Troubling Report Claims America Narrowly Avoided Military Disaster During Brutal Bombing Campaign – OutKick

  1. Troubling Report Claims America Narrowly Avoided Military Disaster During Brutal Bombing Campaign  OutKick
  2. Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia  The New York Times
  3. Exclusive: Houthi ceasefire followed US intel showing militants sought off-ramp  Reuters
  4. Trump operation against Houthis cost more than $1 billion  NBC News
  5. US spent $1bn bombing Yemen but failed to gain air superiority, says report  Middle East Eye
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Colourful price tags at Australian chemists may trick shoppers into buying full-price items, Choice says

Survey from consumer advocacy group finds some customers confused by bright stickers and tags not necessarily advertising actual discounts

Promotional price tags used by major chemists may be enticing shoppers towards products that are not discounted at all, with new research finding bright labels are confusing one in three customers.

Consumer advocacy organisation Choice found that some pharmacies said they were offering discounts from the recommended retail price (RRP) despite having never charged the higher rate, which is a suggestion from the manufacturer.

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‘Turning point’: claw print fossils found in Australia rewrite story of amniotes by 40 million years

The discovery by two local fossil hunters on a river bank in Victoria has ‘potentially far-reaching implications’, scientists say

Fossilised claw prints found in Australia suggest amniotes – the ancestors of reptiles, birds and mammals – evolved about 40m years earlier than thought.

The footprints, in sandstone dated 354m to 358m years old, were probably made by reptiles crossing a surface dimpled by raindrops. Researchers said the trackways represent the oldest evidence of amniotes on the planet.

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Court Sides With New York Times Over Access to E.U. Covid Vaccine Messages – The New York Times

  1. Court Sides With New York Times Over Access to E.U. Covid Vaccine Messages  The New York Times
  2. European Commission wrong to deny release of von der Leyen messages, court says  BBC
  3. Commission's Pfizergate loss hailed as ‘victory for transparency’  Euronews.com
  4. Court rules in favor of The New York Times over texts between the EU chief and a pharma boss  AP News
  5. Politics by WhatsApp? Even ‘Pfizergate’ won’t end that.  politico.eu
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‘Tears blur my vision’: Australian writer jailed in Beijing thanks Albanese for support in emotional letter

Yang Hengjun writes he can ‘only use a silent voice to thank you and all the people who care for and love me’

Jailed Chinese-Australian academic Yang Hengjun has written to Anthony Albanese from his prison cell in Beijing, thanking him for repeatedly expressing Australia’s “grave concerns” about his deteriorating health to Chinese officials.

Yang, who was given a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court in February 2024 after already serving five years in detention on espionage charges that he denies, told the prime minister “words are now failing me”.

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Trump tells Gulf leaders Iran must cease support of proxy groups as part of any nuclear deal – AP News

  1. Trump tells Gulf leaders Iran must cease support of proxy groups as part of any nuclear deal  AP News
  2. Trump offers Iran choice: Drop nuclear weapons or face 'maximum pressure'  Fox News
  3. Iranian minister says Trump’s Tehran accusations are 'pure deception'  ABC News
  4. Trump: Iran must ‘halt its bloody proxy wars’ to strike a nuclear deal  The Hill
  5. Opinion | Trump Faces a Moment of Truth on Iran  WSJ
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Court annuls European Commission’s refusal to disclose COVID texts – Reuters

  1. Court annuls European Commission's refusal to disclose COVID texts  Reuters
  2. Court Sides With New York Times Over Access to E.U. Covid Vaccine Messages  The New York Times
  3. Pfizergate: Will we ever get to see the text messages? ― and other burning questions  politico.eu
  4. EU’s Von der Leyen Loses Court Spat Over Secret Pfizer Texts  Bloomberg.com
  5. European Commission wrong to deny release of von der Leyen messages, court says  BBC
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Trump’s Qatar trip is off to a flying start as Air Force One gets another fighter jet escort – AP News

  1. Trump’s Qatar trip is off to a flying start as Air Force One gets another fighter jet escort  AP News
  2. Trump lands in Qatar after meeting Syrian leader in Saudi Arabia  CNN
  3. Live updates: Trump arrives in Qatar after meeting with Syria’s leader in Saudi Arabia  The Washington Post
  4. Trump administration live updates: President visits Qatar after meeting Syrian leader  NBC News
  5. Trump-Qatar latest: US president lands in Doha after meeting Syrian and Saudi leaders  The Telegraph
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A radar clocked someone going nearly double the speed limit. It turned out to be a duck — and a “repeat offender.” – CBS News

  1. A radar clocked someone going nearly double the speed limit. It turned out to be a duck — and a "repeat offender."  CBS News
  2. Speeding duck: Switzerland traffic cameras catch flying mallard  BBC
  3. Duck caught by Swiss speed camera for the second time  Yahoo
  4. Flying duck caught on speed camera could be repeat offender  Sky News
  5. Fowl play: flying duck caught in Swiss speed trap believed to be repeat offender  The Guardian
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Middle East crisis live: More than 60 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza

Dead include those killed in a strike on the European hospital complex near Khan Younis

Associated Press, citing local hospitals, reports that at least 22 children were killed in Gaza overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday by Israeli airstrikes.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met online with US president Donald Trump, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, Reuters reports, citing Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency.

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Trump says there’s a ‘possibility’ he will attend Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Turkey – live

Kremlin refuses to say whether Russian president will be part of delegation

“I worry a lot about a kind of world war one-type scenario,” former White House Russia adviser Fiona Hill told Lucy Hough, “in which the prevailing system is broken down, and you get a whole outbreak of conflicts that meld together.”

People are always asking: ‘What should we be worried about in the future?’ We should be worried about the here and now.

He wanted a very close relationship with Putin, kept talking about him as his friend, talking about phone calls he had when he hadn’t had phone calls. He’s done this with China as well.

It’s almost as if he’s saying: ‘Please call me.’ He’s laid out every way in which he can be manipulated, and that’s what Putin has done. Putin is an expert in manipulation.

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Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe says Nigel Farage ‘must never be prime minister’

MP accuses ex-colleagues of sinister attempt to silence him as CPS says it will not bring charges over allegations of verbal threats

The former Reform MP Rupert Lowe has accused his ex-colleagues of a “sinister” attempt to use the police to silence him, as he launched a furious attack on Nigel Farage who he said “must never be prime minister”.

Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth who now sits as an independent, made the remarks after the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it would not bring criminal charges over allegations that Lowe made verbal threats in parliament last December.

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Time to suffocate Russia’s economy after 17th EU sanctions package, France says – Reuters

  1. Time to suffocate Russia's economy after 17th EU sanctions package, France says  Reuters
  2. EU unveils Russia sanctions targeting 'shadow' oil fleet and cyberattackers  France 24
  3. Ukraine war briefing: Europe ready with sanctions if no ceasefire after Istanbul talks  The Guardian
  4. EU agrees new sanctions on Russia as Putin refuses ceasefire  Euronews.com
  5. EU backs 17th round of Russia sanctions  politico.eu
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Farage says Starmer ‘learning a great deal from Reform’ as PM defends immigration speech – UK politics live

Reform leader asks PM to declare a national emergency at the borders

Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question at PMQs, which starts at noon.

In March Reform UK reported Rupert Lowe (at the time one of their five MPs) to the police, claiming he had threatened the party chair, Zia Yusuf, with violence. Reform UK announced the news shortly after Lowe gave a newspaper interview criticising Nigel Farage, the party leader,

Following a thorough and detailed review of the evidence in relation to an allegation of threats, we have decided that no criminal charges should be brought against a sitting MP.

Having considered a number of witness statements, we have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.

If Farage were ever to control the vast power of the British state, I believe he would not hesitate to do to his adversaries what they have tried to do to me. With real power, I fear he would wield that immense responsibility to crush dissent - as he has done time and again over the years …

Please listen when I say this: For the good of our country, Nigel Farage must never be prime minister.

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