Israeli cruise ship turned away from Greek island by Gaza war protest

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Tourists greeted on Syros by banner saying Stop the Genocide and prevented from disembarking

A cruise liner carrying Israeli tourists has been forced to reroute to Cyprus after being turned away from the Greek island of Syros after a quayside protest over the Gaza war.

Around 1,600 Israeli passengers on board the Crown Iris were prevented from disembarking amid safety concerns when more than 300 demonstrators on the Cycladic isle made clear they were unwelcome over Israel’s conduct of the war and treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. A large banner emblazoned with the words Stop the Genocide was held aloft alongside Palestinian flags.

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Starmer under pressure from cabinet to recognise Palestinian statehood

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Exclusive: Wes Streeting among ministers pushing for action after calling Israeli attacks on aid sites ‘intolerable’

Keir Starmer is under pressure from cabinet ministers for the UK to immediately recognise Palestine as a state, as global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza.

The prime minister is understood to have been urged by a number of senior ministers in different cabinet meetings over recent months that the UK should take a leading role in issuing recognition.

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US NATO ambassador warns China over ‘subsidizing’ Russia’s war in Ukraine – The Kyiv Independent

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  1. US NATO ambassador warns China over 'subsidizing' Russia's war in Ukraine  The Kyiv Independent
  2. Opinion: Opinion | Tariff Blitz: Is India Becoming Collateral Damage In Someone Else's War?  NDTV
  3. Trump NATO Envoy Warns China Over ‘Subsidizing’ Russia’s War  Bloomberg
  4. Breakingviews - US can squeeze Russia without ‘secondary tariffs’  Reuters
  5. 'Will crush your economy if…': US Senator Lindsey Graham warns India, China over Russian oil  Hindustan Times
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French culture minister to be tried for alleged corruption while an MEP, source says

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Rachida Dati denies lobbying for Renault-Nissan carmaker

The French culture minister, Rachida Dati, is to go on trial over alleged corruption and abuse of power while she was a member of the European parliament, a judicial source has said.

Dati, 59, who had hoped to run for Paris mayor in next spring’s municipal elections, was charged in 2019 on suspicions she lobbied for the Renault-Nissan carmaking group while an MEP. She has denied the allegations and has repeatedly sought without success to have the charges quashed.

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‘Completely unprecedented’: resident doctors to press ahead with strike

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Wes Streeting says move shows ‘disdain for patients’ while BMA insist pay demands not taken seriously in talks

Wes Streeting has condemned the decision by resident doctors to “recklessly and needlessly” press ahead with strike action, saying it is “completely unprecedented in the history of British trade unionism”.

In a fiery statement after the British Medical Association (BMA) said there was no offer on the table that could avert the industrial action on Friday, the health secretary said resident doctors were offered changes to working conditions and career progression but chose to continue with industrial action.

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Explainer: Why China’s neighbours are worried about its new mega-dam project – Reuters

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  1. Explainer: Why China's neighbours are worried about its new mega-dam project  Reuters
  2. China begins building world's largest dam, fuelling fears in India  BBC
  3. China starts building world’s biggest hydropower dam  theguardian.com
  4. China starts construction of world’s biggest hydropower dam in Tibet  Al Jazeera
  5. China’s $167 Billion Mega-Dam Promises Boost for Green Finance  Bloomberg
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Jeremy Bowen: Israel’s allies see evidence of war crimes in Gaza mounting up – BBC

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  1. Jeremy Bowen: Israel's allies see evidence of war crimes in Gaza mounting up  BBC
  2. Opinion | Israel and Gaza: Is It Genocide?  The New York Times
  3. It is not genocide: A response to Omer Bartov  eJewishPhilanthropy
  4. The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken  New Lines Magazine
  5. In the Not-so-distant Future, Israel Will Have to Reckon With Its War Crimes in Gaza  Haaretz
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Tucker Carlson channels Maga rage over Epstein files – and opens rift with Trump

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As Maga supporters revolt over the Epstein scandal, figures like Tucker Carlson are now a gadfly of the White House’s handling of the controversy

As Donald Trump tries to contain an ugly rift with his own supporters about the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, influential media personalities in the Maga movement face a tricky dilemma.

Should they close ranks with the US president – who has denounced demands for more information on Epstein as a “waste [of] Time and Energy” about “somebody that nobody cares about” – or pick at a political wound that the Trump administration desperately wants to scab over?

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