UN’s Francesca Albanese defiant amid Israeli pressure and Gaza catastrophe
UN special rapporteur discusses pressure to cancel her role, threats of arrest in Germany, and ongoing Gaza catastrophe.
Moscow has means to bring Ukraine war to ‘logical conclusion,’ Putin says – politico.eu
- Moscow has means to bring Ukraine war to ‘logical conclusion,’ Putin says politico.eu
- Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine AP News
- Putin says Russia has the strength to finish Ukraine operation Reuters
- Ukrainian ambassador to US on Putin’s nuclear weapons comments: ‘He is a threat’ The Hill
- Putin expresses ‘hope’ that nuclear weapons will not be needed in Ukraine Al Jazeera
Biden aides discussed a cognitive test but decided against it, book reveals
Debate around Joe Biden’s mental acuity and his age was a critical issue during the run up to the 2024 election
Joe Biden’s top staff debated the possibility of the embattled Democratic president taking a cognitive test last year as he geared up for re-election but eventually decided against the idea, a new book is set to reveal.
Debate around Biden’s mental acuity and his age was an acute issue during the run up to the 2024 election, which eventually saw Biden step down from his re-election campaign in favor of his vice-president, Kamala Harris.
Continue reading...Israeli soldiers, settlers harass Palestinian activist featured in BBC film
The activist says settlers feel emboldened by the unchecked support given to them by US President Donald Trump.
Elon Musk’s Starbase in Texas will officially become a city
Residents approved incorporating a patch of land as the new municipality in an election on Saturday.
Badenoch says more children, not immigration, will help with ageing population
Conservative leader’s remarks to BBC suggest she may develop policies that encourage women to have more children
People should be having more children rather than the UK relying on immigration to deal with an ageing population, Kemi Badenoch has suggested.
The Conservative leader said the UK needed to answer the question of how we “make sure we can deal with [an] ageing society, people not having enough children”.
Continue reading...‘Starbase’: Residents of Texas site home to Musk’s SpaceX back city status
Overwhelming majority of people who voted to turn base into municipality are employees of Elon Musk's space company.
MSF hospital bombing kills seven people in South Sudan
At least seven people were killed and 20 injured after a Doctors Without Borders hospital was bombed in South Sudan
What led to Mike Waltz’s ouster as Trump’s national security adviser?
The Signal group chat scandal and Waltz's hawkish stance on Iran are being touted as the reasons for his ouster as NSA.
More American Air Defense Is on the Way to Help Ukraine – The New York Times
- More American Air Defense Is on the Way to Help Ukraine The New York Times
- Allies seek deal on more Patriots for Kyiv before NATO summit, source says Reuters
- Ukraine-Russia war live: US to send first Patriot missile systems to Kyiv since Trump-Zelensky Vatican talks The Independent
- Patriot air-defense system based in Israel to be refurbished, sent to Ukraine – NYT The Times of Israel
- US to send refurbished Patriot air defense system from Israel to Ukraine, NYT reports. The Kyiv Independent
No, Trump is not a fascist. He is a hypercapitalist and just as dangerous
Trump wants to free big capital from the constraints of democracy by dismantling it.
French police investigate spate of cryptocurrency millionaire kidnappings
Victims have had fingers chopped off by attackers in crimewave targeting entrepreneurs and their families
French police are investigating a series of kidnappings of investors linked to cryptocurrency after a 60-year-old man had a finger chopped off by attackers who demanded his crypto-millionaire son pay a ransom.
In the latest of several kidnappings of cryptocurrency figures in France and western Europe, the man, who owned a cryptocurrency marketing company with his son, was freed from a house south of Paris on Saturday night. He had been held for more than two days.
Continue reading...US jury’s $30m verdict brings hope for Cuban exiles over confiscated land
Lawsuit brought under Helms-Burton could spur others pursuing compensation for property seized by Castro
Long before it became one of Cuba’s most popular tourist destinations in the 1990s, the small island of Cayo Coco, with its pristine beaches and powdery white sands, attracted a different kind of clientele.
Inspired by its unspoiled beauty, and his observations of shack-dwelling fishermen scratching out a meager living, Ernest Hemingway set scenes from two of his most famous books there, including the 1952 classic The Old Man and the Sea.
Continue reading...Trump faces backlash after posting AI image dressed as pope
Cardinals will gather on May 7 in a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope.
Nearly 290,000 Gaza children on ‘the brink of death’ amid Israeli blockade
Gaza Media Office says some 3,500 children below five ‘face imminent death by starvation' amid Israel’s total blockade.
The Popemobile of Peace: Pope Francis’ final gift to Gaza – Vatican News
- The Popemobile of Peace: Pope Francis’ final gift to Gaza Vatican News
- Pope Francis’s popemobile set to become health clinic for Gaza children CNN
- Francis' 'pope-mobile' being converted into Gaza mobile clinic Fox News
- West Bank popemobile to be transformed into ‘mobile clinic’ for wounded children in Gaza The Times of Israel
- A Popemobile Used by Pope Francis Will Become a Mobile Clinic in Gaza The New York Times
Paramilitaries strike Port Sudan for first time, army says
It is the first time RSF attacks have reached the city, which is the de-facto capital of the army-led government.
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attack airport in Port Sudan
Videos show the moment Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a drone attack on an airbase
Are Yemen’s non-Houthi groups seeking US support to attack the Houthis?
Anti-Houthi forces have lobbied for US support to fight the group. Will they be getting it?
First Image Of Ukraine’s Sidewinder-Armed Magura V7 Surface Drone – navalnews.com
- First Image Of Ukraine’s Sidewinder-Armed Magura V7 Surface Drone navalnews.com
- Ukraine claims it destroyed Russian fighter jet using seaborne drone for the first time CNN
- Ukraine war latest: Two Russian fighter jets destroyed by sea drones as video emerges The Independent
- Two Russian Fighter Jets Downed by Naval Drone-Launched Missiles: Kyiv Newsweek
- Ukraine war briefing: Maritime drone shoots down Russian fighter jet for first time, says Kyiv The Guardian