Will Trump’s tariff war spark big-bang reforms in India?
Could this be a chance for the world’s fifth-largest economy to shed protectionism and open up further?
Fired FTC commissioner raises concern over Trump ties to tech billionaires
Alvaro Bedoya points to ‘interesting coincidence’ that he was dismissed after criticizing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
A day after his abrupt firing by Donald Trump from the Federal Trade Commission, Alvaro Bedoya raised questions about the US president’s relations with some of the country’s richest men.
Appearing at a hearing of the joint judiciary committee of the state legislature in Colorado on Wednesday, the ousted Democratic commissioner said it was an “interesting coincidence” his final public statement in post had blasted Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder.
Continue reading...University of California imposes hiring freeze in response to Trump cuts
President Michael Drake also directs campuses to cut costs, such as delaying maintenance and reducing business travel
The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to mitigate the expected impact of sharp cuts in federal funding under the Trump administration.
In a letter to staff and students, the school’s president, Michael Drake, said he had also directed all UC locations to implement cost-saving measures, such as delaying maintenance and reducing business travel, to help conserve funds.
Continue reading...How Trump took credit for the Gaza ceasefire – and then let it unravel
Analysts say the US president, who advocated for displacing Palestinians, was never invested in ending the Gaza war.
Ontario’s police force using ‘growing ecosystem’ of Israeli spyware – report
Findings raise questions about extent and scope of Canadian authorities’ use of cyberweapons
Researchers have uncovered “possible links” between Ontario’s provincial police force and an Israel-based military-grade spyware maker called Paragon Solutions, raising questions about the extent and scope of Canadian authorities’ use of cyberweapons.
The new findings were published by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, which tracks and identifies digital threats against civil society, and come three years after a parliamentary committee in Canada called for Ottawa to update the country’s privacy laws in the wake of press reports that the national police force had been using spyware to hack mobile phone devices. No laws were ever passed to address the controversy.
Continue reading...‘It’s him, it’s him!’ – Mother spots son deported from US in mega-prison footage
Some relatives of accused and deported gang members say their sons have been wrongly swept up in a Trump administration crackdown.
‘It’s him, it’s him!’ – Mother spots son deported from US in mega-prison footage
Some relatives of accused and deported gang members say their sons have been wrongly swept up in a Trump administration crackdown.
Is US support for Israel complicating efforts to reach peace in Gaza?
Emboldened by Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu is intensifying the war.
Israeli forces resume Gaza ground assault, seize part of Netzarim Corridor
Israeli army says forces retake part of key land corridor to expand a 'security zone and create a partial buffer'.
What we know about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
Mahmoud Khalil, who the Trump administration is seeking to deport, says he is a "political prisoner."
Pope Francis stops using oxygen mask as condition improves, Vatican says
The Vatican says Pope Francis is 'improving' after spending five weeks in Rome's Gemelli Hospital.
‘Nowhere is safe’: Doctor in Gaza describes scenes of ‘nonstop’ injuries after Israel ends ceasefire – WBUR News
- 'Nowhere is safe': Doctor in Gaza describes scenes of 'nonstop' injuries after Israel ends ceasefire WBUR News
- Gaza trauma surgeon says half of patients injured in Israeli strikes were children ABC News
- Gaza’s silent epidemic Al Jazeera English
- Israel and the Occupied Territories: Red Cross Field Hospital responding to increased number of casualties in Gaza ICRC
- ICRC: hospitals in Gaza struggling to cope with casualties Reuters
Driver rams anti-government protester in Jerusalem, drags him for 50 meters – The Times of Israel
- Driver rams anti-government protester in Jerusalem, drags him for 50 meters The Times of Israel
- Israelis Take to Streets a Day After Gaza Strikes The New York Times
- Israeli opposition to Netanyahu finds voice as war returns to Gaza Reuters
- Fury toward Netanyahu as Israelis protest renewed war in Gaza CNN International
- Protesters Are in the Streets to Stop Netanyahu's Israel Becoming Like Erdogan's Turkey Haaretz
Farmer’s house in danger from climate change, court told in RWE case
German coal giant is one of world’s biggest polluters and should contribute to flood defences, says farmer in Peru
A Peruvian farmer’s home is in “concrete danger” from climate change, a court has heard, in the resumption of a decade-long legal battle to get German coal giant RWE to contribute to flood defences in the Andes.
Lawyers for Saúl Luciano Lliuya, who say his home is threatened by rapidly melting glaciers, told the upper regional court in Hamm on Wednesday that the risk of extreme flooding represented a breach of civil law.
Continue reading...Israeli forces claim to have retaken Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
Israeli forces have resumed some ground operations in Gaza and reportedly taken the Netzarim Corridor.
British couple held by Taliban due in court on unknown charges, family say
Peter Reynolds, 79, and wife, Barbie, 75, expected to appear in Kabul on Thursday after detention last month
A British couple in their 70s imprisoned by the Taliban are due in court in Kabul on Thursday but have not been informed of the charges, their family has said.
Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75, who run a training business in Afghanistan, were detained last month when they travelled to their home in Bamiyan province.
Continue reading...Trump administration withdraws from Russian war crime investigations
The Trump administration has defunded a programme documenting the abduction of children from Ukraine.
Trump and Zelenskyy share ‘frank’ but ‘very good’ call as Ukraine accepts partial ceasefire
Ukraine’s president says his country is ready to implement pause in strikes on energy and infrastructure
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a “very good telephone call” on Wednesday, according to Trump, in the first conversation between the US president and his Ukrainian counterpart since their disastrous showdown in the White House three weeks ago.
Zelenskyy described the call as “positive, very substantive and frank”, and said he had signed up to a partial ceasefire that Trump agreed with Vladimir Putin a day earlier. The White House said Trump had promised to help with a Ukrainian request to source more air defence batteries for Kyiv.
Continue reading...Mexico’s attorney general cites irregularities in investigation of alleged cartel killing site – The Associated Press
- Mexico’s attorney general cites irregularities in investigation of alleged cartel killing site The Associated Press
- Top Mexican prosecutor investigating alleged cartel killing site where bones, shoes were found: "Truth will come out" CBS News
- ‘Extermination Camp’ Found in Mexico, Group Searching for the Missing Says The New York Times
- Armed men seen on video targeting group searching for relatives in Jalisco The Associated Press
- The inventory of terror: 1,300 objects have now been found at the Teuchitlán extermination center EL PAÍS USA
As U.S. foreign aid programs grind to a halt, African health leaders look for a silver lining – NPR
- As U.S. foreign aid programs grind to a halt, African health leaders look for a silver lining NPR
- 'You can now die': The human cost of America's foreign aid cuts in Africa NPR
- The Real Threat to American Soft Power Bloomberg
- The country that kicked out USAID Financial Times
- Opinion | Gutting U.S.A.I.D. Was a Disaster. Here Is How to Move Forward. The New York Times