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- Advocacy Group Calls For US Probe On Non-English Speaking Migrant Truck Drivers After Deadly Austin Crash
Advocacy Group Calls For US Probe On Non-English Speaking Migrant Truck Drivers After Deadly Austin Crash Local police in Austin, Texas, have arrested truck driver Solomun Weldekeal Araya, 37, in connection with the horrific 19-vehicle crash that left five people dead and 12 injured. […]
- Cooking Food Generates As Much Ozone Volatile Organic Compounds As Driving, NOAA Research Finds
Cooking Food Generates As Much Ozone Volatile Organic Compounds As Driving, NOAA Research Finds First, it was no stoves. Next it could be no cooking at all. All for the climate. At least that's what it appears if you follow the logic of California...which we can't recommend. That's because cooking […]
- UAE Lobbying Trump White House To Reject Arab League Gaza Plan
UAE Lobbying Trump White House To Reject Arab League Gaza Plan Via Middle East Eye The UAE is lobbying the Trump administration to torpedo a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip that Egypt drafted and which has been endorsed by the Arab League, US and Egyptian officials told Middle East Eye. The split […]
- New Romania Poll: Nationalist Likely To Win First Round, Centrist Could Take Run-Off
New Romania Poll: Nationalist Likely To Win First Round, Centrist Could Take Run-Off The first major poll of Romanians' preferences in the upcoming "do-over" presidential election points to a nationalist candidate coming out ahead in the first round, but a centrist winning the run-off that's likely if no […]
- ECB Prepping The Ground For Digital Euro Launch
ECB Prepping The Ground For Digital Euro Launch Authored by Efrat Fenigson via BitcoinMagazine.com, The European Central Bank (ECB) is laying the groundwork for the probable launch of its wholesale and retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), the Digital Euro. Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, […]
Independent | UK News
- Benefits cuts – live: Million to miss out on PIP as Starmer defends reforms ‘plunging families into crisis’
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall unveiled plans on Tuesday to slash welfare bill by £5bn in benefits overhaul
- Owners of tanker involved in North Sea collision praise crew for their “bravery”
The Marine Accidental Investigation Branch is trying to establish the cause of the explosive collision
- Minister accuses Labour left of ‘defending Tory system’ after benefits cuts
Hitting back at left-wing Labour critics of the government, Torsten Bell accused them of ‘defending a Tory system’
- Children watching Andrew Tate a ‘red flag’, former terror investigator warns
Philip Grindell said he worries about loners who obsess over the Tate brothers as much as any loyalist to far-right or Islamic extremism
- Man admits murdering ‘beautiful caring’ university lecturer in Plymouth
Paul Antony Butler pleaded guilty to murdering Claire Chick during an incident in Plymouth in January
The Straits Times | World News
National Interest | News
The Guardian | World News
- ‘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 […]
- Peter Fraenkel obituary
My friend and former work colleague Peter Fraenkel, who has died aged 98, was a greatly admired radio broadcaster. He began his career in Africa before moving to the BBC in London, where he was instrumental in shaping the corporation’s broadcasts to Greece and eastern Europe.Starting out in the 1950s at the Central African Broadcasting Service, […]
- Africa has no shortage of celebrated writers – so why is it so hard for African readers to get hold of their books?
Across the continent books can be expensive and libraries scarce. But growing numbers of tech innovators and independent publishers are working to make African literature available and affordableTsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, a novel about growing up in colonial Zimbabwe, is one of the most important works of 20th-century African […]
- The Guardian view on capital punishment: an upsurge in executions should concern us all | Editorial
The vast majority of countries have outlawed the death penalty. Yet the annual toll is growing – and Donald Trump wants to increase its useThe good news: Zimbabwe has just banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital punishment’s return were a state of emergency to be declared, the […]
- Women behind the lens: six of the most striking images from 2024
Our favourite photographs from around the world taken by women and capturing moments of contemplation, celebration and imagination Continue reading...
Aljazeera | News
- Turkiye police detain Erdogan rival Imamoglu in corruption, terror probe
CHP calls Imamoglu's detention 'coup' as the mayor vows to challenge diploma invalidation, barring him from presidency.
- Boxing champion Imane Khelif targets second Olympic gold at LA 2028 Games
Algerian gold medallist says she has 'nothing to hide' and vows to defend her title at the 2028 Summer Games in the US.
- Israel continues air strikes on Gaza, killing 14 Palestinians overnight
Gaza residents face devastating strikes, food shortages, and electricity cuts amid continued Israeli military offensive.
- ‘I nearly died’: Taba, the tobacco drug Gambian women share in secret
Though not illegal, doctors and activists warn about the dangers of the intravaginal use of the popular drug.
- Djokovic-led tennis players’ union files lawsuit against professional tours
The PTPA accuses the ATP, WTA, ITF and the ITIA of exploiting tennis players and jeopardising their health and safety.
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
- Fresh strikes in Gaza with at least 14 killed - as Israel army targets Hamas military site
The Israeli army said it has attacked a Hamas military site from which the militant group planned to launch strikes into Israel - a day after hundreds were killed by fresh attacks on Gaza.
- 'ISIS is coming back - we will behead you': The detention camps packed with the radicalised children of terror group
The Kurdish armoured vehicle we're in is being peppered by stones and rocks. But this a good day.
- Death row inmate in US executed using nitrogen gas after Supreme Court appeal fails
An inmate in Louisiana has been executed using nitrogen gas - becoming only the fifth person in the US to die through this method.
- 'Russia gave nothing' and 'Kyiv will choke': Our correspondents react to Trump-Putin call
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on Tuesday for at least 90 minutes.
- Putin agrees to partial ceasefire in Ukraine after Trump call
Vladimir Putin has agreed to an immediate 30-day pause in strikes on energy infrastructure in Ukraine during a lengthy phone call with Donald Trump.
American Thinker | Articles
- The Founders Provided Remedies for a Runaway Judiciary
Photo Credit: Udo J. Keppler, LoCWhat the country is witnessing is the culmination of many decades of ever-expanding judicial activism and the cowardice of the Congress to exert its prerogative to rein in this runaway usurpation of political power.
- How Science Lies
Photo Credit: RamaThe differences in perception of science by conservatives and leftists is fascinating.
- Beware the Isolationists
Photo Credit: JadejanandrajaIsolationism, the shallow pretension America can safely cower behind its borders, is dangerously naive.
- Trump’s Humanitarian Calculus
Photo Credit: AISure, President Trump doesn’t gush femininely about how his heart breaks over the poor, sweet victims of war and terrorism, but his policies are driven by humanitarianism.
- Hornets’ Nest: Hegseth Fires the JAGs
Photo Credit:Image: Pete Hegseth. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Gage SkidmoreAn attorney must have the confidence and trust of the client. The military attorneys who got the boot had lost both.
The Christian Science Monitor | Politics
- Debate over transgender rights grows more fraught in new Trump era
Actions by the Trump administration have been pushing back on transgender inclusion, amid sharp public divides and emotional debates over things like women’s sports and care for children.
- ‘Move fast and break things?’ Judges are telling Trump to put them back together.
As President Trump implements his agenda at lightning speed, courts see mixed results as they demand that some actions be rolled back until lawsuits are heard.
- Why a top progressive group says Chuck Schumer should resign from leadership
Ezra Levin, the co-founder of the grassroots progressive organization Indivisible, talks to the Monitor about why the Democratic base thinks Sen. Chuck Schumer needs to go, what’s driving the movement, and where things go from here.
- Trump claims sweeping power to deport migrants – as legal fight escalates
Confusion over the timing of a deportation operation to El Salvador has led to questions about whether the administration defied a judge’s order, in removing people the White House says are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
- Judge bars Trump from using wartime authority to carry out mass deportations
After a flurry of litigation, a federal judge on Saturday stalled the Trump administration's plan to carry out mass deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, a sweeping 18th century law that expands the president's powers. The president had invoked the law just hours earlier, describing the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as an invading force.