozens of migrants die in boat capsize off Yemen
Dozens are missing after a boat carrying more than 150 migrants, many believed to be Ethiopian, sank in bad weather.
Migrant boat capsizes off Yemen, killing more than 60 – BBC
- Migrant boat capsizes off Yemen, killing more than 60 BBC
- More Than 60 Migrants Dead After Boat Capsizes Off the Coast of Yemen The New York Times
- More than 140 migrants believed dead as boat capsizes off Yemen The Guardian
- More than 65 refugees and migrants die in boat sinking off Yemeni coast Al Jazeera
- At least 68 African migrants killed after boat capsizes off Yemen coast, U.N. says NPR