US secretary of state flies into Tel Aviv amid signals that a breakthrough may not be as close as had been suggested The US secretary of state has arrived in Israel for 11th-hour talks aimed at shoring up a deal for a lasting ceasefire in the war in Gaza, amid signals from Israeli and Hamas officials that…
Republican senator urges Trump to focus on policy issues instead of making personal attacks against Harris The Republican senator and Donald Trump loyalist Lindsey Graham has warned that Trump is in danger of losing the US presidential election if he continues to talk about Kamala Harris’s race and make other personal attacks instead of focusing on policy…
Nothing is stopping child sexual abuse imagery spreading on WhatsApp, a safety group has warned. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is calling on Meta, which owns WhatsApp, to do more to protect children and put mechanisms in place. A WhatsApp spokesperson said the app’s users had the “ability to report directly to WhatsApp so we…
Thailand’s parliament has picked Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of billionaire tycoon and former leader Thaksin, as prime minister. At 37, she will be the country’s youngest PM and the second woman in the post, after her aunt Yingluck. Her selection comes just two days after former PM Srettha Thavisin was dismissed by a constitutional court….
Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk advanced a few kilometres further today, according to its army chief, though Moscow claims to have repelled attacks in numerous areas and has dug defensive trenches in order to slow Ukraine’s progress. The aim of the attack on Kursk was to force Russia to the negotiating table for peace talks, an…
A pro-Kremlin Telegram channel has reported that a bridge over the Seym River at Glushkovo, in the Kursk region, has collapsed, showing images of the bridge and quoting an adviser to the acting governor of the region. We have looked for previous versions of these images online and believe they must have been first posted…
