India exports rockets, explosives to Israel amid Gaza war, documents reveal
Documents seen by Al Jazeera and company statements suggest Israel is receiving Indian weapons as it wages war on Gaza.
EU braces for the nightmare scenario- a eurosceptic France
National Rally win may hamper bloc’s ability to get things done and pose existential question over French role
On the night her party swept to a crushing victory in European elections and France’s president triggered a political earthquake by dissolving parliament, Marine Le Pen, the longtime leader of the National Rally (RN), could not have been much clearer.
“Tonight’s message – including the dissolution – is also addressed to the leaders in Brussels,” she said. “This great victory for patriotic movements is in alignment with the direction of history … We are ready to take power if the people so wish.”
Continue reading...Make this the last inaccessible election for blind people in UK, campaigners demand
RNIB calls on all parties to commit to remove barriers that prevent people with sight loss voting on their own
Tens of thousand of people with sight loss will be denied their right to a secret ballot at next week’s general election, campaigners have warned, prompting calls to make it the last inaccessible election.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is calling on all political parties to commit to remove barriers that prevent blind people voting on their own and without help in future elections.
Continue reading...Jay Slater family fear online ‘noise’ may impede Tenerife search mission
Attempt to find British teenager now in its second week as groundless theories circulate about his disappearance
As the search for Jay Slater, the British teenager who went missing while on holiday in Tenerife, enters its second week Spanish rescuers continue to comb the rugged mountain terrain where he was last seen for clues.
Staff and volunteers from the local police, fire brigade and civil defence force have been using dogs, drones and helicopters to hunt for the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire.
Continue reading...Kenyan-led police force arrives in Haiti to beat back the gangs – The Washington Post
- Kenyan-led police force arrives in Haiti to beat back the gangs The Washington Post
- Kenyan-Led Forces Arrive in Haiti After Months of Gang Violence The New York Times
- Kenya-led police force arrives in Haiti to tackle gang violence NBC News
- Haitians wary as Kenyan police arrive on latest US-backed mission The Guardian
- Kenyan police are leaving for a controversial deployment in Haiti to take on powerful, violent gangs The Associated Press
Bus driver charged over Brisbane crash that killed 18-year-old Tia Cameron abused outside court
Insults hurled at Lindsay Selby, who has not yet entered a plea, while leaving Brisbane court after being charged over a fatal CBD bus crash
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A bus driver charged after a Brisbane CBD crash in which 18-year-old Tia Cameron died has been abused while leaving court.
Lindsay Francis Selby, 70, was also targeted by some of Cameron’s supporters outside Brisbane magistrates court on Wednesday in heated scenes.
Continue reading...Inflation rises to 4%, stoking concern interest rates could increase again
The consumer price index increased to its highest level in 2024, indicating the Reserve Bank is unlikely to cut interest rates soon
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Australia’s monthly inflation rate increased to its highest level in 2024 in the latest indication that the Reserve Bank won’t be cutting interest rates soon and might yet hike again.
Consumer prices rose 4% last month from a year earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. That compared with the 3.6% pace recorded for April, and the 3.8% rate expected for May by economists.
The jump in May’s inflation was propelled in part by automotive fuel prices, which were up 9.3% from a year earlier even as they retreated 5.1% during the month itself.
Australia’s first high-speed rail link could ease house prices and widen the dating pool, UK expert says
Prof Andrew McNaughton also warns plan to build Sydney-Newcastle route is ‘doomed’ to fail unless a shorter stretch to Gosford comes first
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Ensuring Australia’s decades-long high-speed rail project maintains enough support to be built requires the public to be constantly reminded of its benefits, such as easing property prices, providing better job opportunities and even widening the dating pool, a British expert has urged.
Prof Andrew McNaughton, the chair of the UK’s Network Rail High Speed, also warns that the Albanese government’s push to build high-speed rail along Australia’s east coast, starting with a Sydney-Newcastle section, is “doomed” to fail unless planners split the first stage into an even smaller, achievable stretch to Gosford.
Continue reading...New mpox strain in DR Congo ‘most dangerous yet’
A current outbreak of the virus in the African country is "concerning", say health officials.
Off Gaza’s coast, truckloads of aid roll off a US military pier – only to remain uncollected – CNN
- Off Gaza’s coast, truckloads of aid roll off a US military pier – only to remain uncollected CNN
- A first up-close look at the U.S. military's Gaza pier project, which has struggled to get aid to Palestinians CBS News
- Reporters get rare glimpse of the U.S. military's troubled pier system in Gaza NBC News
- US military delivers supplies to Gaza via pier, but there's no one to distribute them ABC News
- The pier is finally working — but aid is still not getting to Gazans POLITICO
Oscar invitees: Lily Gladstone, Celine Song and Catherine O’Hara among those offered Academy membership
Da’Vine Joy Randolph and the director and cast of Anatomy of a Fall are also among the 487 new artists and executives to judge the Academy Awards
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, Past Lives director Celine Song, and actors Jessica Alba, Catherine O’Hara and Fiona Shaw are among the 487 artists and entertainment executives invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organisation announced on Tuesday.
Other invitees included Past Lives actors Greta Lee and Teo Yeo, Bottoms filmmaker Emma Seligman, New Zealand actor Rachel House – best known for her collaborations with Taika Waititi – and French director Alice Diop, whose feature debut, the legal drama Saint Omer, became an international festival darling in 2022.
Continue reading...Progressive Jamaal Bowman loses New York House Democratic primary
Congressman Bowman defeated by George Latimer, backed by pro-Israel groups in most expensive House primary ever
Jamaal Bowman, the progressive Democratic congressman whose criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza made him a target for pro-Israel lobbying groups, lost his primary race on Tuesday night.
The Democratic primary in New York’s 16th district became the most expensive House primary in history after Bowman was challenged by George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist.
Continue reading...Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 852
As the war enter its 852nd day, these are the main developments.
Lauren Boebert, hard-right Republican, wins Colorado primary after moving districts
Bitter intraparty fight is one of two elections that could help determine control of Congress in November
Despite a series of personal scandals, Lauren Boebert, a hard-right Colorado Republican who narrowly avoided defeat in 2022, won out over a crowded field of other Republican primary candidates in the fourth congressional district – previously led by Ken Buck – which leans more heavily Republican.
Boebert’s primary win is one of the most closely watched results of Colorado’s primary elections, which chose the winners in several bitter intra-party fights among the state’s Republicans, including in two competitive House districts that could help determine control of Congress in November.
Continue reading...VW to invest up to $5bn in Tesla rival Rivian
Shares in the US-based electric truck and SUV maker jumped by almost 50% after the announcement.
16 Nobel Prize-winning economists warn Trump would ‘reignite’ inflation
Joseph E Stiglitz and other Nobel laureates say former president threatens US's standing in the world.
WikiLeaks’ Assange pleads guilty in deal with US that secures his freedom, ends legal fight – The Associated Press
- WikiLeaks' Assange pleads guilty in deal with US that secures his freedom, ends legal fight The Associated Press
- Julian Assange ends stalemate with US, exchanging guilty plea for his freedom CNN
- WikiLeaks' Julian Assange admits violating Espionage Act, freed USA TODAY
- Julian Assange Pleads Guilty in Remote U.S. Courthouse in Saipan The Wall Street Journal
- Australian PM Says Assange Plea Deal Hearing 'Welcome Development' Barron's
At Least 11 Americans Among Those Dead in Hajj Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia – The New York Times
- At Least 11 Americans Among Those Dead in Hajj Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia The New York Times
- Heat Is Killing Thousands, and Big Events Have Not Adjusted Yahoo! Voices
- Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid extreme high temperatures CBS News
- For many Muslim pilgrims, a dangerous unauthorized Hajj is the only option CNN
- Maryland couple prepared for Hajj pilgrimage, then died in extreme heat The Washington Post
Brazil’s Supreme Court decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use – The Associated Press
- Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use The Associated Press
- Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana possession DW (English)
- Brazil top court majority says marijuana possession not a crime Reuters
- Brazil's Top Court Decriminalizes Cannabis For Personal Use Forbes
- Brazil's Supreme Court Decriminalizes Marijuana for Personal Use Bloomberg
Airplane suddenly drops 25,000 feet midflight, injuring 17 passengers – Fox Business
- Airplane suddenly drops 25,000 feet midflight, injuring 17 passengers Fox Business
- A Korean Air Boeing plane dropped 25000 feet in 5 minutes Quartz
- Korean Air, Malaysia Airlines flights disrupted by pressurization problems The Associated Press
- Korean Air flight bound for Taiwan plummets 7600 metres, makes emergency landing South China Morning Post
- Korean Air Plane Drops 26,900 Feet Mid-Flight, Passengers Forced To Use Oxygen Masks NDTV