- 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.”
Continue reading...Lammy confirms UK and France in talks over Palestine recognition
Two permanent members of UN security council could make move at conference in June on two-state solution
The UK is in discussion with France and Saudi Arabia over the recognition of a Palestinian state at a June conference convened by the two countries on keeping alive the political path to a two-state solution in the Middle East, the UK foreign secretary has said.
David Lammy’s comments mark the first time the UK has acknowledged that a discussion with France about a recognition process around the conference is under way.
Continue reading...South Africa sets up inquiry into apartheid prosecutions
Several apartheid-era atrocities, like murder, have been uncovered but few have made it to court.
South Africa sets up inquiry into apartheid prosecutions
Several apartheid-era atrocities, like murder, have been uncovered but few have made it to court.
Trump blames predecessor as US economy hit by tariff policies
President asks for 'patience' as businesses react negatively to Trump's aggressive efforts to upend global trade.
Spain’s grid denies renewable energy to blame for massive blackout
REE says the outage cannot be blamed on Spain's high share of renewable energy, cause not clear yet.
After deadly attack in Kashmir, what’s next for India and Pakistan?
India-Pakistan tensions grow after attack on tourists in disputed region of Kashmir.
‘Time to resist’: Protesters etch Trump portrait in sand
Environmentalists carved a huge sand portrait of Donald Trump outside his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland.
Pro-Palestinian students confront University of Manchester leadership
Students interrupted a University of Manchester leadership meeting to demand they cut ties with Tel Aviv University.
The great Iberian power cut need not spell disaster for renewables – The Economist
- The great Iberian power cut need not spell disaster for renewables The Economist
- Opinion | How the Lights Went Out in Spain WSJ
- How Spain’s Success in Renewable Energy May Have Left Its Power Grid Vulnerable The New York Times
- What we know about Monday’s sweeping power outage in Spain and Portugal AP News
- Spain's grid denies dependence on solar power to blame for blackout Reuters
US, Ukraine sign minerals deal pushed by Trump
US Treasury's Scott Bessent says pact is signal to Russia that US supports a 'free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine'.
Outrage in Brazil over reports of new red national football jersey
CBF reportedly considering red jersey ahead of World Cup but rightwingers consider the colour anti-patriotic
“Our flag will never be red!” rightwing Brazilians took to chanting during the heyday of the left-bashing former president Jair Bolsonaro.
But their football shirts soon might be, amid incendiary reports that the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) is considering introducing a crimson jersey for the national team ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
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