- Trump says US will ‘take care’ of Houthis if Red Sea strait blocked The Hill
- Tankers with Saudi crude turn back as Houthis open new front in US-Iran war Reuters
- Houthis Threaten Red Sea Blockade, Putting Oil Market at Greater Risk The New York Times
- The Houthis may soon discover the limits of Saudi strategic patience Al Jazeera
- Ships bound for Saudi Arabia turn around in sign of new Red Sea blockade The Washington Post
Brazil’s Amazon sees sharp decline in size of area burned in 2025
The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.
Turkish opposition leader to create breakaway party to take on Erdoğan – Financial Times
- Turkish opposition leader to create breakaway party to take on Erdoğan Financial Times
- Turkey's opposition leader to form new party to challenge Erdogan Reuters
- Deposed Turkish opposition leader plans new party Al Jazeera
- Turkey's main opposition party leader Ozgur Ozel announces resignation from CHP The Jerusalem Post
- Turkish deposed opposition leader plans to create a new party to take on Erdogan AP News
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 12, including family of six, medics say
Firas al-Masri, his wife and their four children died in one attack, which the Israeli military says targeted a Hamas operative.
Raskin Launches Investigation Into Evidence Epstein Was ‘Foreign Agent’ Working to Influence Trump Policies – Common Dreams
- Raskin Launches Investigation Into Evidence Epstein Was 'Foreign Agent' Working to Influence Trump Policies Common Dreams
- Democrats probe Epstein's ties with foreign governments Axios
- Raskin seeks documents into Jeffrey Epstein’s foreign contacts Politico
- House Democrats launch investigation into whether Jeffrey Epstein acted as a foreign agent CNN
- Raskin argues Epstein emails show lobbying on behalf of foreign governments The Hill
Ann Widdecombe was hit on head 21 times with hammer, prosecutors say – BBC
- Ann Widdecombe was hit on head 21 times with hammer, prosecutors say BBC
- UK politician Ann Widdecombe was struck 21 times with a hammer, court hears CNN
- Murdered ex-minister was struck on head with hammer 21 times, U.K. court told NBC News
- Man, 28, charged with murder of former MP Ann Widdecombe The Guardian
- British Politician Ann Widdecombe Was Murdered with a Hammer, Prosecutors Say The New York Times
Russian warship carries out rare live-fire exercise 45 miles off UK coast
New defence secretary Wes Streeting denounces drill by Neustrashimy as ‘performative and irresponsible’
A Russian warship fired its main cannon in a short notice test 45 miles south of Plymouth on Monday, the day Andy Burnham was appointed as prime minister.
The Neustrashimy suddenly announced it intended to fire its guns in the morning and requested that a British warship, which had been tracking it, retreat a couple of miles to a safe distance.
Continue reading...Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington
Meliá group says Donald Trump’s sanctions make it ‘impossible’ to keep any of its 34 sites open
A Spanish hotel chain is to cease all operations in Cuba at the end of the week due to “major difficulties” in doing business on the island under growing pressure from Washington.
The latest US sanctions make it “impossible, de facto and de jure, to maintain even minimal operational stability”, the Meliá group explained in a statement on Tuesday to the Spanish stock market regulator.
Continue reading...Zendaya faces backlash for wearing ancient Iranian jewellery at Odyssey event
Film star promotes Christopher Nolan film epic wearing gold artefacts dating back almost 3,000 years
The Odyssey is a story about a Greek king’s long journey home. But a pair of earrings worn on the new film adaptation’s press tour – and their long separation from their homeland – is sparking controversy.
At a photocall in London, Zendaya, who plays the goddess Athena in the Christopher Nolan film, wore a pair of earrings fashioned from Iranian artefacts dating back to 700BC.
Continue reading...The Queensland government promised to put victims first. Instead it buried a report from domestic violence survivors
Exclusive: Report from LNP-convened panel heavily criticises police responses to family violence and calls for civilian oversight
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The Queensland government has buried the findings of its own working group of domestic violence victim-survivors, after their report was heavily critical of police responses and called for a “civilian review mechanism” to escalate complaints about police.
The Liberal National government has repeatedly said it would “put victims at the heart” of the state’s justice policies.
Continue reading...U.S Passport Power Declines—From No. 1 To No. 10 In 20 Years – Forbes
- U.S Passport Power Declines—From No. 1 To No. 10 In 20 Years Forbes
- The world’s most powerful passports of the 21st century CNN
- These Are the Most Peaceful Countries With the Most Powerful Passports Condé Nast Traveler
- Passport Power Doubles as Global Peace Declines Henley & Partners
- US passport, once most powerful in the world, plummets in global ranking The Hill
Why Iran is risking so much over the Strait of Hormuz
None of the choices facing Iran’s leaders offer a clear path to victory, as the conflict with the US continues.
US identifies soldier killed destroying downed Iranian drone in Iraq
Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton died during controlled detonation, bringing total of US personnel killed in war to 17
The US military has identified an army soldier killed recently during a “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone in Iraq as Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton, of Fayetteville, North Carolina.
According to a press release from the US defense department on Tuesday morning, the 30-year-old Swinton was supporting overseas contingency operations in Iraq – and he was “killed in action during a controlled detonation of a downed One-Way Unmanned Aerial System” on Saturday at Erbil airbase in northern Iraq.
Continue reading...Trump’s HIV funding cuts having ‘severe and devastating’ impact around the world
The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief has saved 26m lives globally, but slashing of funds and dismantling of USAID have forced clinics to shut in dozens of countries
No part of the United States’ anti-HIV programme has escaped unscathed from Donald Trump’s funding cuts, despite pledges from the administration to protect care that saved lives around the world, a new report has found.
Funding cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) have caused “severe and devastating” disruption globally, with thousands of staff laid off and many clinics closed, according to research being presented next week at the 26th International Aids Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It warns that changes in US policy risk reversing progress in the fight against HIV/Aids.
Continue reading...Ukraine Hits Putin’s Economy With Strikes on Giant Warehouses – Bloomberg.com
- Ukraine Hits Putin’s Economy With Strikes on Giant Warehouses Bloomberg.com
- Ukraine bombs warehouses, targeting Wildberries — Russia’s version of Amazon The Washington Post
- Ukraine war briefing: Moscow targeted as Wildberries warehouse attacks continue The Guardian
- Ukraine fires 400 drones toward Moscow as Zelenskyy grapples with protests AP News
- Three Chinese injured in drone attack on Moscow Reuters
Fourth person dies in New York City legionnaires’ disease outbreak
US health officials say source of Upper East Side cluster has probably been eliminated after 76 people fell ill
An outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in New York City has claimed a fourth life, officials have said, as they again expressed confidence the source of the exposure had been eliminated.
A statement from the city’s health department on Monday said the outbreak, which was traced to cooling towers in buildings in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, had sickened 76 people – with 53 discharged after hospital treatment, and 12 others managing their recovery at home.
Continue reading...Stand still, make eye contact: Denmark tells tourists how to behave in a wolf encounter
Government urges visitors not to approach or feed wolves as it manages safety amid growing population
Danish authorities have advised tourists to stand still, make eye contact and put up “maximum resistance” in the event of attack if they encounter a wolf while on holiday.
After a 200-year absence, wolves started returning to Denmark in 2012. There are now estimated to be 49 wolves on the Danish peninsula of Jutland.
Continue reading...US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts
State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government
The US government’s latest allegations that Cuba is behind “many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history” and that its leaders pose “a unique threat to American homeland security” have come as startling revelations to those living under the six-month-long US oil blockade in Havana, where desperate people search through piles of uncollected rubbish for food, or else swelter at home in 24-hour-plus blackouts.
The unsigned 100-page report, Cuba: Capital of 21st-Century Communism, published by the US state department on Monday, blames Havana for everything from “the George Floyd riots to the rise of antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses”.
Continue reading...Rescuers in Afghanistan search for scores missing after floods kill at least 23 – AP News
- Rescuers in Afghanistan search for scores missing after floods kill at least 23 AP News
- Rescuers search for survivors amid risk of fresh floods in Afghanistan Al Jazeera
- Flash Floods Kill at Least 23 in Afghanistan The New York Times
- Flash floods kill at least 20 in Afghanistan and leave more than 100 missing NBC News
- Afghanistan: Deadly flash floods hit Nuristan province dw.com
Watch Texas police officer pull man from burning car
Bodycam and dashcam footage shows a police officer rescue a man seconds before his car was engulfed in flames in Texas.