Many native New Zealand species face threat of extinction, report finds

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A three-yearly environmental update issues stark warning over biodiversity – and reports air pollution has improved in some areas

A major new report on New Zealand’s environment has revealed a worrying outlook for its unique species and highlighted declining water health, while also noting some improvements in air quality.

The ministry of the environment’s three-yearly update, Our Environment 2025, collates statistics, data and research across five domains – air, atmosphere and climate, freshwater, land, and marine – to paint a picture of the state of New Zealand’s environment.

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Woman becomes first UK womb transplant recipient to give birth

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Grace Davidson gives birth to baby Amy Isabel after receiving her sister’s womb in 2023

Surgeons are hailing an “astonishing” medical breakthrough as a woman became the first in the UK to give birth after a womb transplant.

Grace Davidson, 36, who was a teenager when diagnosed with a rare condition that meant she did not have a uterus, said she and her husband, Angus, 37, had been given “the greatest gift we could ever have asked for”.

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Boris Johnson Attacked By Ostrich In Hilarious Video Shared By His Wife – HuffPost

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  1. Boris Johnson Attacked By Ostrich In Hilarious Video Shared By His Wife  HuffPost
  2. Boris Johnson Has Run-In With Feisty Ostrich During Texas Trip  The New York Times
  3. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson attacked by ostrich at Texas wildlife park  The Independent
  4. Ostrich on a war path: former UK prime minister attacked on family holiday  The North West Star
  5. Watch: Boris Johnson attacked by an ostrich  The Telegraph
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Explosive Failure: Watch a German Rocket’s Fiery Crash on Europe’s Historic Space Launch! – The Daily Galaxy

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  1. Explosive Failure: Watch a German Rocket's Fiery Crash on Europe's Historic Space Launch!  The Daily Galaxy
  2. Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway  BBC
  3. Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe  The New York Times
  4. Isar Aerospace’s first Spectrum launch fails  SpaceNews
  5. Isar Aerospace's rocket crash a success, 3D printing and drone warefare, Europe’s first high-voltage sea cable network  Interesting Engineering
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‘Unacceptable and deeply concerning’: UK minister condemns Israel’s detention of British MPs – Times of India

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  1. 'Unacceptable and deeply concerning': UK minister condemns Israel's detention of British MPs  Times of India
  2. Abtisam Mohamed: It was about censorship, says MP denied entry to Israel  BBC
  3. MPs expelled by Israel receive show of support from Commons colleagues  The Guardian
  4. Britain expresses outrage after Israel prevents 2 lawmakers from visiting the occupied West Bank  AP News
  5. Israel Turns Away 2 British Lawmakers  The New York Times
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Couple who ran Swedish eco-retreat fled leaving behind barrels of human waste

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Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk, now in Guatemala, had racked up large tax debt at Stedsans forest retreat

A Danish chef couple who attracted international acclaim with a “forest resort” in Sweden have been tracked down to Guatemala after apparently going on the run from tax authorities, leaving behind 158 barrels of human waste.

Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk founded their purportedly eco-friendly retreat, Stedsans, in Halland, southern Sweden, after claiming to have “felt the call of the wild” in Copenhagen, where they ran a popular rooftop restaurant.

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‘War without limits’: Aid agencies sound the alarm as Israel’s Gaza blockade enters a second month – CNN

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  1. ‘War without limits’: Aid agencies sound the alarm as Israel’s Gaza blockade enters a second month  CNN
  2. World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza, top UN officials say  OCHA
  3. Multiple UN agencies call for urgent renewal of ceasefire in Gaza as death toll mounts  Reuters
  4. Humanitarian Situation Update #277 | Gaza Strip  ochaopt.org
  5. More than a million children in the Gaza Strip deprived of lifesaving aid for over one month  Unicef
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Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says – The Guardian

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  1. Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says  The Guardian
  2. ‘Dad, help me… we were targeted by the Israelis’: Audio and video capture last moments of aid workers killed in Gaza  CNN
  3. Video Shows Search for Missing Gaza Paramedics Before Israelis Shoot Rescuers  The New York Times
  4. Israeli military walks back account of Gaza medical worker killings  NBC News
  5. Israel kills, lies, and the Western media believe it  Al Jazeera
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MPs expelled by Israel receive show of support from Commons colleagues

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Ministers and more than 70 MPs attended photo call with Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed whose travel ban was called unacceptable

Cabinet ministers and more than 70 parliamentarians staged a show of solidarity with two MPs who were detained and barred from entry to Israel in what was the first time British MPs had been banned from the country.

The health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, joined the photocall in Westminster Hall on Monday with the MPs, along with Hamish Falconer and housing minister Rushanara Ali. It was organised by the Rochdale MP Paul Waugh.

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