‘I can see it’s upsetting’ – Trump asks BBC Ukrainian reporter about her family
The US president asks Myroslava Petsa about her husband on the frontline after she asks him about supplying air defences to Ukraine.
Jeff Bezos arrives in Venice for wedding amid protests over inequality
Amazon tycoon set to marry Lauren Sanchez in lavish Venice wedding as activists protest 'growing disparity'.
At least eight killed and hundreds hurt as Kenya protesters battle police
Thousands of people march across the country against President William Ruto's government.
Kenya’s Gen Z protests: Eight killed, hundreds hurt as protesters battle police – BBC
- Kenya's Gen Z protests: Eight killed, hundreds hurt as protesters battle police BBC
- What to Know About the Antigovernment Protests in Kenya The New York Times
- At least 16 people killed and 400 injured in Kenyan protests The Guardian
- Sixteen killed, hundreds injured, in antigovernment Kenyan protests Al Jazeera
- At least 8 killed as anti-government protests rock Kenya The Washington Post
Change in Nato mindset brought on by Vladimir Putin as much as Donald Trump
Allies agreed to raise defence spending to counter likely prospect of Russian remilitarisation if Ukraine war ends
The price was high, but for now, at least, a crisis in Nato has been averted. Donald Trump may like to take the credit for almost all of the 32 allies agreeing to a sharp increase in defence spending, but the reality is that the dramatic change in the Nato mindset was as much brought on by Vladimir Putin.
The Russian president’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was the first jolt, but there is a second uncomfortable reality. If there is a sustainable ceasefire in Ukraine, it will mean the deployment of a European-led peacekeeping force in the country – and after a while, Russia’s military might will inevitably recover.
Continue reading...The ‘12-Day War’ ended with an attack on Qatar. Why didn’t it escalate?
Even as the missiles flew across the waters separating Iran and Qatar, diplomacy was in motion. And it worked.
US to stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi, health secretary says
The announcement from Robert F Kennedy Jr comes as his controversial CDC vaccine panel meets for the first time.
Trump doesn’t rule out sending Ukraine more Patriot missiles after Zelenskyy meeting – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Trump doesn't rule out sending Ukraine more Patriot missiles after Zelenskyy meeting ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Trump Says He May Send Additional Patriot Systems to Ukraine The New York Times
- Sharp dressed man: Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the sartorial switch for NATO Euronews.com
- Donald Trump changes tune on Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin Financial Times
- Trump: Zelensky ‘couldn’t have been nicer’ during meeting The Hill
Did a ‘Harvard report’ reveal 377,000 Gazans are ‘missing’? The number has been misinterpreted – France 24
- Did a ‘Harvard report’ reveal 377,000 Gazans are ‘missing’? The number has been misinterpreted France 24
- Did a Harvard report reveal 377,000 people are missing in Gaza? No - Truth or Fake France 24
- Gaza Without Gazans: Only American Pressure Can Stop Israel’s New Endgame Foreign Affairs
- CAIR Says Harvard Dataverse Report Proves US/Israeli Gaza Aid Concentration Sites are Tactic of War, Not Humanitarian Relief CAIR
- Gaza aid sites risk chaos used to justify killings, report says The New Arab
NATO countries’ budgets compared: Defence vs healthcare and education
The decision by NATO members on Wednesday to spend five percent of their GDP on defence could shift budget priorities.
Scientists criticise cut in UK funding for global vaccination group
Five-year £1.25bn pledge to Gavi is 40% cut in real terms, which experts say will cost lives in developing countries
The UK has cut its funding to a leading global vaccination group by a quarter, a move that experts say will directly lead to the avoidable deaths of many thousands of children in developing countries.
The Foreign Office billed the £1.25bn commitment over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) as a major boost to the group’s work as well as to the UK’s status as a developer of vaccines. A series of aid agencies praised the decision.
Continue reading...‘Naughty’ bears escape, steal a week’s worth of honey and take long nap – The Washington Post
- ‘Naughty’ bears escape, steal a week’s worth of honey and take long nap The Washington Post
- Two Brown Bears Broke Out of Their Pen. Then They Ransacked the Honey Stash. The New York Times
- Mish and Lucy the bears eat 'a week's worth' of honey after escaping from their enclosure NBC News
- Rogue bears' honey supply replenished by donations BBC
- Bears escape park enclosure, eat a week's supply of honey upi.com
Trump administration sues Maryland court system over deportation rulings
The Trump government has criticised Maryland's federal judges for 'judicial overreach' in their immigration orders.
Iran’s parliament approves bill to suspend cooperation with IAEA
Move makes it harder to verify degree of damage inflicted on Iran’s three key nuclear sites by US and Israeli bombing
Iran’s parliament has unanimously agreed to suspend all cooperation with the IAEA, the UN’s nuclear inspectorate, making it harder for an independent expert assessment to be made about the degree of damage inflicted on Iran’s three key nuclear sites by the joint US and Israeli bombing.
It also makes it harder for the location of any highly enriched uranium to be known. The vote is a sign that Iran wants to harden its negotiating position on cooperation with the west in the wake of 12 days of attacks mounted by Israel and the US, but supported by European governments only with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
Continue reading...Israel says Iran’s nuclear plans set back ‘many years’ after US report casts doubt on impact – BBC
- Israel says Iran's nuclear plans set back 'many years' after US report casts doubt on impact BBC
- Live: Israel claims Iran's nuclear program set back 'years' Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- How badly have US strikes damaged Iran’s nuclear facilities? Here’s what to know CNN
- US, Israeli strikes on Iran nuclear sites: How big are radiation risks? Al Jazeera
- What is Iran’s Fordow nuclear site and why did Israel want a US strike? The Guardian
Did the US and Israel really obliterate Iran’s nuclear facilities?
A leaked intelligence report has cast doubt on Trump and Netanyahu’s claims about destroying Iran's nuclear programme.
NATO commits to major defence spending hike sought by Trump
The bloc agrees to boost spending to 5% of GDP, but Spain, Belgium and Slovakia say they will struggle to meet target.
Palestine Action are not terrorists. Israel is
Labelling peace activists as extremists while backing Israel’s genocide exposes the UK government's moral collapse.
Pakistan debates Trump Nobel peace prize nomination after US strikes on Iran
Pakistani government had credited US president with ‘pivotal leadership’ in its ceasefire negotiations with India
Donald Trump’s intervention into the Iran-Israel war, and brokering then announcing a ceasefire, has drawn a heated debate in Pakistan – where the government had formally nominated the US president for the Nobel peace prize as the US military was making its final preparations for a strike that threatened all-out war in the Middle East.
A statement in the early hours of Saturday local time – shortly before US B-2 bombers left the Whiteman air force base in Missouri and headed to Iran – had credited Trump for a “legacy of pragmatic diplomacy” and “pivotal leadership” for ensuring Pakistan’s ceasefire with India in a conflict that had begun with the killing of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.
Continue reading...Trump and Hegseth admit doubts about level of damage to Iran nuclear sites
President calls intelligence ‘inconclusive’, while defence secretary describes harm to facilities as ‘moderate to severe’
Donald Trump and the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, have admitted to some doubt over the scale of the damage inflicted on Iran’s nuclear sites by the US bombing at the weekend, after a leaked Pentagon assessment said the Iranian programme had been set back by only a few months.
“The intelligence was very inconclusive,” Trump told journalists at a Nato summit in The Hague, introducing an element of uncertainty for the first time after several days of emphatic declarations that the destruction had been total. “The intelligence says we don’t know. It could’ve been very severe. That’s what the intelligence suggests.”
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