- Science and local sleuthing identify a 250-year-old shipwreck on a Scottish island ABC News
- Wreck of Revolutionary War frigate resurfaces on Scottish beach The Washington Post
- Archaeologists identify 250-year-old Shipwreck in Orkney BBC
- Shipwreck found by schoolboy on Scottish island identified as Revolutionary War frigate later used to hunt whales in Arctic CBS News
- ‘Long-lived and lucky’ ship wrecked off Orkney was at siege of Quebec, experts find | Archaeology The Guardian
Obama breaks silence on Trump’s ‘outrageous’ call to prosecute him
Office of ex-US president breaks precedent and warns that allegations of attempted ‘coup’ are ‘attempt at distraction’
Barack Obama has broken his silence on calls from Donald Trump for him to be prosecuted by unequivocally rejecting his successor’s accusations that he tried to engineer a “coup” following Trump’s 2016 election victory by “manufacturing” evidence of Russian interference.
Obama’s office took the unusual step of issuing an emphatic refutation after Trump told reporters that his predecessor had “[tried] to lead a coup” against him and was guilty of “treason” over intelligence assessments suggesting that Russia had intervened to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in the campaign.
Continue reading...Oil-rich Sudanese region becomes new focus of war between army and rival forces
Control of oil-rich Kordofan is a big prize for both warring groups in their bid to take the country, analysts say.
Iran’s detainees in ‘unbearable’ conditions after Israeli strikes on prison
Iranian prisoners transferred to other facilities report overcrowding and unhygienic conditions.
Evin prison: Iran’s detainees in ‘unbearable’ conditions after Israeli strikes – BBC
- Evin prison: Iran's detainees in 'unbearable' conditions after Israeli strikes BBC
- Iran: Deliberate Israeli attack on Tehran’s Evin prison must be investigated as a war crime Amnesty International
- 27 inmates from notorious Iranian prison still at large after Israeli strike: Tehran Fox News
- Amnesty calls for war crimes probe into Israeli strike on Iran’s Evin Prison The Times of Israel
- 27 inmates are still at large following an Israeli airstrike during the 12-day war, Iran says FOX4KC.com
Camp Mystic: Why were so many people killed there during Texas floods?
The recent floods in Kerr County, Texas killed 135 people, including many young children.
Judges end Trump pick Alina Habba’s tenure as New Jersey’s top prosecutor
Justice department retaliates by removing career prosecutor named as Habba’s replacement
Alina Habba, Donald Trump’s defence lawyer during a defamation case brought by the writer E Jean Carroll, has lost her bid to become New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, with the clock running out on her interim status on Tuesday.
According to an order from New Jersey’s district court, a panel of judges declined to permanently appoint Habba to be the state’s US attorney, signaling a rebuke against the Trump administration.
Continue reading...Protesters in Ukraine denounce law curbing anticorruption agencies
Hundreds of protesters rally in Kyiv to oppose the measure, in a rare show of antigovernment anger.
Ozzy Osbourne death: ‘He was one of nature’s good guys’
The BBC's David Sillito looks back at the life of Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman of heavy metal band Black Sabbath, who has died at the age of 76.
AFP journalists warn their ‘last reporters will die’ working in current Gaza conditions – AP News
- AFP journalists warn their ‘last reporters will die’ working in current Gaza conditions AP News
- News agency says its Gaza journalists suffering health woes as union warns they will die without intervention Fox News
- Agence France-Presse says it wants to pull its hunger-stricken journalists out of Gaza NPR
- Anadolu calls for global response as Gaza journalists face famine, attacks Anadolu Ajansı
- 'Utterly Defeated': Hungry, Exhausted Journalists Struggle to Document Gaza War Amid Worsening Food Shortages Haaretz
Is Israel implementing a strategy of genocide by starvation in Gaza?
Those who have survived relentless attacks so far now face famine
AFP news agency calls on Israel to allow evacuation of its freelance contributors
Palestinian journalists working for French organisation say desperate hunger and lack of clean water is making them ill
News agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has called on Israel to allow the immediate evacuation of its freelance contributors and their families from the Gaza Strip, a day after they warned that they were struggling to work due to starvation.
In a statement, the French news agency said its freelancers faced an “appalling situation” in Gaza. A 21-month war with Israel has devastated the territory, a conflict triggered by Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel in October 2023.
Continue reading...At least 15 starve to death in 24 hours in Gaza as Israel continues attacks
Latest malnutrition-related deaths include a six-week-old baby, as dozens more killed in Israeli strikes across enclave.
No food, no aid: hunger is killing people in Gaza
Israel’s blockade has plunged Gaza into an increasingly dire malnutrition crisis.
The ‘underwater bushfire’ cooking Australia’s reefs
Divers at one of Australia's world-famous reefs said their experience was "like swimming on a corpse".
Big cat owners hide their animals from Pakistan crackdown
Punjab rangers launch raids after one pet lion escaped and attacked a woman and two children.
Trump dumps a pile of MLK files. Why not the Epstein files?
Trump releases MLK files amidst backlash over withholding Epstein documents, fuelling selective transparency claims.
Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of ‘treason’ over 2016 election claims
The president repeated unsubstantiated claims that investigations into Russian election interference were 'seditious'.
Syrian Inquiry Says Military Leaders Did Not Order Sectarian Killings in March – The New York Times
- Syrian Inquiry Says Military Leaders Did Not Order Sectarian Killings in March The New York Times
- Syrian committee reports 1,426 killed in March violence, says commanders did not order it Reuters
- More than 1,400 killed in sectarian violence in coastal Syria, report finds Al Jazeera
- Opinion | The Fallout From Syria’s Massacres The Wall Street Journal
- Syria's Sharaa receives report on sectarian violence against Alawites, doesn't publish findings The Times of Israel
Agence France-Presse says it wants to pull its hunger-stricken journalists out of Gaza – NPR
- Agence France-Presse says it wants to pull its hunger-stricken journalists out of Gaza NPR
- AFP news agency calls on Israel to allow evacuation of its freelance contributors The Guardian
- AFP journalists at risk of starvation in Gaza, news agency says Euronews.com
- France pushes Israel to let media into Gaza politico.eu
- AFP calls on Israel to allow evacuation of its journalists from Gaza Al Jazeera