Israeli attacks kill two more as Syria government reaches deal with Druze
Israel has accused Syria of failing to protect the Druze as Israeli forces occupy and attack parts of the country.
Hamas releases new video of hostage Maxim Herkin after 575 days in captivity – Ynetnews
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Labour targets international students claiming asylum after losses to Reform in local elections
Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration
Ministers will crack down on international students applying for asylum in the UK in a move designed to tackle migration figures, after a series of bruising losses to Reform in the local elections.
An immigration white paper setting out the proposed reforms in mid-May will include measures to bring down the numbers of UK student visa holders who make asylum claims, the Guardian understands.
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Fear, pain, and a little hope: Volunteer doctors in Gaza
Four doctors take Al Jazeera through their days helping people in Gaza's beleaguered Nasser Hospital.
Australian election: Anthony Albanese claims a piece of history as scale of Labor victory stuns raucous crowd | Josh Butler
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It might have been the surprise packet of the night, but Labor picked up as early as January that it had a sniff in Dickson.
Early in the evening – hours before Anthony Albanese raised workers’ rights, housing, gender equality, childcare, the NDIS and Indigenous reconciliation as the priorities of his second-term Labor government – the hundreds-strong crowd at his election night party grew round-eyed as results from Dickson started pouring in on the television screens.
Continue reading...Treasury threatens Defra with £4bn bill if Thames Water nationalised
Exclusive: Treasury threat an example of ‘scare tactics’ to help force through private sector deal, sources suggest
Whitehall officials have been at loggerheads over the fate of Thames Water since the Treasury told the environment department that it would have to meet the cost of a multibillion pound temporary nationalisation.
Britain’s biggest water company recently came within days of running out of money. Thames is in a desperate race to find a buyer willing to inject cash, with the US private equity firm KKR in pole position.
Continue reading...At least seven killed in South Sudan hospital bombing: MSF
The UN has warned in recent weeks that the country is on the brink of a new civil war.
Gabon swears in ex-military chief Oligui as president
The former general, who led coup that ended Bongo family's 55-year rule, swept the elections last month.
Why is measles spreading in Canada, Mexico and the US?
The northern Americas are at “high” risk of measles compared with a “moderate” risk globally, according to the WHO.
Scientific societies to do climate assessment after Trump administration dismissed authors
Two groups join forces for peer-reviewed research after key contributors on Congress-mandated report dismissed
Two major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness.
On Friday, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) said that they will work together to produce over 29 peer-reviewed journals that will cover all aspects of climate change including observations, projections, impacts, risks and solutions.
Continue reading...Huge hound and pocket-sized pup: meet-and-sniff with world’s tallest and smallest dogs
Reginald, a great dane, and Pearl, a chihuahua, met after winning their respective Guinness World Records categories
A playdate between the world’s tallest and smallest living dogs went the way of most dog park encounters despite the 3ft (0.91-meter) height difference – lots of tail wagging, sniffing and scampering.
Reginald, a seven-year-old great dane from Idaho, and Pearl, a chihuahua from Florida, are both certified winners in their respective height titles by Guinness World Records. The fact that Reginald is the size of a small horse and Pearl is as small as an apple didn’t stop them from getting along famously.
Continue reading...Australia PM Anthony Albanese wins second three-year term
Labor Party leader becomes the first Australian prime minister to win second consecutive three-year term in two decades.
Zelenskyy says won’t play Putin’s ‘games’ with short truce
Ukrainian president says he and Trump agree that a 30-day ceasefire is the correct first step towards ending the war.
Garcia beaten by Romero in return from doping ban
Ryan Garcia returns from a doping suspension to beat Rolly Romero with a unanimous points decision in New York.
Australia PM Albanese makes stunning comeback with landslide win
Donald Trump loomed large over the election, with comparisons drawn between the US president and defeated opposition leader Peter Dutton.
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 people in Gaza, officials say
Bureij, Beit Lahiya, Gaza City and Khan Younis hit as Israeli government prepares to expand offensive
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 40 people across Gaza during the past 24 hours, civil defence officials in the devastated Palestinian territory said, as Israel’s government prepared to order an expansion of its military offensive.
Nine people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza; another six people died in a separate strike targeting a family home in the northern city of Beit Lahiya; six more died in a strike on a community kitchen in Gaza City, and an overnight attack on the Khan Younis refugee camp killed at least 11 people including three babies up to a year old, the officials said.
Continue reading...We must not let the memory and value of solidarity with refugees be erased
Ten years ago, I watched the residents of Lesbos welcome refugees. Now the public narrative says this was a mistake.
Mass resignations at labor department threaten workers in US and overseas, warn staff – as more cuts loom
Exclusive: Insiders sound alarm over ‘catastrophic’ impact of widespread departures and cuts under Trump
A “catastrophic” exodus of thousands of employees from the US Department of Labor threatens “all of the core aspects of working life”, insiders have warned, amid fears that the Trump administration will further slash the agency’s operations.
The federal agency has already lost about 20% of its workforce, according to employees, as nearly 2,700 staff took retirement, early retirement, deferred resignation buyouts or “fork in the road” departures earlier this year.
Continue reading...‘We’re All in One Ship’: Druse in Syrian Town Rocked by Violence Agree to Disarm Militias – The New York Times
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