Iran’s future will be determined by Iranians, not Trump, officials say
Ghalibaf says Iran's fate will not be decided by 'Epstein's gang' as Trump pushes for role in choosing supreme leader.
Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney’s wealthy beach suburbs
Teens are infuriating locals by riding over golf courses and doing wheelies on the Harbour Bridge.
US customs agency says it is not yet able to reimburse tariff costs
Agency says process being worked out to mediate disbursement of $166bn in tariff costs to more than 330,000 importers.
Zelenskyy visits front line as Ukraine and Russia swap 500 prisoners each
Completion of two-day POW exchange one of few tangible results as peace talks stall amid Middle East turmoil.
CCTV video captures moment strike lands next to boys’ school in Iran
CCTV video showing the moment a missile struck next to a boys’ school in Iran’s Qazvin.
US issues a license that authorizes sales of Venezuelan gold – AP News
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- Scoop: Trump officials broker massive U.S.-Venezuela gold deal Axios
- After official hails mining potential, US allows some transactions of Venezuelan gold Reuters
- Trafigura Strikes Deal to Buy Venezuela Gold in US Pact Bloomberg.com
- US issues limited licence for Venezuelan gold following high-level visit Al Jazeera
Ukrainian bank workers released after detention in Hungary
Kyiv has reacted furiously after officials in Budapest accused staff transporting cash to Ukraine of money laundering.
Beirut evacuees ‘sleeping in tents and cars’
Some residents in the Beirut suburb of Dahieh have left their homes amid ongoing air strikes by Israel.
Iran shares video of Tehran primary school after attack
A school in Tehran has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson.
Man accused of Natalie McNally’s murder beat previous partner, court told
Stephen McCullagh also covertly recorded ex-girlfriend’s counselling sessions after loss of a baby, jury hears
A man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend in Northern Ireland beat a previous partner, a court has heard.
Stephen McCullagh also covertly recorded the counselling sessions of the woman, just months before he met and allegedly killed Natalie McNally, Belfast crown court was told on Friday.
Continue reading...Met interviews women supected of facilitating Mohamed Al Fayed’s alleged sexual abuse
Three women in their 40s, 50s and 60s interviewed under caution in relation to alleged abuse by late Harrods owner
Three women have been interviewed under caution on suspicion of facilitating one of Britain’s worst sexual abuse scandals, involving the former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed and his alleged attacks over four decades.
Scotland Yard said 154 women may have been raped or sexually assaulted by Fayed, or been subject to human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Continue reading...Video shows explosions near Tehran’s Azadi Tower
A video has been released showing huge explosions near Tehran’s Azadi Tower.
Flight paths squeezed as Iran conflict closes more airspace
A drone attack on Azerbaijan has narrowed choices for airlines scrambling to respond to disruption in the Gulf.
Calls grow for independent probe into deadly Iranian girls’ school attack
'No excuse for killing girls in a classroom,' UN experts say, amid push for justice after Minab primary school assault.
White House posts ‘American justice’ video days after Iran school attack
The White House is facing criticism for posting a video montage mixing footage from the Iran war with cartoons.
‘If they don’t stop, Tehran will turn into Gaza’: Iranians describe night of terror
People tell of scenes of panic during airstrikes on Iran’s capital, with several saying they feared they would die
Sleeplessness, fear and exhaustion gripped residents of Tehran as successive waves of strikes struck the Iranian capital, judging from messages sent by people in the city after the latest overnight onslaught, which several described as the worst bombardment in six days of war.
With Iran imposing a near-total internet blackout, information emerging from inside the country is fragmentary and difficult to verify. But in a series of accounts sent through proxy connections, and calls with friends abroad, Tehranis described a night of intense explosions.
Continue reading...‘The memories stay behind’: hundreds of thousands flee the Israeli bombs in Beirut
The normally vibrant southern suburbs are a ghost town, their throngs of people replaced by rubble and fires
The ding of half a million phones, a pause and a collective gasp: in an instant, more than 500,000 people had been made homeless.
Shooting in the air, panicked phone calls and honking filled the streets of Beirut as people began to flee. Thousands abandoned their cars and began the slow march to the sea, desperate to escape the Israeli bombs which they knew would soon fall on their homes, whether they were in them or not.
Continue reading...Peruvian state responsible for mother’s death in forced sterilisation, court rules
Landmark ruling in Celia Ramos case finds 310,000 women, most Indigenous, were targeted in brutal 1990s campaign
The highest human rights court in Latin America condemned Peru on Thursday over the death of its citizen Celia Ramos, who died at the age of 34 in 1997 after undergoing sterilisation “under coercion”.
The landmark ruling by the inter-American court of human rights (IACHR) is the first on Peru’s forced sterilisation programme, which operated between 1996 and 2000 and was directed against poor, rural and Indigenous women.
Continue reading...Has Donald Trump failed to sell the Iran war to the world?
Some of Washington's allies have been critical and will not join the conflict.
US job market stalls, unemployment rate rises before Fed decision
The healthcare sector was hit the hardest , while tariff-exposed sectors remained stagnant .