Day two of LA fires: Inferno skies and charred homes
One resident watching as her home burned said her neighbourhood was like driving through a "war zone".
Baby born on migrant boat crossing from Africa to Canary Islands
The baby born was born less than an hour before Spanish rescuers reached the crowded raft.
How is Sudan’s conflict worsening the humanitarian crisis?
Half of Sudan's population faces acute food shortages.
Jailed Belarus opposition figure seen for first time in months
Viktor Babaryko was arrested in 2020 after challenging authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko at the polls.
Quaker group pulls NYT ad over paper’s refusal to let it call Israel’s Gaza bombing ‘genocide’
Organization said paper’s refusal ‘outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth’, choosing ‘silence over accountability’
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization that advocates for peace, said on Monday the group cancelled a planned advertisement in the New York Times in response to the paper refusing to allow it to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide.
“The refusal of The New York Times to run paid digital ads that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza is an outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth,” said Joyce Ajlouny, general secretary for the AFSC, in a press release. “Palestinians and allies have been silenced and marginalized in the media for decades as these institutions choose silence over accountability. It is only by challenging this reality that we can hope to forge a path toward a more just and equitable world.”
Continue reading...Brazil says Meta getting rid of factcheckers is ‘bad for democracy’
Brazilian officials also ask tech giant to clarify whether it intends to implement changes in country within 30 days
The decision by the social media giant Meta to end factchecking in the United States is “bad for democracy”, Brazil’s newly appointed communication minister, Sidonio Palmeira, said on Wednesday.
Meta’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, stunned many with his announcement on Tuesday that he was pulling the plug on factchecking at Facebook and Instagram in the US, citing concerns about political bias.
Continue reading...‘We must stand together’: European leaders warn Trump over Greenland threat
Trump's refusal to rule out using military force, economic coercion to seize island causes disquiet, calls for unity.
IDF: From now on, nearly all soldiers will be blurred in media interviews – The Jerusalem Post
- IDF: From now on, nearly all soldiers will be blurred in media interviews The Jerusalem Post
- Israeli Soldiers on Vacation Are Being Investigated for War Crimes in Gaza The New York Times
- Israeli soldier flees Brazil over risk of arrest abroad for alleged war crimes in Gaza NBC News
- Amid efforts abroad to prosecute combat soldiers, IDF to try to conceal their identities The Times of Israel
- War-crime complaints filed against IDF soldiers in Argentina JNS.org
US special operators are going back to their ‘roots’ with an eye on China and Russia, senior Pentagon official says – Business Insider
Russian strike kills 13 in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia
The attack came hours after Ukraine’s military struck a depot deep inside Russia.
Italian journalist Sala freed from Iran prison, returns home – Reuters
- Italian journalist Sala freed from Iran prison, returns home Reuters
- An Italian journalist is freed from detention in Iran and returns home The Associated Press
- Italy Says Cecilia Sala, Journalist Detained by Iran, Has Been Released The New York Times
- Iran Releases Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala The Wall Street Journal
- Trump agrees to suspend extradition of Iranian detainee - Italian media ایران اینترنشنال
Industry groups sue over Biden ban on medical debt in credit reports
Consumer watchdog said new rule would lead to rising credit scores and an additional 22,000 low-cost mortgages annually.
Ros Atkins on…Trump’s threats to Greenland
The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins takes a look at why President-elect Donald Trump is talking about annexing Greenland.
‘América Mexicana’: Mexico’s president responds to Trump with renaming of her own
Claudia Sheinbaum joked about renaming the entire continent in retort to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comments
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, has responded to Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America with a counter-proposal to rename North America.
Standing before a global map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that the continent should be known as “América Mexicana”, or “Mexican America”, because an 1814 founding document that preceded Mexico’s constitution referred to it that way.
Continue reading...Fourth wildfire erupts in Los Angeles as flames rapidly spread
Four separate wildfires have now been reported in the Los Angeles area.
The world’s most powerful passports for 2025 – CNN
- The world’s most powerful passports for 2025 CNN
- U.S. Drops To No. 9 In World’s Most Powerful Passport Index Forbes
- Canada among 'top 5 losers' in new passport ranking CTV News
- U.S. passport falls in visa-free travel rankings while China rises Nikkei Asia
- This country has reclaimed the title of having the world's most powerful passport WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm
BBC reporter surrounded by LA fire destruction
Emma Vardy assesses the damage along Pacific Coast Highway, as winds continue to worsen the fires in the area.
Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza as ceasefire talks continue
Death toll rises as Gaza healthcare further collapses, deadly raids continue in occupied West Bank.
US Justice Department to release only part of Trump investigation report
It's unlikely that the rest of the report, on the mishandling of classified documents, will be released under Trump.
Jean-Marie Le Pen’s death brings rivalry between Marine and niece into focus
Family seeks to show a united front as French minister condemns ‘shameful’ celebrations of his demise
The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen looked likely to reignite rivalries in his family over who is the rightful heir to the far-right political dynasty, as the French government condemned as “simply shameful” crowds of people who took to the streets to celebrate the politician’s demise.
Marine Le Pen, daughter of the co-founder and leader of the far-right National Front party, which she has rebranded as the anti-immigration National Rally, on Wednesday paid tribute to her father, who died the previous day at the age of 96.
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