- Russia skirts Western sanctions to ramp up its military footprint in Africa AP News
- Wagner to withdraw from Mali after 'completing mission' BBC
- Russia says plan to boost role in Africa includes 'sensitive' security ties Reuters
- Russia’s Wagner mercenaries leaving Mali, Africa Corps to remain Al Jazeera
- Focus on Africa: Russia's Wagner Group leaves Mali BBC
Doechii blasts Trump administration’s ‘ruthless attacks’ in LA amid Ice raids
Rapper turns BET awards speech into call for justice after White House deployed military forces on demonstrators
The rapper Doechii turned her acceptance speech at the BET awards on Monday night into a powerful call for justice as she criticized the Trump administration’s deployment of military forces on protesters in Los Angeles.
The Grammy winner used the stage to highlight the immigration raids and protest crackdowns happening just miles from where the ceremony took place in Los Angeles.
Continue reading...World fertility rates in ‘unprecedented decline’, UN says
Hundreds of millions of people are not able to have the number of children they want, the UN warns.
Eurostar vows to run direct trains from UK to Germany and Switzerland
Cross-Channel rail operator, which is trying to fend off rivals for its London depot space, regards early 2030s as feasible
Eurostar has vowed to run direct trains from the UK to Germany and Switzerland, as it attempts to fend off potential competitors eyeing its London depot space.
The cross-Channel rail operator’s chief executive, Gwendoline Cazenave, said she had no doubt the direct services would run in the early 2030s despite the failure of previous ventures to connect London and Frankfurt.
Continue reading...The real fertility crisis – United Nations Population Fund
- The real fertility crisis United Nations Population Fund
- World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says BBC
- Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report The Guardian
- Money not infertility, UN report says: Why birth rates are plummeting Al Jazeera
- The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates United Nations Population Fund
‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examination
Patterson also tells triple-murder trial she’s ‘puzzled’ clinic she says she had an appointment with for a gastric bypass offers no such surgery
Erin Patterson says she is “puzzled” that a clinic in which she said she had an appointment for a gastric bypass offers no such surgery, and denies lying about making herself vomit in the hours immediately after the beef wellington lunch, a court has heard.
In her sixth day in the witness box, Patterson was repeatedly asked under cross-examination by prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC whether she was lying about the deadly lunch and other parts of her evidence before her triple-murder trial.
Continue reading...BTS stars RM and V discharged after completing military service in South Korea
Hundreds of fans, some of whom had travelled from as far away as Mexico, gathered to welcome the band members back to civilian life
K-pop superstars RM and V from the band BTS have been discharged from South Korea’s military after fulfilling their mandatory military service.
They each saluted upon their release on Tuesday in Chuncheon City as about 200 fans, some of whom travelled from Mexico, Turkey and Brazil, cheered.
Continue reading...Monash IVF admits second bungled embryo implant, this time at Victorian clinic
Patient’s own embryo instead of partner’s was ‘incorrectly transferred’, fertility company tells ASX, months after revealing separate Queensland clinic error
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A second bungled embryo implant at Monash IVF has sparked a new investigation and the expansion of a review into the first incident, which led to a woman unknowingly giving birth to a stranger’s baby.
Monash IVF said in a statement on Tuesday that in June “a patient’s own embryo was incorrectly transferred to that patient, contrary to the treatment plan which designated the transfer of an embryo of the patient’s partner”.
Continue reading...Sly Stone: A funky life – in pictures
The singer and front man of Sly and the Family Stone was known for his big style and even bigger hair.
Sly Stone: A funky life – in pictures
The singer and front man of Sly and the Family Stone was known for his big style and even bigger hair.
Israeli troops kill 17, say Gaza officials, as UN experts decry ‘obliteration’ of education
Palestinians reportedly killed while trying to reach food sites, while Israel accused of war crime in targeting schools
Israeli troops killed at least 17 Palestinians trying to reach food distribution sites on Tuesday, health authorities in Gaza said, as UN experts accused Israel’s military of committing war crimes including the “obliteration” of Gaza’s education system.
More than 130 people have been shot dead over the past two weeks in a series of brutally repetitive attacks on desperate crowds trying to access food handouts. Hundreds of others have been injured.
Continue reading...Russian strikes in Ukraine hit Kyiv and kill two in Odesa
Russia launched 315 drones across the country, including "one of the largest strikes on Kyiv," Zelensky said.
New Zealand government sued over ‘dangerously inadequate’ emissions reduction plan
Exclusive: In the first legal challenge to the plan, top climate lawyers claim the government relies too heavily on forestry and failed to consult the public
Hundreds of top environment lawyers are suing the New Zealand government over what they say is its “dangerously inadequate” plan to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050.
It is the first time the country’s emissions reduction plan has faced litigation, and the lawyers believe it is the first case globally that challenges the use of forestry to offset emissions.
Continue reading...Group Accuses Hamas of Threatening Aid Workers in Gaza – The New York Times
Perfect storm as Trump’s mass deportation drive collides with city of immigrants
The clashes over local Ice raids come as the White House orders immigration agents to ramp up enforcement.
Chinese man in US pleads guilty to exporting guns, ammo to North Korea
California resident shipped at least three containers of guns bound for North Korea, according to prosecutors.
Public disorder breaks out in Northern Ireland town Ballymena after alleged sexual assault
Police in Northern Ireland say a number of missiles had been thrown towards officers and damage to properties had been reported
Public disorder broke out in Ballymena in Northern Ireland, with police saying a number of missiles had been thrown towards officers after crowds gathered near the site of an alleged sexual assault in the town.
The unrest follows a protest in the area, about 30 minutes’s drive from the capital city of Belfast, earlier on Monday evening, the police statement said, adding damage had been reported to a number of properties.
Continue reading...RFK Jr sacks entire US vaccine committee
The US health secretary, a vaccine sceptic who has been criticised by health experts, said the panel was 'plagued' with conflicts of interest.
RFK Jr sacks entire US vaccine committee
The US health secretary, a vaccine sceptic who has been criticised by health experts, said the panel was 'plagued' with conflicts of interest.
LA cleans up and protests some more after weekend of defiance against Trump
Cleaners remove graffiti and burned cars after mostly peaceful protests that saw some vandalism and violence
Outside the federal courthouse complex in downtown Los Angeles on Monday morning, two cleaners carrying bins on wheels looked uncertainly at the daunting task in front of them – long walls in several directions covered in spray-painted graffiti after a weekend of vigorous street protest.
They donned black plastic gloves and reached for spray bottles and rolls of paper towels, but these seemed hardly adequate even for the black marble plinth bearing the name “Edward R Roybal Center and Federal Building” where they began. Indeed, the rest of the official writing on the plinth was illegible, defaced by three separate graffiti reading “Fuck Ice” and another saying “Dead Cops”.
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