47 h. ago ‘Let down by a world that claims to be humane but does nothing’: Palestinians speak out as Israeli bulldozers raze West Bank villages

Masafer Yatta, a collection of villages in the West Bank, has long been a target of forced evictions and settler attacks. After the month of May saw a village almost entirely wiped out and the announcement of 22 new Israeli settlements, Palestinians are losing hope, Alex Croft reports

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3 d. ago ‘Send her home’: Son of Irish woman, 70, in Israeli detention pleads for her release

Exclusive: Activist Deirdre Murphy, who has a long-term health condition, was arrested last week in a West Bank village demolished by Israeli bulldozers

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5 d. ago Humans can 'cheat death' to live forever in just a few years top Google scientist claims

Some of the world's most respected visionaries say we're just years away from cracking the code to human immortality - and one claims the first immortal human may already be alive today

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6 d. ago Israeli soldiers bar media from visiting West Bank villages on tour organized by Oscar winners

Israeli soldiers have barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organized by the directors of Oscar-winning movie “No Other Land."

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7 d. ago Watch: Humanoid robot housekeeper set to transform hotel industry, say tech company

A Chinese tech company has unveiled a humanoid cleaning robot it claims has the potential to transform the hospitality industry.

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1 week ago What is ecocide and could it become a crime under international law?

Classing grievous acts of environmental harm as crimes against peace may hold states and corporations to accountFrom the legend of the Romans’ salting of the fields of Carthage, to Iraq’s burning of Kuwait’s oilfields, to Israel’s bulldozing of Palestinian olive groves, wanton acts of environmental destruction have long been a military tactic.But while armies and their leaders have been held to account for the human victims of their violence, the natural world has been a silent victim, often overlooked and disregarded, even when its destruction has had a material impact on the lives of the people it supports. Continue reading...

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1 week ago RFK Jr wants to ban government scientists from publishing in top journals and instead create a MAGA

Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary claims world-renowned medical journals are ‘corrupt’

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2 w. ago AI has started ignoring human instruction and refuses to turn off, researchers claim

The o3 model, developed by OpenAI has been described as the 'smartest and most capable to date', and in new tests was found to avoid its automatic shutdown according to researchers.

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2 w. ago What happened to Axel Rudakubana's family: They fled their home the day after the Southport killings. Now SARAH RAINEY reveals truth about their new lives in hiding

Nearly ten months have passed since the Rudakubana family left the small semi in Bank, a village outside Southport, which had been their home for seven years.

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2 w. ago AP PHOTOS: Palestinians report Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank

Palestinians in the village of Bruqin in the northern West Bank said that Israeli settlers attacked them, burning cars and damaging houses.

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2 w. ago Violent Israeli settlers under UK sanctions join illegal West Bank outpost

Exclusive: Neria Ben Pazi and Zohar Sabah witnessed visiting base set up to drive Palestinians from homes• Middle East crisis live – latest updatesTwo violent Israeli settlers on whom sanctions were imposed by the UK government this week have joined a campaign to drive Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank village of Mughayyir al-Deir.Neria Ben Pazi’s organisation, Neria’s Farm, had sanctions imposed by London on Tuesday, as the UK suspended negotiations on a new free-trade deal with Israel over its refusal to allow aid into Gaza and cabinet ministers’ calls to “purify Gaza” by expelling Palestinians. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘That damned night’: Porticello awaits the truth about Bayesian sinking

The Sicilian fishing village is watching the salvage of Mike Lynch’s superyacht for answers to the causes of the tragedy Some say that the late tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht, Bayesian, sank because it was vulnerable to high winds that drove the vessel past its point of stability. Others insist that a chain of human errors led to the incident that claimed seven lives, including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah.But in the quiet Sicilian fishing village of Porticello – where on 19 August 2024 the Bayesian was caught shortly before dawn in a violent storm while anchored off coast – everyone knows the truth lies 50 metres below the surface, in the wreckage of a yacht that divers, floating cranes and underwater drones are still struggling to bring back from the depths of the ocean. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Dogs and monkeys caged in sick brothels have vocal cords cut so they can't scream

One woman opened up about animal rights issues in her local community, and claimed that animals are used in brothels with humans mutilating them to cover up their crimes

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3 w. ago Chimps set up forest hospital to heal each other's wounds as they know 'first aid'

Chimpanzees are more like humans than originally thought, claim scientists, who captured footage of the primates making a makeshift forest hospital to treat wounds

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3 w. ago Joe Rogan makes wild claim about ancient race of giant humans living on Earth

On an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast with TikTok star Cody Tucker, Rogan brought up the theory that there was once an ancient race of giant humans living on Earth.

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