Heavy gunfire erupts near airport in Niger’s capital: Residents” Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) shows passengers queuing outside Diori Hamani international airport in Niamey –
Handout photograph released by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) shows passengers queuing outside Diori Hamani international airport in Niamey on Heavy Gunfire erupts near airport in Niger’s capital: Residents A burst of heavy gunfire and explosions erupted early Thursday near the international airport in Niger’s capital Niamey before halting within hours,... Read More
Iran Rounds Up Thousands In Mass Arrest Campaign After Crushing Unrest: Reuters
Iran Rounds Up Thousands In Mass Arrest Campaign After Crushing Unrest: Reuters Clerical rulers are under rising pressure as Trump threatens strikes to inspire protesters once more. Plainclothes Iranian security forces have rounded up thousands of people in a campaign of mass arrests and intimidation to deter further protests after crushing the bloodiest unrest since... Read More
Donald Trump says ‘very dangerous’ for UK to deal with China” Donald Trump said it was “very dangerous” for Britain to deal with China, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer continued his visit to Beijing.
The US president was reacting to agreements announced after Sir Keir met Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of a three-day trip aimed at resetting relations between the UK and China. The agreements are aimed at increasing business and investment between the two countries. “Well it’s very dangerous for them to do that,” Trump said... Read More
Venezuela opens its oil sector to private investors” Washington has put pressure on Caracas for access to its crude reserves since it seized then President Nicolas Maduro less than a month ago-
Venezuela opens its oil sector to private investors Washington has put pressure on Caracas for access to its crude reserves since it seized then President Nicolas Maduro less than a month ago. Years of underinvestment, corruption and mismanagement have dented oil exploration and production in Venezuela Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez on Thursday signed a... Read More
Pentagon chief tells Trump US military is prepared on Iran.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said on Thursday the US military will be prepared to carry out whatever President Donald Trump decides on Iran to ensure Tehran does not pursue nuclear weapons capability With a large US military force gathered in the region, Hegseth was asked by Trump at a cabinet meeting to comment on the... Read More
Trump says he asked Putin to stop bombing Kyiv for one week.
I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and the cities and town for a week during this extraordinary…it’s not just like cold…it’s extraordinary cold, record-setting cold over there too,” Trump said during his monthly Cabinet meeting at the White House. Trump said Putin agreed to his request and that Ukraine was “very... Read More
Polar bears getting “fatter and healthier” amid ice loss” .
Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and healthier since the early 1990s, all while sea ice has steadily declined due to climate change Polar bears rely on sea ice as a platform from which to hunt the seals that they rely on for blubber-rich... Read More
EU adds Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to ‘terrorist list'”
The European Union has added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its terrorist list in response to Tehran’s deadly crackdown on protesters in recent weeks. “Repression cannot go unanswered,” the bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said, adding the move will put the IRGC – a major military, economic and political force in Iran –... Read More
A report into disgraced former Great Ormond Street Hospital surgeon Yaser Jabbar has found that 94 children were harmed during the care he provided.
Great Ormond Street Hospital apologises for surgeon’s harmThe Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) released a report on Thursday into the actions of the former orthopaedic surgeon who treated hundreds of children over five years.The review found that 98 patients (12.4%) experienced some level of harm, and 94 of these cases were linked specifically... Read More
Trump weighs major new strike on Iran as nuclear discussions show no progress. -CNN
President Donald Trump is weighing a major new strike on Iran after preliminary discussions between Washington and Tehran over limiting the country’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production failed to make progress, according to people familiar with the matter Trump’s latest threats were met with indignation by Tehran, which vowed an immediate response to any... Read More