- Netanyahu says Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar has been killed Reuters
- Exclusive | Israeli Airstrike That Killed Top Hamas Leader in Gaza Hit Meeting of Top Militants WSJ
- Israel PM says Hamas's Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar has been killed BBC
- Netanyahu says Israel has killed Hamas' Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar Fox News
- Netanyahu gives final confirmation Hamas's Mohammed Sinwar is dead The Jerusalem Post
‘Genocide’: Patrick Dodson condemns Australia’s Aboriginal youth incarceration rates
Former Labor senator also says child removals are a way to ‘eradicate a people from the landscape’
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Former Labor senator Patrick Dodson has condemned the country’s Aboriginal youth incarceration rates and child removals as an ongoing genocide against First Peoples and an “embarrassing sore” on the nation.
“It’s an assault on the Aboriginal people. I don’t say that lightly [but] if you want to eradicate a people from the landscape, you start taking them away, you start destroying the landscape of their cultural heritage, you attack their children or remove their children,” Dodson said.
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Continue reading...No one committed to Paris goals can seriously argue Woodside’s LNG project should operate until 2070
Forty-year extension of North West Shelf gas project granted by environment minister Murray Watt will result in huge greenhouse gas emissions, putting the already degraded Indigenous rock art at risk
We don’t know all the evidence that the new environment minister, Murray Watt, had before him when he decided to approve a 40-year life extension to one of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel developments so that it could run until 2070.
But we do know this. The decision largely turned on whether the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas (LNG) development on the Pilbara’s Burrup Hub can coexist for decades into the future with an incredible collection of ancient Murujuga rock art, some of it nearly 50,000 years old and unlike anything else on the planet.
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Continue reading...Germany and Ukraine reach deal for long-range weapons production
Berlin agrees to help finance construction in Ukraine of weapons that can strike targets inside Russia
Ukraine and Germany have agreed to future military cooperation in which Berlin will help finance long-range weapons production on Ukrainian soil.
The deal came as Zelenskyy warned that Russia had amassed 50,000 troops in the Sumy region bordering Russia, where Vladimir Putin has declared an intention to establish a buffer zone.
Continue reading...Major airline announces $70 fines for one annoying habit in plane aisle – The Mirror US
- Major airline announces $70 fines for one annoying habit in plane aisle The Mirror US
- Turkey Cracks Down on Fliers Who Stand Up Too Soon, Threatening Fines The New York Times
- This country is fining impatient airplane passengers who stand up too early The Washington Post
- Stand up too early when your plane lands? That’ll be £50, please The Guardian
- One country radically cracks down on this type of traveler TheStreet
‘We’ve Been Silent Too Long’: 1,300 Israeli Academics Call to End Gaza War, Citing ‘Moral Collapse’ – Haaretz
- 'We've Been Silent Too Long': 1,300 Israeli Academics Call to End Gaza War, Citing 'Moral Collapse' Haaretz
- ‘We can’t say we didn’t know’: Israeli academics demand end to war on Gaza Al Jazeera
- Families of hostages stage protests on 600th day of Israel-Gaza war The Guardian
- '600 days of unbearable hell': Macron calls for return of Gaza hostages The Jerusalem Post
- Opinion | The Flashing Signals That I Just Saw in Israel The New York Times
Germany and Ukraine sign €5B deal on long-range weapons cooperation – politico.eu
- Germany and Ukraine sign €5B deal on long-range weapons cooperation politico.eu
- Germany's Merz promises to help Ukraine produce long-range missiles BBC
- Merz Says Germany Will Step Up Ukraine Weapons Support as Zelensky Visits The New York Times
- News Wrap: Germany’s chancellor offers to help Ukraine build long-range missile systems PBS
- Germany’s Merz offers to help Ukraine develop its own long-range missiles to hit Russia AP News
Former surgeon gets maximum prison sentence for raping 299 children in France – 14 News
- Former surgeon gets maximum prison sentence for raping 299 children in France 14 News
- French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jail BBC
- French doctor accused of sexually abusing hundreds of children is sentenced to 20 years CNN
- Former doctor sentenced to 20 years for abusing 299 people, mostly children The Washington Post
- Could the French Pedophile Doctor Joël Le Scouarnec Have Been Stopped Earlier? The New York Times
Luis Enrique: The manager behind PSG’s run to UEFA Champions League final
Manager Luis Enrique will try to make 'treble' history as he leads PSG out against Inter in the Champions League final.
Boat capsizes on arrival at Spain’s Canary Islands; seven women, girls die
Local media reports say the small vessel appeared to be packed with more than 100 people.
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire.
“The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak.
Continue reading...Kenyan president apologises to Tanzania over deportation row
It follows growing criticism from Kenyans targeting Tanzania's president over the recent deportation of activists.
Cultural Appreciation or Cultural Appropriation?
Today on The Stream: We dive into the space between cultural appropriation and appreciation.
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, first Arab and African director to win Cannes Palme d’Or, dies aged 95
Chronicle of the Years of Fire took the prize in 1975 for its portrayal of the Algerian war of independence, drawing on his own traumatic history
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, the first Arab and African director to win the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, has died aged 91, his family said Friday.
The film-maker was awarded the prize in 1975 for Chronicle of the Years of Fire, a historical drama about the Algerian war of independence.
Continue reading...Inquiry into deadly chemical plant explosion in China
Investigators in China are working to find the cause of a powerful explosion at a chemical plant that killed 5 people.
Preserving Oualata’s fragile manuscript legacy amid desert threats
Centuries-old manuscripts in Oualata libraries face destruction as desert sands encroach on ancient Mauritanian town.
New US plan for Gaza aid is “not just nonsensical, it’s cruel”
Rami Khouri of the American University of Beirut says Gazans are choosing being starving and being shot
World faces new danger of ‘economic denial’ in climate fight, Cop30 head says
Exclusive: André Corrêa do Lago says ‘answers have to come from the economy’ as climate policies trigger populist-fuelled backlash
The world is facing a new form of climate denial – not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis, the president of global climate talks has warned.
André Corrêa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian diplomat who will direct this year’s UN summit, Cop30, believes his biggest job will be to counter the attempt from some vested interests to prevent climate policies aimed at shifting the global economy to a low-carbon footing.
Continue reading...French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jail
Joel Le Scouarnec, who has admitted his guilt, said last week he neither wanted nor expected to be shown leniency.
Gaza aid chaos condemned by humanitarian leaders
At least 3 people died when thousands of starving Palestinians rushed to an aid distribution point.