Frustration grows as Iran’s wartime internet shutdown breaks grim record
Since January, Iran's near total internet blackout has impacted jobs and businesses.
Iran strikes Kuwait’s oil infrastructure before Opec+ supply talks
Members reportedly agree a rise of 206,000 barrels a day in May, but move symbolic while strait of Hormuz is effectively closed
Iranian drones have struck Kuwait’s oil infrastructure, causing “severe material damage” that threatens to further disrupt oil supplies already hit by the US-Israel war on Iran.
The drone strikes on Sunday came hours before members of the Opec+ group of major global oil suppliers gathered to discuss how to bolster output despite Iran’s effective closure of the strait of Hormuz shipping route.
Continue reading...Video captures Iranian missile striking residential building in Haifa
Video captured the moment of a direct hit by an Iranian missile on a residential building in Israel’s Haifa.
Rodent infestations and attacks spread in Gaza tent camps
Rat infestations are spreading through Gaza’s displacement camps, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports.
‘Refuse to celebrate’: Christians in Gaza mark sombre Easter amid genocide
Christians pray in quiet gatherings to mark the resurrection of Christ while holding on to hope for survival and peace.
Israeli air strikes, shelling across Lebanon add to rising death toll
Widespread Israeli attacks pounded Lebanon from Beirut to Tyre on Sunday, adding to a rising death toll.
OPEC+ agrees to hike oil output, warns of slow recovery after attacks
The rise is largely symbolic as some key members are unable to raise production amid the US-Israel war on Iran.
Chance of alien life ‘goes to heart’ of space missions, Nasa chief says
Jared Isaacman says odds of evidence we are not alone are ‘pretty high’ four days after Artemis II rocket lifted off
The top official at Nasa says that the chance of alien existence is a factor in how the US space agency plans its missions.
Speaking on Sunday, Nasa administrator Jared Isaacman told CNN’s Meet the Press that investigating the existence of alien life “goes to the heart of many things that we do at Nasa”, adding: “Our job here is to go out and try and unlock the secrets of the universe.”
Continue reading...‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’
Some US politicians have reacted with alarm and questioned the US president’s mental state after Donald Trump issued an abusive, expletive-laden threat to Iran in which he called on the regime to “open the fuckin’ strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards”, as he threatened to further attack the country’s energy and transport infrastructure.
The US president wrote on his Truth Social platform: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Continue reading...Jewish settlers burn farm sites, buildings in West Bank – The Jerusalem Post
- Jewish settlers burn farm sites, buildings in West Bank The Jerusalem Post
- Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, burn house, two tents, and three vehicles near Nablus Middle East Eye
- Eight arrested over fiery settler rampage in West Bank village The Times of Israel
- Fattouh: Attacks in Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya and Qusra Are War Crimes and Systematic Ethnic Cleansing شبكة يافا الإخبارية
- Israeli occupiers wound 10 Palestinians, burn homes and vehicles in West Bank attacks aa.com.tr
At least 14 people killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon
Hezbollah fires projectiles at northern Israel while Israeli troops push deeper into southern Lebanon.
Pope warns world is becoming ‘indifferent’ to violence
Pope Leo XIV used his first Easter mass at the Vatican to urge global leaders to “choose peace”.
Seven arrested over alleged support for Palestine Action at RAF Lakenheath protest
Protesters held on Sunday after joining a Lakenheath Alliance for Peace encampment outside airbase in Suffolk
Seven people have been arrested under suspicion of supporting the banned group Palestine Action after a protest in Suffolk.
They were arrested on Sunday morning after joining a peace encampment to create a blockade outside the main gate of Lakenheath airbase. The protest was organised after media reports that a US fighter jet shot down in Iran on Friday had taken off from the Lakenheath base.
Continue reading...Iranian missile strikes industrial area in southern Israel
Video captured the moment an Iranian missile hit the Ramat Hovav industrial area in southern Israel.
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
When Corentin Roudaut moved to Paris 10 years ago, he was too scared to cycle. The IT developer had biked everywhere as a student in Rennes but felt overwhelmed by the bustling French capital. Cars were everywhere. Cyclists had almost no protection.
But once authorities carved out space for a segregated bike lane on Boulevard Voltaire near his home in the 11th arrondissement, Roudaut returned to the two-wheel commute and did not look back.
Continue reading...Earth in rear-view of Artemis II astronauts
Crew nears moon on historic flyby and sends back striking images of Earth.
Israel’s Ben-Gvir details plans for Palestinian ‘death row’
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir excitedly outlined plans to establish a “death row” for Palestinians.
Despite propaganda coup of F-15 crew rescue, downing is reminder to US that Iran can fight back
Donald Trump will claim rescue as a triumph but 48-hour drama should be a caution against launching ground operation
Donald Trump will inevitably claim the rescue of the second crew member of the downed F-15 fighter as a propaganda triumph, though the 48-hour drama is a reminder that an undefeated Iran is able to fight back and inflict costs on the US.
It also ought to be a caution for a White House still contemplating whether to launch a ground operation in Iran to seize an island in the Persian Gulf – particularly if there a serious ambition to extract Iran’s highly enriched uranium from deep underground.
Continue reading...Trump threatens ‘hell’ for Iran over Hormuz Strait as deadline approaches
US president threatens to strike power plants and bridges on Tuesday in an expletive-laden social media post.
Artemis II astronauts expected to reach far side of moon on Monday
Nasa team get deeper into space than any humans have ever ventured
Astronauts on the historic Artemis II mission are expected to reach the far side of the moon on Monday, venturing deeper into space than any humans before.
Nasa has reported satisfaction with progress toward the lunar fly-round since the team’s launch on Wednesday, with the three Americans and one Canadian on course to break the record for maximum range from Earth just as a total solar eclipse awaits.
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