12 h. ago Starving Palestinians fear being shot dead for a bag of lentils as Gaza aid points close

Aid workers in both the south and north of Gaza tell Tom Watling that the GHF is not equipped to deal with the dire humanitarian situation in the enclave

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16 h. ago London conference: ‘Stop funding the Zionist killing machine’ and end complicity in Gaza genocide

London conference: ‘Stop funding the Zionist killing machine’ and end complicity in Gaza genocide  Middle East Monitor

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17 h. ago Australian engineer freed on bail after four years in Iraqi prison

Robert Pether remains barred from leaving Iraq

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18 h. 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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40 h. ago Bikes, the Bean and Black Panthers in Chicago: Wembley to Soweto initiative 2025

After the huge success of projects across Europe, southern Africa, South America, the Middle East and the UK, the Wembley to Soweto Foundation started its US rollout in 2022. Focusing on young people affected by gangs, the charity uses photography as a catalyst to improve participants’ self-esteem and confidence and teach life skills to help disadvantaged youth into employment and tertiary educationThe backdrop of sport has been a constant in the Wembley to Soweto Foundation’s projects, and the foundation has encouraged the young photographers to reflect how their communities are shaped by football, rugby, athletics, cricket, boxing and the like.Since the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa, the charity has worked alongside the Premier League, the FA, the Olympic Games, the Cricket World Cup, the RFU and now the MLS in North America. Ultimately the US cohorts will be given the opportunity to photograph at the US Soccer World Cup in 2026 and the 2028 LA Olympics.Quiet Reflection – Th...

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42 h. ago How airlines are managing the risk of missile threats and airspace closures

With airspace closures around Russia and Ukraine, throughout the Middle East and in parts of Africa, airlines are left with fewer options

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43 h. ago Dr Martens sees profits slide but on track for return to growth

The footwear group reported pre-tax profits of £8.8 million for the year to March 30, down from £93 million the previous year.

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46 h. ago Why is defence such a hard sell? The same reason Starmer is struggling in the polls | Martin Kettle

Decades of failures have left liberal democratic governments unable to command public confidence when it really mattersDefence reviews and foreign policy resets seem to turn up almost as often as the Sussexes’ lifestyle brand relaunches these days. Labour’s strategic defence review this week comes less than two years after the Conservatives’ hardly less detailed defence white paper in July 2023, which in turn was a “refresh” of Boris Johnson’s ambitious integrated review of defence and foreign policy of March 2021. By this measure, it must be doubtful if, come the 2030s, analysts will look back on Keir Starmer and John Healey’s review and say it broke the mould.The Labour government was entitled to try to put its own stamp on defence policy, of course, and its review team of George Robertson, Richard Barrons and Fiona Hill did a good, reasonably independent job. Yet this 2020s pattern of repeated strategic adaptation and refocus feels like the new normal now. It is also true that gr...

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46 h. ago ‘We’re here to disturb the algorithm’ – inside Dubai’s surprising art scene

Can Dubai’s art week reveal the true heart of the city beyond the glitz? Sara Darling investigates

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54 h. ago Trump names nominees to take over commands in the Middle East and Africa

President Donald Trump is nominating Vice Adm. Brad Cooper to take over as the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East

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58 h. ago Ronnie O’Sullivan ‘finally’ confirms next career move amid plans to quit the UK

Snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan has dropped another major announcement following his revelation that he planned to quit the UK for the Middle East, where he has his own academy

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60 h. ago Germany on tenterhooks for Merz’s first official meeting with Trump

Two leaders are on first-name terms after phone chats but German chancellor knows he may have to tread fine lineGermany’s new conservative leader, Friedrich Merz, is due in Washington on Thursday for his first official meeting with Donald Trump, putting political Berlin on tenterhooks like no other transatlantic encounter in living memory.Discussions between the German chancellor and the US president will focus on Ukraine, the Middle East and trade policies. How well or badly the talks go – during a small group meeting, followed by a lunch and then, perhaps most nailbitingly, a press conference in the Oval Office – may shape relations for decades to come, analysts say. Continue reading...

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61 h. ago Palestinian paramedic who survived Israeli attack that killed 15 says soldiers shot colleagues calling for help

Asaad al-Nasasra was one of two first responders who survived an attack by Israeli soldiers on a convoy of emergency vehicles

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61 h. ago Israel suggests it will block Greta Thunberg’s aid ship from reaching Gaza

The Madleen set sail from Italy aiming to deliver a ‘symbolic’ amount of aid to the enclave

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64 h. ago Gaza ‘worse than hell on earth’ Red Cross boss warns as Israel closes aid centre

At least 58 Palestinians have reportedly been killed near the four Gaza Humanitarian Foundation centres

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2 d. ago 'I organise holidays in world's most extreme places from volcanoes to war zones'

James Wilcox and his small expert team at Untamed Borders specialise in taking group of tourists to some of the most interesting and hard to reach areas on the Planet

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3 d. ago At least 27 Palestinians killed in third day of Israeli gunfire near Gaza aid centre

UN demands investigation and says attacks on hungry civilians seeking aid are ‘unconscionable’

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3 d. ago Anthrax outbreak: One dead and three hospitalised as WHO alerted

If people don't get proper treatment, all types of anthrax have the potential to spread through the body and cause death

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3 d. ago At least 27 Palestinians reported killed in third day of Israeli gunfire near Gaza aid centre

Israeli military says it fired warning shots on Monday towards ‘several suspects who advanced toward the troops and posed a threat to them’

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3 d. ago Israel military says it fired ‘warning shots’ after 27 Palestinians killed near Gaza aid centre

Israeli military says it fired warning shots towards ‘several suspects who advanced toward the troops and posed a threat to them’

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