How Trump falsely claims US is the ‘only country’ that uses mail-in voting
Trump opposes postal voting, claiming inaccuracies, but many countries use the system.
Netanyahu lashes out at Albanese as ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel’ as diplomatic row escalates
Israel’s prime minister accuses Australian leader of ‘abandoning’ Jews as tension escalates over visa cancellation and Palestinian recognition
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Benjamin Netanyahu has launched an extraordinary broadside against Anthony Albanese, labelling Australia’s prime minister “weak” in a social media post, hours after local Jewish groups called for calm in diplomatic relations.
“History will remember Albanese for what he is: A weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s Jews,” read a post on X from the account of Israel’s prime minister, on Tuesday evening Australian time.
Continue reading...Texas police hunt convict ‘mistakenly’ freed from jail
Police say the man was sentenced to jail for assaulting a family member and evading arrest.
European leaders discuss Ukraine security guarantees after Trump talks
Leaders continue flurry of diplomacy amid uncertainty over whether Putin-Zelenskyy meeting will be agreed
European leaders are holding fresh talks after their White House meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid uncertainty over Vladimir Putin’s readiness to meet the Ukrainian president.
The so-called “coalition of the willing” will first meet virtually, co-chaired by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, before joining a video conference hosted by the European Council president, António Costa.
Continue reading...‘We’re all going backwards’: dismay as Trump undoes Biden student-debt plan
Borrowers say higher repayments under changed Save plan means placing life on hold and creating further anxiety
When Faith, a 33-year-old in Burlington, North Carolina, went back to get her master’s degree in higher education administration in 2020-21, she hoped it would accelerate her career growth and maybe even help her get on the housing ladder.
Now, Faith has federal student loan debts of $38,113, and a repayment schedule that is much more demanding than she realized so she feels like the program stalled her progress.
Continue reading...Russia Responds To Washington Talks With Mass Drone And Missile Strikes On Ukraine – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Russia Responds To Washington Talks With Mass Drone And Missile Strikes On Ukraine Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Russia launches largest attack of August on Ukraine after Trump-Zelenskyy meeting ABC News
- Russia bombards Ukrainian city hours after Washington summit Reuters
- Ukraine hit by multiple Russian strikes amid US-led push for end to war Al Jazeera
- Russia Strikes Ukraine Hours After White House Meetings The New York Times
Netanyahu: Australia PM a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel, abandoned Australian Jews’ – The Times of Israel
- Netanyahu: Australia PM a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel, abandoned Australian Jews’ The Times of Israel
- Netanyahu slams Australia PM, says he 'betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia's Jews' Fox News
- Netanyahu lashes out at Albanese as ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel’ as diplomatic row escalates The Guardian
- Israel boots Australian diplomats, orders close look at visa requests as ties sour The Times of Israel
- Netanyahu says Israel ‘betrayed’ by Australia as relations plunge Al Jazeera
Young chatty workers disturbing older colleagues ‘not age harassment’, tribunal rules
Workers in their 20s and 30s that may annoy by socialising found not to be breaking workplace equality rules
Older employees who are disturbed by younger, more boisterous colleagues in the workplace are not victims of age harassment, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Employees in their 20s and 30s may annoy more mature co-workers by chatting, socialising and looking at their phones but they are not breaking workplace equality rules, the tribunal said.
Continue reading...Ukraine cuts off Putin’s pipeline profits—Europe’s Druzba oil deliveries halted after yesterday’s drone assault – Euromaidan Press
- Ukraine cuts off Putin’s pipeline profits—Europe’s Druzba oil deliveries halted after yesterday's drone assault Euromaidan Press
- Russian oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia halted after Ukrainian attack Reuters
- Ukraine Says It Made Fresh Attack on Russian Oil Pipeline System Bloomberg.com
- Budapest threatens Kyiv with electricity cut after strikes on pipeline Euronews.com
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Unraveling claims Russia created online ‘marketplace’ for kidnapped Ukrainian children – Snopes
- Unraveling claims Russia created online 'marketplace' for kidnapped Ukrainian children Snopes
- Trump says he discussed missing children with EU chief The Hill
- Allies to push for the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia Euronews.com
- Trump, EU's von der Leyen discuss plight of children in war Reuters
- Ukraine’s first lady demands return of thousands of kidnapped children as peace terms with Russia are considered New York Post
Florida man who fatally stabbed friend over Trump convicted of second-degree murder
Donald Jamesbrown Henry and Shawn Popp got into a fight over ‘Trump going bankrupt’ when the latter was attacked
A Florida man who fatally stabbed a friend during an argument in 2022 over Donald Trump’s businesses having gone bankrupt, is facing possibly spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murder.
Donald Jamesbrown Henry, 38, awaits a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for October after jurors found him guilty on Friday of second-degree murder in the killing of Shawn Popp, whose death came to be regarded by some as an example of the havoc that politics can wreak on interpersonal relationships in the US.
Continue reading...Entire church begins two-day journey across Swedish city
The landmark 113-year-old wooden building is at risk from subsidence and will be moved 5km on giant rolling platforms.
The ‘big church move’: Swedish town begins to roll historic building 5km
Kiruna Kyrka’s slow journey is part of effort to stop town being swallowed by Europe’s biggest underground mine
After eight years of planning, a cost of more than 500m kronor (£39m) and an early morning blessing, a church in northern Sweden began a slow-motion 5km journey on Tuesday to make way for the expansion of Europe’s biggest underground mine.
The 672-tonne Kiruna Kyrka, a Swedish Lutheran church inaugurated in 1912, is to be slowly rolled to its new home over two days, at a pace of half-a-kilometre an hour.
Continue reading...Watch: Two presidents, two very different Oval Office encounters
Onlookers gasped as Trump and Zelensky's meeting in Washington in February descended into chaos, but times have changed.
WA government put ‘very rosy spin’ on report into Woodside emissions at Murujuga, scientist’s private email says
Report part of a project used in lobbying effort to dismiss UN concerns that industrial emissions were damaging 50,000-year-old ancient rock art
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The Western Australia government “put a very rosy spin” on a summary report of a project checking if pollutants from Woodside were damaging 50,000-year-old rock art, according to a private email sent by the lead scientist.
In an email released to the ABC, Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Project lead scientist Prof Ben Mullins, of Curtin University, said the WA government had “insisted” on writing the summary report, despite a contract saying that Curtin should write it.
Continue reading...Woman sexually assaulted on flight challenges UK rules on compensation
Woman who was attacked on flight from Qatar to London was denied payout because plane was not registered in UK
A woman who was sexually assaulted while sleeping on a flight to London is challenging UK government rules that disqualify her from a compensation scheme because the plane was not registered in Britain.
She was attacked on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha, Qatar, to Gatwick in September last year.
Continue reading...Canada’s Conservative leader wins back parliament seat
Poilievre won an Alberta by-election with 80% of the vote after losing his seat in another riding in April's general election.
Canada’s Conservative leader wins back parliament seat
Poilievre won an Alberta by-election with 80% of the vote after losing his seat in another riding in April's general election.
Zelenskyy’s new outfit was not a response to difficult first White House visit, says designer
Ukrainian designer Viktor Anisimov said outcome of crucial meeting with Trump was more important than fashion
On Monday evening, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, garnered compliments from Donald Trump and the White House press pool for his formal jacket and trousers.
But for the ensemble’s designer, Viktor Anisimov, the outcome of the meeting, not the verdict on the outfit, was of more concern.
Continue reading...Ukrainian Drone Attack Sparks Fire at Volgograd Oil Refinery – The Moscow Times
- Ukrainian Drone Attack Sparks Fire at Volgograd Oil Refinery The Moscow Times
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