AP Exclusive: Cyprus president says the EU needs a clear playbook on helping members under attack – AP News

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  1. AP Exclusive: Cyprus president says the EU needs a clear playbook on helping members under attack  AP News
  2. Costa steps up pressure to break EU budget deadlock  politico.eu
  3. Zelenskyy to crash EU summit after calling Orbán’s bluff in €90bn loan row  Financial Times
  4. Informal meeting of heads of state or government of 23-24 April 2026 - Invitation letter by President António Costa to the members of the European Council  consilium.europa.eu
  5. Cyprus summit will struggle to exit EU crisis doom loop  Euractiv
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Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief

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George Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at ‘historic low’ and two allies are likely to keep diverging

Britain’s high military dependence on the US is “no longer tenable” and the UK has to become increasingly independent of the special relationship with Washington, a former Nato chief has said.

George Robertson, who last week accused British leaders of a “corrosive complacency” towards defence, said on Wednesday that the traditional allies were diverging over values – and that even after Donald Trump leaves the White House, the separation was likely to continue.

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Palestine Action activist who hit officer with sledgehammer ‘panicked’, court told

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Samuel Corner, 23, says he struck Sgt Kate Evans to protect co-defendant amid 2024 Elbit Systems raid near Oxford

A Palestine Action activist who struck a police officer with a sledgehammer during a protest at an Israeli-linked arms factory acted to protect a co-defendant he believed was being seriously hurt, a court has heard.

Samuel Corner, 23, is accused of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Sgt Kate Evans during a raid on the Elbit Systems facility, in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024.

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EU agrees to unblock €90bn loan for Ukraine after Hungary lifts veto

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Agreement for urgently needed loan reached after Ukraine resumed pumping Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia

EU member states have reached agreement on unblocking an urgently needed €90bn (£78bn) loan for Kyiv and a new package of sanctions against Moscow after Ukraine resumed pumping Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, prompting Budapest to lift its veto.

Cyprus, which holds the bloc’s rotating presidency, said member states’ ambassadors had agreed to launch “written procedures” for the final approval of the loan and the sanctions package, with formal signoff on both due by Thursday afternoon.

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Researcher believes Noah’s Ark found in Turkey after new underground scans – Fox News

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  1. Researcher believes Noah's Ark found in Turkey after new underground scans  Fox News
  2. Noah’s Ark mystery deepens as researcher blows lid on strange rock formations in Turkey  New York Post
  3. New evidence in Türkiye reignites the debate over the location of “Noah’s Ark”  صوت الإمارات
  4. Turkey’s Mount Ararat Formation Sparks Fresh Claims of Noah’s Ark Discovery  ColombiaOne.com
  5. Mystery on Mount Ararat: alleged tunnels of Noah's Ark appear in a site shaped like a boat and reignite one of the oldest searches in history.  CPG Click Petróleo e Gás
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Podcast interviews of NSW couple jailed for abusing their daughter in the spotlight

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Exclusive: Corrective Services investigates how Richard Guilliatt of The Australian was able to interview Rob and Karen Gilfillan for Shadow of Doubt

Corrective Services New South Wales is investigating how a journalist from The Australian was able to interview a man and a woman convicted of abusing their daughter for a podcast that raised questions about their guilt.

After legal restrictions were lifted last month the victim said the podcast had been highly detrimental to her mental health.

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Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds

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NSW and Queensland governments ‘severely underdelivered’ on promised infrastructure to improve water flows, independent review finds

Two state governments have drastically underdelivered more than $160m in infrastructure measures to improve river health in the northern Murray-Darling basin eight years since they were promised, a major independent review has found.

This includes failure by the New South Wales government to secure any of the private land access needed to improve water flows over floodplains in the state’s Gwydir region, where scientists had to scramble to rescue turtles in dried up wetlands last week.

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