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- Extraordinary US-China Cyber Meeting Revealed
Extraordinary US-China Cyber Meeting Revealed Authored by John Mills via The Epoch Times, The Wall Street Journal recently revealed an unprecedented meeting that occurred in December 2024, which addressed the ongoing series of cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure. In this meeting, described as a […]
- Single Deadliest Yemen Strike Of Trump Presidency Destroys Vital Oil Port
Single Deadliest Yemen Strike Of Trump Presidency Destroys Vital Oil Port Fresh US airstrikes on Yemen Thursday marked the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump's new campaign targeting the Houthi rebels. The Pentagon has been intensely bombing Yemen since March 15, when the Gaza […]
- Bovard Warns Conservatives, Libertarians Over Foreign Student Persecution Cases
Bovard Warns Conservatives, Libertarians Over Foreign Student Persecution Cases Authored by Jim Bovard "If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion," economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. […]
- Ukraine Energy Strike Moratorium Has Ended, Kremlin Declares
Ukraine Energy Strike Moratorium Has Ended, Kremlin Declares The Kremlin on Friday confirmed that the US-brokered ceasefire on energy sites has effectively ended. Last month Ukraine and Russia agreed to temporarily pause all attacks against each other's energy infrastructure. Washington hailed this is […]
- Waste Of The Day: Ex-Speakers Enjoy House Money
Waste Of The Day: Ex-Speakers Enjoy House Money Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Congressional salaries and office space already cost taxpayers a bundle. Yet few realize that the speaker of the House gets to keep their office space, staff and budget for five years after […]
Independent | UK News
- Boy, 14, ‘crushed to death by heavy machinery’ only ever wanted to be a farmer, heartbroken father says
‘All Harry ever wanted to be was a farmer’ his devastated father said
- Yvette Cooper facing fresh pressure to close ‘prison-like’ Wethersfield asylum camp
Exclusive: The home secretary is under fresh pressure to close a ‘prison-like’ camp housing asylum seekers
- UK weather: Heavy rain threatens Easter bank holiday washout after Met Office warning for downpours
Although yellow warnings have been lifted for most of the UK, more rain is on the way for parts of the country in the coming days
- Councils could use new AI tool to ‘digitise records and cut planning backlogs’
Ministers hope the tool will perform in 40 seconds tasks that take around one to two hours for planners to complete.
- Single-sex spaces for women will be ‘more dangerous’ after Supreme Court ruling – and this is why
TV personality and trans advocate Jaxon Feeley told The Independent the Supreme Court’s judgment will be impossible to police
The Straits Times | World News
National Interest | News
The Guardian | World News
- Zimbabwe starts compensating white farmers 25 years after land seizures
Step is requirement for restructuring country’s debt, including new IMF programmeZimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to white former farm owners, 25 years after Robert Mugabe’s government began confiscating land.The government paid $3.1m (£2.3m) to a “first batch” of 378 farms, the ministry of finance said in a statement on […]
- View from Africa: how Kirsty Coventry will handle sport’s biggest job at the IOC
Incoming president owes her position to political support but is promising a collective and sustainable approachThe International Olympic Committee’s president-elect, Kirsty Coventry, did not initially have designs on a role in sports administration until she was thrust into it, essentially by politics.On 7 September 2018, Coventry found out, […]
- 'It is significant': Kirsty Coventry voted first female president of IOC – video
Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and first African in the committee's 131-year history to get the job. The former swimmer, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, won 49 of the 97 votes of the IOC membership in the first round of votingKirsty Coventry elected first female […]
- Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe routed in vote
Zimbabwean former swimmer won majority in first roundSebastian Coe is third; Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr secondThe Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry has become the first woman to lead the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year history after a stunning first-round knockout over a seven-strong field that included Britain’s Sebastian Coe.In […]
- ‘Disruptive, unfair and cruel’: jobs lost and treatment stopped as USAid freeze hits HIV care in Zimbabwe
Clinics have been forced to close as halt in funding impacts country’s donor-dependent health sectorChiedza Makura only learned she had been dismissed from her nursing job when a WhatsApp message came through on the evening of 28 January. The 37-year-old single mother of three worked as an HIV nurse at Zim-TTech, a private voluntary organisation […]
Aljazeera | News
- Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,150
These are the key events on day 1,150 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
- Is the US dollar at risk of a ‘confidence crisis’?
Fears about unpredictable policy are prompting investors to question their faith in the US dollar.
- Memphis beats Dallas to face top-seeded Oklahoma City in the NBA playoffs
Grizzlies beat the Mavericks 120-106 to set up a first-round NBA playoff series with top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder.
- Tunisian court hands opposition figures lengthy jail terms
Dozens of defendants found guilty of "conspiracy against state security" and given sentences of 13 to 66 years.
- Could an earthquake shift the balance in Myanmar’s civil war?
Aftershocks of Myanmar's devastating earthquake add new dimension to country's four-year-long civil war.
The Japan Times
- Nissan management shake-up plans reported as sharks circle
Nissan is considering a change in leadership following poor results and the failure of a proposed merger with Honda, according to a report citing unnamed sources.
- Japanese sake brewery to make foray into Indian market
Takahashi Shouten, based in the city of Yame in Fukuoka Prefecture, launched a subsidiary in India in February.
- Toyota eyes lunar rover powered by regenerative fuel-cell tech
Toyota has teamed up with JAXA since 2019 to develop the manned lunar rover — which it dubbed the Lunar Cruiser — that they hope can be put on the moon in 2029.
- British PM Rishi Sunak avoids wipeout in key local elections
By-elections were seen as an indicator of the two main parties' prospects at a time when voters are struggling with high inflation, strikes and rising mortgage rates.
- Extreme heat and weather conditions attributed to stagnant jet stream
It’s no coincidence that extreme heat is engulfing huge swaths of Asia, Europe and North America all at the same time.
Sky News | World News
- Robots race half-marathon against humans for first time, one falls over
Robots have raced against humans in a half-marathon for the first time.
- Trump: Putin not playing me - but I might give up on peace talks
Donald Trump has threatened to "take a pass" on attempts to secure a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, as he denied the Kremlin was playing him.
- Man wrongly deported to El Salvador 'traumatised' by mega-prison - as Supreme Court blocks new deportations
A man wrongly deported to El Salvador was "traumatised" by his time at a notorious mega-prison, a US senator has said, as the Supreme Court blocks new deportations of Venezuelan migrants.
- At least 148 people die after boat catches fire in Congo
The number of people found dead after a boat accident in Congo has risen to 148, officials have said.
- British man, 27, dies after avalanche at French Alps ski resort
A British man has died after an avalanche at a ski resort in the French Alps, local officials say.
American Thinker | Articles
- Man's Best Friend or Environmental Villains?
Photo Credit: CaninestThe Greens go to the dogs.
- Let’s (Not) Celebrate Psychology Week
Photo Credit:Free image, Pixabay license. PixabayWoke institutional capture has not spared the profession of psychiatry, and its doctors doesn’t deserve accolades.
- The Rioter Cell of the Democrat Party has been Activated
Photo Credit: Montecruz fotoDemocrat-led 'protests' are proof that the Trump administration is on the right course.
- Ayn Rand’s Case against Tariffs
Photo Credit:Atlas Shrugged at Rockefeller Center Siddhant Kumar via unsplashTariffs are a blunt instrument and a scolding. America’s innovators deserve better.
- Trade Deficits Are Worse than You Think
Photo Credit:Image: Sally V via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sally VNot in the quantity (though that is also quite bad!), but in the quality. Trade deficits hollow out and destroy a people.
The Christian Science Monitor | Politics
- JD Vance visits the Vatican for Easter after papal rebuke over Trump's migrant crackdown
U.S. Vice President JD Vance met with the Vatican’s No. 2 official after a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants.
- How Donald Trump is upending American culture
President Trump’s cultural agenda is reminiscent of a Stalin-esque playbook to some. Others say it’s a needed correction to “woke-ism.” Can he succeed in reshaping U.S. culture?
- Some decry Trump disruptions. These voters exult in them.
Just as President Trump’s vision for America has intensified in his second stint in Washington, so, too, has his strongest supporters’ admiration.
- Meet ‘the loud majority.’ College conservatives are silent no longer.
Some conservative student groups on college campuses say they’re seeing increased interest in their activities since President Donald Trump’s campaign and reelection.
- Markets got a tariff pause. But damage to global confidence in US could last.
President Trump’s 90-day pause on tariffs buoyed stocks. But the U.S. has come to look like a source of uncertainty more than order.