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Viral finger-clicker suspended as cricket storm remains in global spotlight
Saltburn's amateur cricketer at centre of cheating allegations that grabbed global headlines is suspended by club.
Russia strikes Ukrainian cities in major attack, Poland’s airspace violated
Russia pounded Ukraine with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, killing eight people in overnight attacks on Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, decrying shortages of air defence supplies and urging allies to help. Russia launched more than 70 missiles and about 280 drones, Zelensky said in a statement on the Telegram app. The capital Kyiv and the western region of Lviv on Ukraine’...
Russia strikes Ukrainian cities, Poland scrambles fighter jets
Russian air strikes killed at least eight people in Ukraine on Thursday, including one in Kyiv, in attacks extending as far as the western city of Lviv, forcing neighbouring Poland to scramble fighter jets to secure its airspace. The attacks come as President Volodymyr Zelensky returns from the United States, where he said President Donald Trump agreed to give Ukraine licences for Patriot missile...
Poland scrambles fighter jets as Russia strikes cities across Ukraine
Russian air strikes killed at least 13 in Ukraine on Thursday, including one in Kyiv, in attacks extending as far as the western city of Lviv, forcing neighbouring Poland to scramble fighter jets to secure its airspace. The attacks come as President Volodymyr Zelensky returns from the United States, where he said President Donald Trump agreed to give Ukraine licences for Patriot missiles. Air rai...
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【動画】日本製紙 熊本 八代工場 捜索映像を公開 総務省消防庁
総務省消防庁は、熊本県八代市の「日本製紙」八代工場での捜索活動の様子を公開しました。撮影されたのは30日午前で、▽10人ほどの消防隊員たちが話し合いをしているような様子や、▽壁や天井が崩れた場所で、コンクリート片を手で取り除き、工具を使って鉄骨のようなものを切断する様子が確認できます。八代工場では、緊急消防援助隊が捜索活動を行っていて、映像には、岡山市や宮崎県都城市の消防隊が活動する様子が映っています。
Middle East crisis live: Jordan says it foiled Iranian missile attack as US launches ‘heavy’ strikes on Iran after pause
Jordanian military says it intercepted five missiles targeting the kingdom after US military says it hit dozens of Revolutionary Guard targets on ThursdayUS launches fresh strikes on Iran after days-long pause, amid fears the war is wideningA liquefied natural gas tanker controlled by QatarEnergy exited the strait of Hormuz overnight – the first such vessel visible on ship-tracking data to leave...
What happens to your private messages under ‘Chat Control’?
Your private message may remain encrypted and unreadable to the platform carrying it, or be scanned by automated tools before reaching its recipient. This divide sits at the heart of the EU’s Chat Control debate and combating child exploitation online without undermining private communication.
War and shortages push Gaza hospitals to breaking point
Gaza’s collapsing health system leaves dialysis patients, amputees and trauma survivors without vital care.
'Tell me, South': Life in Lebanon explored through voices, photographs and memories
While south Lebanon is still reeling from a war that has left deep scars on people and places, a new exhibition "Tell me, South" explores local emotions and feelings through people's images, memories and letters.
Judge orders Amy Winehouse’s father to pay nearly £1m to her friends
Mitch Winehouse ‘knowingly and deliberately’ made unfounded allegations against Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourlay, judge saysThe father of British music sensation Amy Winehouse has been ordered to pay £950,000 (US$1.26m, A$1.82m) to his late daughter’s friends, who he unsuccessfully sued for auctioning the singer’s clothes and other items.Mitch Winehouse earlier this year lost a case in the high co...
Europe's heatwaves are fuelling infectious diseases, health agency warns
As summers are getting longer and hotter, health experts warn that higher temperatures are creating the perfect conditions for infectious diseases to spread across Europe.
NSW to send paramedics not police to some mental health emergencies after multiple deaths
Mental health experts to triage triple zero calls, but not all of the changes will be implemented 24/7 or statewideNew South Wales will send specialist nurses rather than police to some mental health emergencies after the state announced long-fought-for reform in the wake of multiple deaths at the hands of police.Rose Jackson and Yasmin Catley, the mental health and police ministers, announced on ...
‘Warring kingdoms’: cofounder of religious Reformers compares NSW Liberal party factionalism to Braveheart
Robert Assaf tells Icac that Angus Taylor wasn’t ‘that involved’ but the federal opposition leader ‘definitely wasn’t opposed’ to work of conservative groupA member of a group of young conservative Liberal power brokers being investigated for allegedly soliciting illegal donations has compared their factional work to Mel Gibson’s Braveheart – and said they “didn’t think the law applied to us” when...
’Magical material’: How Europe’s drought-struck islands could soon harvest water from dry air
Europe’s tourist islands are facing severe water stress. Is tech that harvests water from dry air a solution?
UK government reviews why police ceding criminal cases to US military
Exclusive: ministers and police chiefs examining how cases involving US military personnel on UK soil are handled after Guardian revelationsThe UK government and police chiefs are reviewing the process through which US military personnel accused of committing serious crimes on UK soil are avoiding the British justice system.The effort, involving multiple government departments, is examining why UK...
‘Lenin was an enemy of humanity’: Why Kyiv wants to put Cossack chief statue in place of Soviet leader
Removal of Soviet-era statues sped up when Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and since Putin’s 2022 invasion has moved at pace as Ukrainians question their identitySince 2013 the plinth at the bottom of Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in Kyiv has been eerily empty. The scruffy monument is daubed in white paint and graffiti. Someone has stuck a Ukrainian trident where Lenin once stood, gazing down during th...
A quarter of young Africans believe USAID cuts could be positive, survey finds
Losing funds should force leaders to confront their own challenges, they said, while many voiced concerns over increasing foreign influence A quarter of young Africans believe aid cuts by the US could have a positive impact, saying that losing foreign money will force leaders to confront and solve their own challenges, according to a new survey.In Ghana and Nigeria, almost half (41% and 40% respec...
Will the ‘coolcation’ travel trend change the geography of international tourism?
Cooler summer holidays are proving popular as peak heat sways travellers’ choices beyond the Mediterranean. Experts weigh in on whether this seasonal trend might last.
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熊本地震 災害関連調査中を含め死者30人に 高市首相
高市総理大臣は政府の「非常災害対策本部」で、今回の地震で30日午後0時半時点で、災害との関連を調査している人も含めて、死亡した人が30人にのぼっていると明らかにしました。
Getting 'carried away' again? Musk's million-dollar plan to rescue Trump in mid-elections
Elon Musk is reviving his political action committee, America PAC, for the 2026 elections. This group previously spent over $260 million to support Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. America PAC will now focus on increasing Republican voter turnout through various outreach methods. The organization plans to collaborate with other Republican groups to boost their efforts. Musk's involvement signals a si...
US launches ‘powerful’ strikes on Iran after Jordan attack
The US has bombed multiple cities across southern Iran in what Central Command described as a ‘heavy wave of strikes’.
US Senate delays vote on Todd Blanche''s attorney general nomination demanding clarity on Trump's IRS lawsuit
The US Department of Justice said in a statement after the vote was postponed that it remains ready to work productively with senators Cornyn and Tillis to advance Blanche’s confirmation.
Hong Kong official slams ‘bias against China’ after new article by Stephen Roach
A senior Hong Kong finance official has hit back at criticism of the city’s prospects as “bias against China”, following a recent commentary by a prominent US economist who asserted that “the Hong Kong of old is over”. The government’s rebuttal did not directly name any specific critic but was published after American economist Stephen Roach wrote an opinion article saying Hong Kong had become a m...
Fauci’s refusals put spotlight on ‘pleading the Fifth’ right in US
It was important enough to the framers of the US Constitution to be included in the first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights – that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself”. Today, that protection – famously known as “pleading the Fifth” – remains one of the most visible and politically charged safeguards in American law. It has seeped into the cul...
Fauci’s silence puts fresh spotlight on ‘pleading the Fifth’ right in US
It was important enough to the framers of the US Constitution to be included in the first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights – that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself”. Today, that protection – famously known as “pleading the Fifth” – remains one of the most visible and politically charged safeguards in American law. It has seeped into the cul...
熊本地震で18人死亡 6人心肺停止 1人安否不明 県発表
熊本県は、ショッピングセンター「イオンモール熊本」で救助中だった1人の死亡が確認されたと発表しました。県によりますと、これで今回の地震で県内ではあわせて18人が死亡し、6人が心肺停止、少なくとも1人が安否不明となっているということです。
Death toll in Japan earthquake rises to 28 as aftershock and heat complicate rescue efforts
Soldiers and emergency workers are searching a badly damaged shopping mall, paper mill and collapsed houses for survivorsThe death toll from the major earthquake that hit Japan on Tuesday rose to 28 as the search for trapped survivors inside a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses in the country’s south-west continued.The magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck the Kumamoto prefecture on t...