Renoir paintings worth $10.5 million missing after museum heist
A pre-dawn break-in at the Renoir Museum in southern France saw thieves seize four paintings
NATO member boots 10 Russian diplomats – Fox News
- NATO member boots 10 Russian diplomats Fox News
- Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats, Moscow promises harsh response Al Jazeera
- Russia says it will give a ‘harsh and painful’ response after Hungary expels 10 diplomats - Europe live The Guardian
- Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats as relations worsen BBC
- Hungary Expels 10 Russian Diplomats, Signaling a Shift The New York Times
Smithsonian Institution secretary to retire amid Trump attacks on museum independence
‘I have to be honest, it has been stressful,’ Lonnie Bunch III says
The Smithsonian Institution’s secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, will retire at the end of the year amid Donald Trump’s attacks on the museum’s content and independence.
Bunch, who was appointed in 2019 as the first African American to lead the museums, cited personal reasons for departing, while acknowledging the pressure that the president’s attacks on the Smithsonian’s depictions of US history had taken.
Continue reading...Gulf nations race to bypass Hormuz and build defenses as Iran war drags on – Yahoo
- Gulf nations race to bypass Hormuz and build defenses as Iran war drags on Yahoo
- Three ways the Iran war changed the global economy CNN
- Gulf insecurity fuels US energy dominance Al Jazeera
- Iran War Forces a Rewrite of Global Oil Trade Routes Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com
- TODAY: Gulf oil exporters face different limits to their workarounds enterpriseam.com
Yemen’s war is back: A new battle for Sanaa and the Red Sea
This phase of the war could be the start of another protracted conflict rather than a decisive campaign, say analysts.
US federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi case
Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights
A US appellate court has decided that the federal constitution does not guarantee a right to clean water.
That legal opinion came in the form of a decision on Friday from the fifth circuit court of appeals to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a 2022 lawsuit from several Jackson, Mississippi, residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their constitutional rights.
Continue reading...Photos: Palestinians rebuild Gaza’s ruins with mud bricks, scrap
Over 90 percent of Gaza lies in ruins, forcing thousands to rebuild homes with limited resources like mud and rubble.
Nicaragua urges ICJ to reject Germany’s bid to throw out Gaza genocide case
Nicaragua maintains that German arms exports to Israel facilitated Gaza genocide as Germany's tries to halt the case.
US won’t join UK ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US will ‘obviously not’ follow the UK in sanctioning illegal Israeli settlements
Fourteen go on trial over deadliest Channel small boats disaster – BBC
Fourteen go on trial over deadliest Channel small boats disaster
At least 30 men, women and children drowned when their dinghy capsized on 24 November 2021.
Pilots tried to abort landing seconds before deadly Amazon cargo plane crash that killed five
The five people killed were employees of an aircraft cleaning company who were in a van struck by the plane after it overran the Miami airport runway
Officials in Florida on Tuesday said evidence collected from Saturday’s Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami international airport suggests the pilots considered aborting the flight’s landing before it crashed and killed five people on the ground.
At a press conference Tuesday evening, officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released data from the plane’s “black box” flight data recorder, which was recovered from the wreckage on Monday, indicating pilots initiated a “go-around”, or aborted landing, seconds before impact.
Reuters contributed reporting
Continue reading...Trump renames places and poses as superhero in bizarre social media blitz
Trump passed the long weekend posting a torrent of memes and musings on his Truth Social platform
The long weekend may have proved too long for Donald Trump, who passed the time by musing about annexing other countries, unilaterally renaming places he’s not allowed to rename and turning himself into a superhero.
Amid the torrent of memes and posts by the president on his Truth Social platform over the Labor Day holiday weekend was a bizarre AI-generated video depicting Trump as the Green Lantern DC superhero, wielding a glowing green power ring to erect his border wall, illuminate an “American manufacturing” scene, and command a fleet of warplanes and warships behind him.
Continue reading...‘A bit too late, but important’: UK bans goods from Israeli settlements
The UK has announced a ban on the import of all goods produced by illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Ukrainian TV channel building hit by Russian drone as five killed in Kyiv
President Zelensky describes the daytime drone attack in Ukraine's capital as a "new page in Russian degradation"
Ukrainian TV channel building hit by Russian drone as five killed in Kyiv
President Zelensky describes the daytime drone attack in Ukraine's capital as a "new page in Russian degradation"
Israeli strikes devastate homes, displace families across Gaza
Israeli strikes hit several areas across Gaza, destroying homes in Khan Younis and sending thick smoke over Bureij camp.
Bombardier defends US manufacturing amid Trump’s aviation sales threat
Bombardier defends its US presence, stating its planes already feature components made in Texas and California.
China Tests New Silk Road—in the Arctic – Newser
- China Tests New Silk Road—in the Arctic Newser
- Chinese Ship Takes Arctic Shortcut: Smart Business? Or a Political Flex? The New York Times
- A Forgotten Soviet Waterway Could Give China a New Arctic Trade Route Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com
- The new Arctic route is redrawing the economic and geopolitical map EL PAÍS English
- Container ship arrives in UK after voyage from China via the Arctic The Independent
Russia’s New Stealthy Lower-Cost Air-Launched Standoff Weapons On Display In Egypt – TWZ
- Russia’s New Stealthy Lower-Cost Air-Launched Standoff Weapons On Display In Egypt TWZ
- Russia markets drone-like missiles in Egypt during Su-57 jet's Africa air show debut Reuters
- Another powerful African country welcomes Russia’s fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter after Algeria made history as first operator Business Insider Africa
- Russians Brought Su-57E Jets to Egypt Equipped with Monochrome, Kover, and Dan-T Missiles Мілітарний
- Su-57’s Drone army: Russia turns stealth fighter into an airborne commander WION