Health concerns and outrage mark fifth Gaza ceasefire prisoner swap
At least eight Palestinians were taken to hospital upon their release from Israeli jails during the fifth prisoner swap.
Retirees who rent ‘really struggling’ financially, researchers say – and the problem is getting worse
Two-thirds of retirees in private rentals live in poverty, Grattan report finds, with more than half reporting net worth of less than $25,000
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Two in three retirees who rent privately owned homes live in poverty and the problem will get worse, a new report has found.
Most older working Australians who rent do not have sufficient savings to keep paying rent in their retirement, according to the report from the Grattan Institute.
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Continue reading...‘I just didn’t see mess’: help emerges for children of parents who hoard
Local authorities urged to intervene earlier and charity preparing to launch dedicated support group
“I don’t remember ever having had a home-cooked meal,” says Richard, crunching over the food wrappers and crushed cardboard boxes that cover his mother’s kitchen floor.
He glances at the broken cooker, cracked microwave and windows blocked by piles of unwashed mugs, some inexplicably tightly wrapped in cellophane. There are no clear surfaces. Blackened, disintegrating cabinets sag under yet more wreckage. Not an inch of floor can be seen.
Continue reading...‘Be courageous witnesses of God’s love,’ Pope Francis tells armed forces at jubilee Mass – Catholic News Agency
Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK
Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers
More than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution, the Guardian can reveal.
Exposure to toxic air was attributed to 515 men and 590 women in the UK in 2022 getting adenocarcinoma – now the most dominant of the four main subtypes of lung cancer – an analysis by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency found.
Continue reading...Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown
And the only way to resist it is grassroots mobilisation against the all-powerful broligarchy.
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Emilia Pérez wins top Spanish film prize amid Karla Sofía Gascón furore
Best European film at Goya awards goes to musical at centre of storm over past social media posts written by its star
The multi-Oscar-nominated narco-musical Emilia Pérez, whose success has been overshadowed by the emergence of a series of racist and Islamophobic social media posts written by its star, Karla Sofía Gascón, won best European film at Spain’s prestigious Goya awards on Saturday night.
Gascón, the first out transgender woman to be nominated for a best actress Oscar, stayed away from the ceremony after posts came to light in which she called George Floyd “a drug addict swindler”, denigrated China, and said Islam was “becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity”.
Continue reading...Why Trump blinked before imposing his ‘beautiful’ tariffs on Canada and Mexico
Trump has teased two of the US’s biggest trading partners with levies but has moved the goalpost at least three times in two weeks
Donald Trump was in his element in the Oval Office this week. Surrounded by cameras, flanked by billionaire allies and confronted by a barrage of questions about whether he was really prepared to unleash a trade war on the US’s closest neighbors, the president talked tough.
By his telling, powerful economies were scrambling to bend to his will. Hours earlier, Mexico had announced a series of measures to shore up its border, prompting the White House to hastily postpone the imposition of 25% tariffs on all its goods; Canada would announce similar measures, and receive the same reprieve, later that day.
Continue reading...Slave Scammers | True Crime Reports
Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in scamming farms across Southeast Asia.
Israel withdraws from Netzarim Corridor as part of Gaza ceasefire agreement
The Israeli military has left behind massive destruction after withdrawing from the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza.
Florida police catch suspected drug dealer on horseback
‘Get that bad man.’
Newly-released bodycam video shows police on horseback in Jacksonville, Florida.
Revealed: how a shadowy group of far-right donors is funding federal employee watchlists
Project 2025 architects are among those behind the American Accountability Foundation and their blacklists targeting people of color
A rightwing non-profit group that has published a “DEI Watch List” identifying federal employees allegedly “driving radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives” is bankrolled by wealthy family foundations and rightwing groups whose origins are often cloaked in a web of financial arrangements that obscure the original donors.
One recent list created by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) includes the names of mostly Black people with roles in government health alleged to have some ties to diversity initiatives. Another targets education department employees, and another calls out the “most subversive immigration bureaucrats”.
Continue reading...Trump’s claim that Mexican cartels and government are allied is not reality
Corruption in Mexico is a problem, experts say, but any claim the two are linked shows a lack of comprehension
Mexico breathed a sigh of relief this week when Donald Trump delayed his threatened tariffs by a month, apparently swerving away from an economic crisis at the last moment.
But one aspect of the spat still rankles: the Trump administration’s vague but shocking accusation of an “intolerable alliance” between Mexico’s government and organised crime.
Continue reading...Gaunt Israelis and Palestinians freed under fifth ceasefire exchange
Weakened state of three freed Israelis shocks country, while several released Palestinians also need hospitalisation
Hamas freed three hostages from Gaza and Israel released 183 prisoners and detainees on Saturday, the fifth exchange under a fragile, three-week-old ceasefire deal.
The gaunt appearance of the three Israeli men shocked the country, sparking anger and dismay that could increase pressure on the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to extend the agreement to a second stage, bringing home the remaining Israeli captives.
Continue reading...Thousands of baby turtles released in Brazil
The project aims to boost numbers of threatened tracajás turtles in Amazonas state.
Indian forces kill 31 suspected Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh state
Two security personnel also killed in deadliest combat this year and the second major fight in less than a month.
‘I’m picturing my death’: alarm as RFK Jr closes in on health secretary role
The Trump ally’s health plans have delighted his supporters – but others are horrified by the potential for harm
Americans suspicious of modern medicine and the status quo are watching Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination to secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) with a mixture of glee, astonishment and skepticism.
Last week, Kennedy used his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee to demonstrate how fully his wellness agenda, Make America Healthy Again, and Trumpism had fused – often to the delight of supporters.
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