- More than 48,000 migrants return to Morocco after crossing into Ceuta Euronews.com
- What Caused the Surge in Ceuta? The New York Times
- Spain says migrants are returning from Ceuta after 57 die in border rush Reuters
- Firebrand rep unloads on socialist prime minister as 'hordes of military aged men' swarm European country Fox News
- Ceuta: Spain says most migrants have returned to Morocco DW.com
Adam O’Neal departs as Post Opinions editor after a year – The Washington Post
- Adam O’Neal departs as Post Opinions editor after a year The Washington Post
- Washington Post’s opinion editor resigns after just one year in role The Guardian
- Editor of Washington Post Opinion Section Resigns After 1 Year The New York Times
- WaPo's opinion editor is leaving a year after a controversial shake-up. Read his memo to staff. Business Insider
- Washington Post opinion editor Adam O'Neal steps down just a year after Jeff Bezos hired him to revamp section New York Post
Trump’s Gaza Deal Sparks Questions on Whether Israel and Hamas Will Comply – The New York Times
- Trump’s Gaza Deal Sparks Questions on Whether Israel and Hamas Will Comply The New York Times
- Official says Israeli troops won't pull back in Gaza without 'genuine' Hamas disarmament BBC
- World reacts with cautious optimism to Hamas disarmament agreement Al Jazeera
- Trump brokers Hamas disarmament deal as Saudi Arabia plans Houthi offensive Fox News
- U.S. Says Hamas Has Agreed to Broad Plan to Disarm wsj.com
Gavin Newsom reveals personal income of $1.7m-$2m in tax return release
California governor and wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, release 2022-2024 filings amid Trump investigation
Gavin Newsom and his wife made from $1.7m to $2m annually from 2022 through 2024, and paid about half a million a year in federal and state taxes, according to tax returns released by his office.
The California Democratic governor’s office released more than 700 pages of tax filings spanning four years for reporters to review, offering a window into Newsom’s finances as he prepares to leave office and considers a 2028 presidential bid. Newsom’s office did not release returns for 2025, because the couple filed for an extension and will complete those returns in October.
Continue reading...High court clears way for clinical trial giving puberty blockers to children
Legal challenge to King’s College London research study claimed it could harm participants but was rejected
A clinical trial of drugs that can delay puberty can go ahead after a high court judge threw out a legal challenge on Friday.
Campaigners had launched the attempt to halt the planned research into puberty blockers, to be run by researchers at King’s College London (KCL), on the grounds that they believed it could harm the children taking part.
Continue reading...Is the cyclosporiasis outbreak slowing? Test-makers are hopeful
Data by one test-maker shows a positivity drop, but rate could be influenced by number of people taking test
The maker of a popular laboratory test said the cyclosporiasis outbreak in the US may be slowing. An outbreak of infections from the single-celled parasite has grown to more than 18,000 suspected and confirmed cases in late July, the nation’s largest on record.
The midwest has been hit particularly hard in the outbreak, where public health officials have linked infections in nine states to iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms’ Mexico operations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said people in at least nine states appeared to have connected cases.
Continue reading...India’s monsoon rains in danger as UN chief warns planet is ‘on fire’
António Guterres says strengthening El Niño will help push the world’s climate crisis into ‘uncharted territory’
India’s monsoon is in danger and hotter, drier conditions are forecast across much of the world as a stronger El Niño weather system is taking hold, weather experts have warned.
António Guterres, the UN secretary general, said the strengthening El Niño was “adding fuel to a planet already on fire” and pushing the world into “uncharted territory”.
Continue reading...Oil price rises after Iran says it stops ships in Hormuz – Reuters
- Oil price rises after Iran says it stops ships in Hormuz Reuters
- Iran strikes tankers under US escort in Hormuz strait as Trump gathers cabinet to discuss war The Guardian
- Oil prices rise after Iran says it attacked two tankers transiting Strait of Hormuz CNBC
- Iran Strikes 2 Tankers Trying To Cross Strait Of Hormuz Under US "Air Escort" NDTV
- Two Violating Oil Tankers Disabled in Strait of Hormuz: IRGC - Politics news - Tasnim News Agency تسنیم
BP puts North Sea oil and gas business up for sale
Move will end six decades of production in area, as new CEO tries to simplify company and cut debt
BP has put its North Sea oil and gas business up for sale as it looks to end six decades of production from the basin.
The firm announced on Friday morning it had launched a formal process to market its North Sea business for a potential sale. The move comes as BP’s new chief executive, Meg O’Neill, tries to simplify the company and cut its debt levels.
Continue reading...Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In breaks 73-year record to become longest-running UK No 1 single
Duetting stars surpass record set in 1953, when crooner Frankie Laine hit the top with I Believe
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have scored the longest running UK No 1 single in history with Rein Me In, beating a record that has stood since 1953.
Back then, the UK singles chart had been running for less than a year and contained just 12 songs when I Believe, a bombastic ballad by US crooner Frankie Laine, hit No 1 and spent a total of 18 weeks on the chart.
Continue reading...Israeli military cracks down on West Bank village as settlers march in – Reuters
- Israeli military cracks down on West Bank village as settlers march in Reuters
- Violence surges in West Bank as Israeli settlers escalate attacks on Palestinians PBS
- Palestine weekly: West Bank in flames after Tal killings Al Jazeera
- Photos show the aftermath of settler violence in the West Bank and strikes in Gaza AP News
- Jewish Settlers Plan 'Memorial Hikes' Through West Bank Villages After Deadly Clashes Haaretz
Pakistani rescuers recover 3 bodies of the 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak after an avalanche – AP News
- Pakistani rescuers recover 3 bodies of the 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak after an avalanche AP News
- Broad Peak avalanche strikes world-famous climber Nims Purja in Himalayan tragedy National Geographic
- Renowned Netflix documentary climber among those missing in avalanche USA Today
- 4 Bodies Found and 6 Climbers Missing After Avalanche in Pakistan The New York Times
- Broad Peak Search Continues, Shocked K2 Teams Abort Summit Push Explorersweb »
Daughter of British couple killed in Spanish wildfire rejects claim they ignored order to leave
Exclusive: Danielle Kirton calls on Ed Miliband to help her get answers about why evacuation order came too late
The bereaved daughter of a British couple who died in a Spanish wildfire is calling on the foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, to get answers from Spain’s government about why her parents were not told to evacuate until it was too late.
Severe wildfires have burned across Spain and France since early July, killing people, destroying thousands of homes and forcing more than 300,000 people to flee.
Continue reading...TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using ‘smart glasses’ – BBC
- TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using 'smart glasses' BBC
- TikTok influencer under investigation over secret filming on Ullapool to Stornoway ferry Ross-shire Journal
- CalMac rule change after man filmed crew and customers with Meta glasses Largs and Millport News
- Police investigate YouTuber for secretly filming Scots with Meta glasses STV News
- TikToker Is Under Police Investigation for Secret Filming With Smart Glasses Gadget Review
Why Ukraine is targeting Russia’s ‘Amazon’ Wildberries with major strikes – The Independent
- Why Ukraine is targeting Russia’s ‘Amazon’ Wildberries with major strikes The Independent
- Ukraine hits more outlets of Russia's largest online marketplace to bring the war home PBS
- Russian e-retailer Ozon says Ukrainian drone alert forces it to evacuate Tatarstan warehouse Reuters
- Ukraine Hits Wildberries Logistics Center and Energy Facility in Volgograd, Killing At Least One The Moscow Times
- The Wildberries Theory of Russian Defeat Foreign Policy
Boss of £300m used-car firm was ousted after ‘orchestrated plan’ by investors, judge rules
Multimillionaire Peter Waddell is also found to have been properly dismissed from Big Motoring World for gross misconduct
A multimillionaire used-car salesman was ousted from his £300m company after “a pre-conceived and orchestrated plan” devised by private equity investors that had backed his business, a high court judge has ruled.
Peter Waddell, 60, was forced out as the chief executive of the Kent-based dealership Big Motoring World in 2024 in a coup that resulted in “more-or-less open warfare” at the car seller and caused “unfair prejudice” to the investment company that held Waddell’s majority stake.
Continue reading...Moscow Court Orders Detention of Boris Nemtsov’s Daughter in Absentia – The Moscow Times
Iran strikes tankers under US escort in Hormuz strait as Trump gathers cabinet to discuss war
Energy prices have soared again since fighting between US and Iran resumed two weeks ago as conflict spreads across Middle East
Iran has said it struck two tankers trying to pass through the strait of Hormuz under the escort of the US military as Donald Trump gathered his cabinet to discuss the stalling war and rising prices as midterm elections in the US loom.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Friday that the “non-compliant oil tankers … were struck and brought to a halt, while four other oil tankers quickly changed course and returned to their previous positions”. The military body said the ships had tried to pass through the strait via an “undeclared route” and under US aerial escort.
Continue reading...Hundreds escape Greek wildfire by sea as blazes continue across Europe – BBC
- Hundreds escape Greek wildfire by sea as blazes continue across Europe BBC
- ‘Nightmarish’ Wildfire in Crete Kills Two Firefighters as Thousands Evacuate The New York Times
- Greece fights fires near Athens as France, Spain improve Reuters
- Crete wildfires cause evacuations and firefighter deaths DW.com
- Greece wildfires: is it safe to travel right now? Latest advice The Times
FTSE 100 on track for best month since first US attacks on Iran five months ago – as it happened
Live, rolling coverage as London’s biggest companies defy Middle East disruption and UK petrol prices rise to around £1.60 per litre, the highest since Donald Trump ordered renewed strikes
The story piquing the interest of the financial press this morning is that of Leopold Aschenbrenner, the AI Wunderkind (he’s German-born) who has been forced to sell off his fund in a fire sale after the AI boom ran out of steam.
The 24-year-old had persuaded a lot of people to give him a lot of money for a hedge fund, after previously working for OpenAI and the FTX Future Fund, a charitable arm of the fraudulent crypto empire of Sam Bankman-Fried, who is now in prison. Aschenbrenner ploughed that money into debt-fuelled bets on artificial intelligence companies, earning huge returns until he found out that stocks can also fall.
The trader dubbed the “Nostradamus of AI” would have been hard-pressed to foresee how quickly his high-flying hedge fund would run into trouble.
The firm’s rapid downward spiral is a familiar tale, as Silicon Valley and Wall Street once again threw their weight behind a bright-eyed but untested investor who promised this time would be different. “Everybody always wants to find the next golden child,” said one longtime hedge fund executive. “It just keeps happening.”
In less than 24 hours — which included a conversation between Griffin and Aschenbrenner — Griffin’s Citadel hedge fund reached out to Situational Awareness and snapped up the investments at a discount, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified citing private information.
It was a startling reversal for Aschenbrenner, a former researcher at OpenAI who – before starting his hedge fund roughly two years ago — had no previous investment experience. His fledging firm has watched its assets plunge from $45bn at the start of July to about $10bn.
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