- Power blackouts hit Tanzania as Cyclone Hidaya intensifies toward the country's coastline The Associated Press
- A rare tropical cyclone landfall is on tap for Tanzania » Yale Climate Connections Yale Climate Connections
- Historic tropical cyclone threatens Tanzania with major flooding The Weather Network
- Massive power outage hits Tanzania as tropical cyclone Hidaya approaches Nation
- Weather Alert: Cyclone Hidaya Predicted to Impact Kenya USEmbassy.gov
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 800
As the war enters its 800th day, these are the main developments.
Antiwar protests and limits on freedoms in the United States
Student protesters in the United States face the consequences of crossing a red line - criticism of Israel.
This Gaza journalist’s work has helped injured Palestinians
For World Press Freedom Day we spoke to Gaza journalist Hani Aburezeq.
India, Japan dismiss Biden’s ‘xenophobic’ comment
Japan calls US president's remarks 'unfortunate', while India says it's open to immigrants.
‘Exceptional’: rare books of illustrations from Darwin’s ‘bird man’ on sale for £2m
The set of folios published by John Gould will be presented at Firsts book fair in London in mid-May
John Gould was one of the most sought-after taxidermists in 19th-century London, commissioned by King George IV to stuff the first giraffe to arrive in England.
But Gould’s lasting legacy is birds. He travelled the world documenting and cataloguing as many avian species as he could find, many of them never seen before, earning him the nickname the Bird Man and the appointment as official “bird stuffer” to the Zoological Society.
Continue reading...University of Mississippi: ‘abhorrent’ counter-protesters condemned
Largely white, male group taunts pro-Palestinian protesters on campus and one man makes racist gesture towards Black woman
Dozens of students at the University of Mississippi gathered this week to protest against Israel’s war in Gaza and to call for the state’s flagship university to be transparent in its potential dealings with Israel.
There were hundreds of counter-protesters, in contrast to the few dozen pro-Palestine protesters. The scene evoked memories of the resistance to the civil rights struggle in the US south six decades earlier.
Continue reading...Tories hit by big council losses in last pre-general election test – BBC.com
- Tories hit by big council losses in last pre-general election test BBC.com
- Britain’s Conservatives trounced in local elections Al Jazeera English
- Tories take refuge in fantasy as local election drubbing becomes clear The Guardian
- U.K. Labour Party expected to return to power as Conservatives suffer historic losses in general election PBS NewsHour
- Britain’s Conservatives suffer heavy losses in a sign that Rishi Sunak is in real trouble CNN
‘No turning back’: Carnation Revolution divides Portugal again, 50 years on
As the country celebrates half a century of liberal democracy, is the far-right creeping back in?
Landslides, floods sweep Indonesia’s South Sulawesi, killing 15 people
Disaster management agency says 115 people evacuated, more than 100 houses damaged amid prolonged torrential rain.
India opposition social media chief arrested over doctored video
Congress party’s Arun Reddy held over fake video of interior minister Amit Shah
Indian police have said they have arrested the social media chief of the country’s main opposition party over a doctored video widely shared during the ongoing national election.
Arun Reddy of the Congress party was detained late on Friday in connection with the edited footage, which falsely shows India’s powerful interior minister, Amit Shah, vowing in a campaign speech to end affirmative action policies for millions of poor and low-caste Indians.
Continue reading...Orangutan seen healing face wound with medicinal plant for first time – USA TODAY
- Orangutan seen healing face wound with medicinal plant for first time USA TODAY
- A wounded orangutan used plants to heal his own injury NPR
- Orangutan seen treating wound with a medicinal plant — a first NBC News
- Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound Scientific American
- Orangutan Seen Healing His Facial Wound With Medicinal Plant The New York Times
At least 12 killed in bomb attacks on eastern DR Congo displacement camps
Congolese government, US blame Rwandan army and M23 rebel group for targeting camps where thousands are seeking refuge.
Invisible plastic: Why banning plastic bags will never be enough
How ordinary items like toothpaste and teabags could actually be damaging our environment.
‘We are disappearing’: chef Fadi Kattan aims to keep Palestinian heritage alive through food
Palestinian restauranteur speaks from Bethlehem, where food stalls are sparse as farmlands are under attack
Fadi Kattan looked forlornly at the stalls inside the Bethlehem vegetable market bearing small quantities of oranges, watermelons and cauliflowers. “This stall should be heaped with products, he said. “And over there should be piles of aubergines and courgettes.”
The watermelons from Jenin looked too small for the season, while he wasn’t sure where the boxes of oranges were from. They would normally be from Gaza. At Um Nabil’s stall in the West Bank market where Kattan is a regular customer, she told him she could no longer afford to bring in the best small local cucumbers or piles of green cherries from her village of Artas.
Continue reading...‘Don’t be afraid for the marshes’: The battle to save Iraq’s waterways
Jassim Al-Asadi has spent much of his life fighting for the survival of the Iraqi Marshes, but the battle is difficult.
Floods and landslide kill more than a dozen people in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
Officials say a landslide hit Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday after torrential rain pounded the area
A flood and a landslide have hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 people, according to officials.
The landslide hit Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday just after 1am local time, Abdul Muhari, spokesperson of Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), said in a statement.
Continue reading...Super-rich spending up to $500,000 on exclusive Paris Olympics packages
Third-party hospitality packages are outlawed, yet agency part-owned by associates of Rafael Nadal and LeBron James promises access to top events as well as to stars
Members of the global super-rich are spending as much as $500,000 (£400,000) on “ultra-exclusive” packages for the Paris 2024 Olympics that promoters claim include meeting athletes, access to the athletes’ village and “the chance to be part of the opening ceremony”.
GR8 Experience, an “international experience agency” part-owned by the business manager of the basketball star LeBron James and the PR manager of the tennis player Rafael Nadal, is selling Olympic packages that it claims include tickets to 14 events such as the men’s 100m finals and the opening ceremony for $381,600.
Continue reading...‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites
Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom
Traditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in India, Iran and Pakistan.
For millennia, Parsi communities have traditionally disposed of their dead in structures called dakhma, or “towers of silence”. These circular, elevated edifices are designed to prevent the soil, and the sacred elements of earth, fire and water, from being contaminated by corpses.
Continue reading...‘No choice’: India’s Manipuris cannot go back a year after fleeing violence
In cities across India, internal refugees struggle to rebuild lives as death and devastation still haunt.