Washington Post ordered to rehire Karen Attiah after Charlie Kirk posts
Karen Attiah was fired for posts about Charlie Kirk’s assassination that the Post said violated its social media policy.
Mexico’s Sheinbaum condemns governor’s return amid US drug charges
President Sheinbaum criticises Governor Rocha's return amid US drug charges, calling it 'reckless' and 'inappropriate'.
Yemen’s Houthis report attack on Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea
Saudi shipping company Bahri confirmed its vessel was struck, all crew members safe.
Videos showing dangerous driving easily found on social media – BBC
- Videos showing dangerous driving easily found on social media BBC
- Father's house rammed before son died in A66 crash BBC
- The daredevil trend turning Britain’s roads into death traps The Telegraph
- The latest dangerous social media trend that ‘gamifies’ deadly driving CNN
- Five more arrested over crash that killed seven people including two police officers The Guardian
Zelensky Says Ukraine Needs $27B as Russia Targets Odesa Ports, Grain Corridor – Kyiv Post
- Zelensky Says Ukraine Needs $27B as Russia Targets Odesa Ports, Grain Corridor Kyiv Post
- Exclusive: France wants to limit Ukraine's non-European procurement with EU money Euronews.com
- Ukraine faces €23B defense funding hole as Western cash lags politico.eu
- EU approves further €6.1 billion for Ukraine's defence Reuters
- Solidarity can't fill Kyiv's coffers euractiv.com
Video: Israel attacks desalination plant and mosque in Gaza
Israel has attacked a critical water desalination plant and a mosque in Gaza as it intensifies attacks on the enclave.
Israeli restrictions cause fuel shortage in occupied West Bank
Israeli restrictions are disrupting fuel supplies across the occupied West Bank.
Iran says it is ‘fully prepared’ to counter widened US economic sanctions
The US calls its latest sanctions on Iran an "economic D-Day", but Tehran says it has a plan to address them.
Why ‘pogrom’ best describes what’s happening in the occupied West Bank
Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank aren’t just ‘clashes’, they fit the definition of pogroms.
Israel threatens attacks in Gaza over children’s kites
Israel has threatened intensified attacks and forced displacement in Gaza over children’s kites
US threatens severe sanctions against countries with economic ties to Iran
Washington launches campaign to isolate Tehran but it is unclear whether it will apply measures to China
The US has threatened to impose severe sanctions against any country or entity maintaining economic ties with Iran, hoping to achieve with economic measures what military means have so far failed to do.
It is unclear, however, how far the Trump administration is prepared to go in confronting China, Iran’s biggest trading partner, which has signalled its resistance to US economic pressure to cut off links with an ally.
Continue reading...Trump administration seeks to formalise H-1B fee of more than $100,000
New proposal would charge $103,265 for the US's H-1B visas, and make permanent a temporary rule challenged by courts.
`I inherited 100 suburbs in search of the city´ – Politico
‘The Jackal’ Review: A Killer in a Beret – WSJ
Norway plans further development of Arctic drilling amid EU energy concerns
EU reviewing support of a ban on new drilling in the Arctic as war impacts energy security.
Mark Carney says Canada can’t accept US trade deal that would weaken French language
Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute
Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as an “irritant … in Quebec, these are rights,” days after receiving widespread praise from political leaders for rejecting a US trade proposal that many perceived as weakening the country’s Francophone culture.
The prime minister’s remarks came hours after the US president, Donald Trump, showed little interest in retreating from the spat, posting on social media that Canada had been “ripping off the United States of America for years” and threatening a swath of new, economically devastating tariffs on cars and trucks.
Continue reading...Kidnappers release video showing hundreds abducted from Nigerian mosque
Mass kidnappings highlight Nigeria's security crisis in the north as elections approach.
Trump administration announces global economic war on Iran
The US says it is targeting all of Iran’s sources of revenue, including oil.
What the renewed Black Sea blockade means for Ukraine’s farmers – France 24
- What the renewed Black Sea blockade means for Ukraine’s farmers France 24
- The renewed threat to global grain supplies The Economist
- Russia’s Blockade of Ukraine Threatens Next Year’s Food Crop Bloomberg
- Grain exports stall as Ukraine steps up attacks on Russia dw.com
- Russia not willing to accept ceasefire on grain ships – Zelenskyy Українська правда
Prince Harry quits board of wildlife charity after rangers’ human rights abuses
Spokesperson for Duke of Sussex says he remains an ‘active and avid supporter’ of African Parks’ mission
The Duke of Sussex has stepped down from the board of a major African wildlife charity that had been at the centre of a human rights controversy.
Prince Harry’s spokesperson confirmed he was no longer a trustee of African Parks, which admitted last year that human rights abuses were committed by its rangers in the Republic of the Congo.
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