- SM-6 Fired At Target Ship Down Under By U.S. Army’s Typhon Launcher The War Zone
- Carrier USS George Washington Joins Talisman Sabre Drills off Australia USNI News
- In the Hills of Australia, Pacific Allies Are Training to Fight China - WSJ The Wall Street Journal
- US Hits Missile Power Milestone Amid China Threat Newsweek
- News - US Army Deploys, Fires Mid-Range Capability During Talisman Sabre 25 DVIDS
20 killed in stampede at Gaza aid site, GHF says – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- 20 killed in stampede at Gaza aid site, GHF says ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Stampede at Gaza aid distribution site kills at least 21, Health Ministry says The Washington Post
- 20 killed in crush at Israeli and US-backed aid site in Gaza, group says CNN
- A crowd surge at an aid site in Gaza run by an Israeli-backed group kills 20 Palestinians AP News
- At least 21 people killed in stampede, suffocation at GHF site in Gaza Al Jazeera
Yemen fighters allied to exiled government claim seizure of tons of Iranian-supplied Houthi weapons – AP News
- Yemen fighters allied to exiled government claim seizure of tons of Iranian-supplied Houthi weapons AP News
- US military says Yemeni force seized Iranian arms shipment bound for Houthis Reuters
- Iran shipments to Houthis a masterclass in AIS manipulation Lloyd's List
- Yemeni exiled government intercepts 750 tons shipment for the Houthis The Jerusalem Post
- Yemeni Partners Successfully Interdict Massive Iranian Weapons Shipment Bound for the Houthis centcom.mil
Video: Hundreds of firefighters fight 2nd-day blaze in northwestern Turkiye
Firefighter teams in trucks, helicopters and planes in northwestern Turkiye battled growing wildfires for a second day.
Cambodia makes 1,000 arrests in latest crackdown on cybercrime – AP News
UK’s anti-corruption champion to visit offshore haven on fact-finding mission
Foreign Office sending Margaret Hodge to British Virgin Islands to investigate slow progress against financial crime
The Foreign Office will dispatch the UK’s anti-corruption champion, Margaret Hodge, to the British Virgin Islands (BVIs) to find out why the offshore haven is dragging its feet on proposals designed to fight financial crime.
Several of the UK’s semi-autonomous British overseas territories missed last month’s deadline to implement new registers of corporate ownership, a measure targeting the secrecy regimes campaigners say benefit criminals and kleptocrats.
Continue reading...‘Sparring in space’ – BBC gains rare access to US base tracking global missile strikes
From their base in Colorado, Space Force units track missiles fired anywhere in the world.
‘Sparring in space’ – BBC gains rare access to US base tracking global missile strikes
From their base in Colorado, Space Force units track missiles fired anywhere in the world.
Cuban minister resigns after saying country has no beggars
Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera said people going through rubbish were doing so by choice to make "easy money".
UN agency sounds alarm as 1 in 10 children in Gaza now malnourished
UNRWA says one in 10 children under the age of five screened at its clinics in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition.
Bear that bit man in Norway roams free after hunt in which wrong animal shot
Search for female and her cubs on hold to campaigners’ relief after court had quashed injunction against cull
The hunt for a brown bear that bit a man on the elbow has been put on hold, the Norwegian environment agency has announced, in a case that angered animal rights campaigners after officials shot the wrong bear.
The agency said on Wednesday it did not now plan to act on a bear-culling order it issued in late June in Jarfjord, near the border with Russia, after a female bear bit a man’s arm, leaving him needing stitches.
Continue reading...Second Israeli ultra-Orthodox party to quit government in blow to Netanyahu
The ultra-Orthodox Shas party says it will leave the government in response to dispute over mandatory military service.
Who are the Druze and why is Israel bombing Syria to ‘protect’ them?
Israel has bombed Syria saying it is acting to ‘protect’ Syria's Druze minority.
US senators exempt HIV/Aids funding from planned spending cuts
While advancing a bill to claw back $9bn in federal spending, lawmakers spare the Pepfar programme from cuts.
Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic takeover by Trump
Forum speakers said Donald Trump’s second term resembles strongman Viktor Orbán’s first years in power
Democrats must organize urgently for the 2026 midterm elections and avoid a “it can’t happen here” mentality to stop Donald Trump from staging a full-scale autocratic takeover, a Hungarian opposition parliamentarian has said.
Katalin Cseh, a critic of Hungary’s strongman prime minister, Viktor Orbán, told a forum on authoritarianism that the central European country’s experience held vital lessons for Trump’s opponents in their attempts to resist his assaults on US institutions and democratic norms since his return to the White House.
Continue reading...US deports five ‘barbaric’ migrants to Eswatini
The five people convicted of serious crimes come from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen, the US says.
Volcano on Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland erupts for ninth time since 2023
Iceland’s weather agency advises residents to stay indoors because of high levels of toxic gas from 1.5-mile fissure
A volcano erupted on Wednesday on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula in the south-west of the country, the ninth eruption in region since the end of 2023.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said the eruption had begun just before 4am local time (05:00 BST), and live video feeds showed lava spewing from a fissure in the ground.
Continue reading...Could axing two national holidays save France from its mountain of debt?
Prime Minister François Bayrou has angered MPs with a bid to cut two public holidays to rescue the country's finances.
Could axing two national holidays save France from its mountain of debt? – BBC
- Could axing two national holidays save France from its mountain of debt? BBC
- France’s premier wants to ax two holidays to boost growth. Non, people say. The Washington Post
- France Proposes Cutting Two Public Holidays to Avert Budget Crisis The New York Times
- Entre Nous - Scrapping two French bank holidays: Unfair or necessary? France 24
- French Budget Is a ‘Ticking Bomb’ for Euro, ING’s Pesole Says Bloomberg
Could axing two national holidays save France from its mountain of debt?
Prime Minister François Bayrou has angered MPs with a bid to cut two public holidays to rescue the country's finances.