- Iran executes man accused of helping Israel kill Revolutionary Guards colonel The Guardian
- Iran hangs man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad Al Jazeera
- Iran Executes Alleged Israeli Spy Tied To Killing Of Senior Military Officer Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Tel Aviv cancels this evening’s Independence Day events The Times of Israel
- Iran hangs man as ‘high ranking’ Israeli spy after trial South China Morning Post
Blair’s net zero intervention invites scrutiny of his institute’s donors
Labour insider rebukes ‘tech bros’ within Tony Blair Institute as critics question past work with petrostates
In little more than 1,600 words voicing his scepticism over net zero policies, Tony Blair this week propelled himself and his increasingly powerful institute back into the national debate.
In the past eight years, the former prime minister has built a global empire employing more than 900 people across more than 40 countries, providing policy advice to monarchs, presidents and prime ministers.
Continue reading...King Charles says cancer diagnosis made him ‘one of the statistics’
Charles reveals his experience has deepened his admiration for charities supporting the 390,000 cancer cases each year
The king has reflected on his experience with cancer, saying has brought into “sharp focus the very best of humanity”, while acknowledging that each new case is “a daunting and at times frightening experience” for those receiving a diagnosis and for their loved ones.
In a personal written message, released to coincide with a Buckingham Palace reception celebrating organisations that help people with the disease, he described himself as one of the “statistics” among the 390,000 who “sadly” receive a cancer diagnosis in the UK each year.
Continue reading...EU readies ‘plan B’ should Trump walk away from Ukraine talks – Financial Times
- EU readies ‘plan B’ should Trump walk away from Ukraine talks Financial Times
- How does Europe want the Ukraine war to end? dw.com
- If Trump abandons Ukraine, can Europe help Kyiv fight on? The clock is ticking to answer that AP News
- If America Walks Away From Ukraine, What Will Europe Do? The New York Times
- EU readies 'plan B' should Trump walk away from Ukraine talks, FT reports Reuters
Meta to report quarterly earnings amid tariff uncertainty and AI investment
Wall Street is projecting the company will post $41.36bn in revenue on $5.21 in earnings per share
Meta is set to report its first quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell, and investors will be looking for news on whether the company met its quarterly revenue goals of somewhere between $39.5bn and $41.8bn.
Wall Street is projecting the company will post $41.36bn in revenue on $5.21 in earnings per share.
Continue reading...Downing Street forces Tony Blair to row back from net zero strategy criticism
Labour politicians warn former PM had boosted Tory and Reform climate sceptics on the eve of local elections
Tony Blair has been forced by Downing Street to row back from his criticism of the government’s net zero strategy after furious Labour politicians warned he had given a boost to Tory and Reform sceptics on the eve of the local elections.
Climate experts also accused the former prime minister of granting political cover to fossil fuel interests and weakening momentum behind the UK’s legally binding target to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
Continue reading...King Charles opens up about cancer diagnosis and treatment – NBC News
- King Charles opens up about cancer diagnosis and treatment NBC News
- King Charles reflects on ‘darkest moments’ of cancer diagnosis CNN
- 'King's cancer message' and 'No way... Not hymn' BBC
- King Charles says cancer diagnosis made him ‘one of the statistics’ The Guardian
- King Charles Issues Message of Support to Fellow Cancer Patients The New York Times
Columbia protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi released from US custody
Mahdawi is among the student protesters targeted for deportation under President Trump for pro-Palestine advocacy.
With song and seed, Brazil’s Indigenous Maxakali confront climate change
The Atlantic Forest used to blanket Maxakali territory. But as the forest disappears, the group faces intense heat.
Cancer patients in England to be first in Europe to be offered immunotherapy jab
Up to 15,000 could be given nivolumab in injectable form to treat 15 cancers including lung, bowel and skin cancer
Up to 15,000 cancer patients a year could be treated with a quick injection, NHS England has announced.
It is the first health service in Europe to offer patients the injectable form of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab.
Continue reading...Automakers suspend financial guidance amid tariff uncertainty
Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen join GM and Volvo, who suspended guidance earlier this week.
Gen Z is so miserable they’ve flattened the long-established happiness curve – Fortune
- Gen Z is so miserable they've flattened the long-established happiness curve Fortune
- Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy? The Atlantic
- Young People Are Not As Happy As They Used to Be, Study Finds The New York Times
- How to flourish –– even when you aren’t at your happiest, according to research CNN
- Measuring the Good Life Christianity Today
Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahdawi released
Columbia University student activist Mohsen Mahdawi was freed on bail Wednesday from custody in Vermont.
Minister warns against blaming Spain’s blackout on renewable energy
Spain’s environment minister Sara Aagesen promises ‘complete audit’ into causes of power outage
Spain’s environment minister has warned against attempts to blame Monday’s unprecedented blackout across the Iberian peninsula on the increasing use of renewable energy, defending the reliability of the national grid and promising a “complete audit” to establish the causes of the outage.
Speaking on Wednesday afternoon as a specially designated committee prepared to meet to investigate the blackout, Sara Aagesen pushed back at opposition parties’ claims that the socialist-led government’s drive to embrace renewable energy had compromised the grid’s stability.
Continue reading...What happens to the children of deportees from the US?
As the Trump administration deports tens of thousands, what happens to the children separated from their parents?
Arson suspect arrested as authorities probe whether massive fires were started on purpose – The Times of Israel
- Arson suspect arrested as authorities probe whether massive fires were started on purpose The Times of Israel
- Wildfires in Israel Force Towns Near Jerusalem to Evacuate The New York Times
- Drivers abandon vehicles after wildfire engulfs Israeli highway Al Jazeera
- Israel Ablaze in National Emergency Believed To Be Terrorist Act The Media Line
- Wildfires rage near Jerusalem, major road closed, communities evacuated Reuters
Kristi Noem says Kilmar Ábrego García would be deported immediately if sent back to US
US homeland security secretary said Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador ‘not under our control’
Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, said that if Kilmar Ábrego García was sent back to the US, the Donald Trump administration “would immediately deport him again”.
Noem repeated White House assertions about Ábrego García, a Salvadorian man who the Trump administration has admitted was mistakenly deported from Maryland last month, in a new interview with CBS.
Continue reading...The U.S. backs Israel’s ban on the U.N.’s Palestinian aid agency at the World Court – NPR
- The U.S. backs Israel's ban on the U.N.'s Palestinian aid agency at the World Court NPR
- Israeli foreign minister slams UN, calls it 'rotten, anti-Israel, and antisemitic body' Fox News
- Israel has no duty to allow UN aid agency into Gaza, says US state department lawyer The Guardian
- Palestinian envoy tells UN court Israel is killing Gaza civilians. Israel says it’s being persecuted AP News
- US defends Israel at The Hague JNS.org
Kardashian jewel heist: ‘Grandpa robber’ partly driven by taste for easy money, court hears
Aomar Aït Khedache, 68, has admitted involvement in armed robbery of reality TV star but denies being ringleader
A retired restaurant owner alleged to have been the ringleader of an armed robbery of American reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris, has told a court he was in part driven by a taste for easy money.
Aomar Aït Khedache, 68, known as “Old Omar”, has admitted to police that he took part in the robbery in which Kardashian was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint in her Paris hotel bedroom during Paris fashion week in 2016. But he has denied the prosecution’s accusation that he was the organiser or ringleader of the jewel heist in the early hours of 3 October 2016, which was the biggest robbery of an individual in France in 20 years.
Continue reading...Swedish police detain 16-year-old after three killed in Uppsala shooting
Teenager held on suspicion of murder after attack at hair salon in university city, say prosecutors
A 16-year-old has been detained on suspicion of shooting and killing three people in the city of Uppsala, according to Sweden’s prosecution authority.
“An intensive investigation is under way. We are now gathering information and the police are conducting door-to-door inquiries and interviewing witnesses,” the authority said in a statement. In addition, mobile phones and other material that have been seized are being analysed.”
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