Away from global attention, Sudan is starving
We need to take urgent action to prevent what could be the largest hunger crisis of our times.
Protestors unfurl ‘war crimes’ banner on Australian parliament
Pro-Palestine protestors have draped banners over Australia’s parliament building.
Diddy faces new sexual assault case
The complaint filed in New York is the latest of several lawsuits filed against the star in recent months.
Iranian-born Norwegian man gets 30 years for Oslo Pride shootings
Zaniar Matapour convicted on 'terrorism' and murder charges after attack that killed two people and wounded nine.
IAF strikes kill Hamas terrorists hiding in UNRWA school – The Jerusalem Post
- IAF strikes kill Hamas terrorists hiding in UNRWA school The Jerusalem Post
- IDF says it struck Hamas command rooms in UNRWA schools in Gaza City The Times of Israel
- Palestinian medics say eight killed in Gaza City's Shejaiya district Yahoo! Voices
- IAF strikes terrorists operating in UNRWA schools | Israel National News Arutz Sheva
- Israel-Gaza updates: Hostage speaks 1st time since release ABC News
Germany summons Turkish ambassador over ‘wolf’ goal celebration
Diplomat urged to explain gesture by Turkey footballer Merih Demiral and take measures to prevent a repeat
Turkey’s ambassador to Germany has been summoned to the foreign ministry in Berlin over the rightwing extremist “wolf salute” displayed by the Turkish footballer Merih Demiral, as his goal celebration at the European Championship became the subject of diplomatic exchange.
Ahmet Başar Şen was urged to explain the gesture and take measures to prevent its further use, a ministry spokesperson said, the day after Germany’s ambassador to Turkey was summoned to the foreign ministry in Ankara as Turkey’s government accused Berlin of “xenophobia” over its criticism of the symbol associated with the Grey Wolves group.
Continue reading...US swelters on Independence Day with over 150m people under heat alerts
‘Severe’ and ‘potentially record-breaking’ heatwave sends temperatures soaring across US
More than 150 million people were under heat alerts on Thursday morning, as a brutal and potentially historic heatwave sent temperatures soaring across the US on Independence Day with little chance of relief over the next week, even after dark.
Forecasters warned that high overnight temperatures and the long-lasting duration of the extreme event will increase the danger, posing additional risks to human health and the rapid spread of wildfires.
Continue reading...Remains of missing 12-year-old girl in Australia found after apparent crocodile attack – CBS News
- Remains of missing 12-year-old girl in Australia found after apparent crocodile attack CBS News
- Police find remains of girl snatched by a crocodile while swimming in northern Australia The Associated Press
- Australian girl, 12, killed by crocodile while swimming in creek Fox News
- Remains of 12-year-old girl found after being attacked and taken by crocodile ABC News
- Remains found in search for 12-year-old following reported crocodile attack in Australia CNN
Israel has approved ‘largest West Bank land grab in 30 years’, watchdog says
Peace Now says approval of more than 12 sq km is biggest since peace process began in 1993
Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in more than three decades, according to a report released by an Israeli anti-settlement watchdog, a move that will exacerbate the escalating tensions surrounding the conflict in Gaza.
Peace Now said authorities recently approved the appropriation of 12.7 sq km (nearly 5 sq miles) of land in the Jordan valley, indicating it was “the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords”, referring to the start of the peace process.
Continue reading...Trump calls Biden ‘broken-down’ and claims he quit 2024 race in leaked video
Clip obtained by Daily Beast shows ex-president sitting in golf cart, holding cash, as he discusses presidential debate
“A broken-down pile of crap” on the verge of “quitting the race” was Donald Trump’s summation of Joe Biden in a surreptitiously filmed video leaked on Wednesday.
The clip, obtained by the Daily Beast, shows the 78-year-old former president sitting in a golf cart, holding a pile of cash, and with son Barron alongside, as he offers an analysis of the 2024 presidential campaign.
Continue reading...Russia poses as peacemaker, stepping up attacks on Ukraine’s east
Meanwhile, Ukraine rebuffs Hungary's ceasefire plan as an independent media outlet analyses Russian war-related deaths.
India preacher denies blame for crush deaths
Bhole Baba, who led the festival where some 120 people died, will co-operate with investigations.
Southeast Asia armed group Jemaah Islamiyah to disband: Report
Al-Qaeda-linked group orchestrated some of the deadliest attacks in Indonesia, including the 2002 Bali bombings.
Ghana chef accused of faking Guinness World Records award
Ebenezer Smith showed off a certificate but Guinness World Records say it's nothing to do with them.
EU brushes aside risk of China trade war over electric vehicle tariffs
Higher levies on Chinese EV imports to come into force despite carmakers’ fears of retaliation
The EU’s top trade official, Valdis Dombrovskis, has brushed aside concerns of trade-war retaliation from Beijing against European business, after the European Commission imposed duties on Chinese electric vehicles.
Dombrovskis, a European Commission vice-president, told Bloomberg Television that talks with China were ongoing, adding: “We are not seeing the basis for retaliation as what we are conducting is indeed in line with WTO [World Trade Organization] rules.”
Continue reading...France to deploy 30,000 police after election runoff amid fears of violence
Move comes after attacks on government spokesperson and RN candidate in buildup to Sunday’s poll
About 30,000 police will be deployed across France on Sunday night amid fears of violence after the final results of a snap election in which the far right hopes to gain a majority in parliament.
Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister, said 5,000 police would be on duty in Paris and its surrounding areas to “ensure that the radical right and radical left do not take advantage of the situation to cause mayhem”.
Continue reading...A newly discovered letter by Thomas Jefferson shows ‘a regular guy with financial burdens’
The note, valued at $40,000, is for sale in honor of Fourth of July, also the 198th anniversary of the president’s death
He came from one of America’s wealthiest landowning families, and was ranked the fourth richest US president in a recent study. But Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, harbored a secret during his time in the White House: he was almost constantly in penury, and struggled to pay his food bills, servants and other household expenses.
The revelation comes in a previously unpublished letter that Jefferson, who was president from 1801 to 1809, wrote to a friend who acted as his financial agent in October 1802.
Continue reading...Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts
Warriors from Britain joined far-flung Byzantine military campaigns in sixth century, grave goods suggest
Sixth-century Anglo-Saxon people may have travelled from Britain to the eastern Mediterranean and northern Syria to fight in wars, researchers have suggested, casting fresh light on their princely burials.
St John Simpson, a senior British Museum curator, and Helen Gittos, an Oxford scholar, have concluded that some of the exotic items excavated at Sutton Hoo, Taplow and Prittlewell, among other sites, originated in the eastern Mediterranean and north Syria and cannot have been conventional trade goods, as others have suggested.
Continue reading...China and Russia highlight ‘tectonic shifts in global politics’ – Al Jazeera English
- China and Russia highlight ‘tectonic shifts in global politics’ Al Jazeera English
- Summit With Xi And Putin Highlights 'Tectonic' Global Shifts Barron's
- Putin Pushes New China-Aligned Security Order to Challenge US Bloomberg
- Xi Jinping meets Putin in Kazakhstan, as race for dominance in Central Asia heats up Semafor
- Putin, Xi meet to bolster alliance against West ahead of NATO summit Fox News
French PM says ‘no place for violence and intimidation’ after candidate attacked putting up election posters – as it happened
Gabriel Attal said candidate Prisca Thevenot and members of her campaign team were attacked by four individuals
The Ecologists’ Marine Tondelier has criticised the far right National Rally’s Jordan Bardella, arguing that his party is allowing some candidates who made racist, anti-Semitic and misogynistic comments to remain on the ballot.
The French prosecutor’s office said it opened an investigation into an assault with a weapon against a public official, after government spokesperson and candidate Prisca Thevenot and her team were attacked yesterday, the Associated Press reported.
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