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‘I told my son to keep strong – let’s wait for dad’: Thailand hopes for return of its last Hamas hostage
Narissara Jantasang’s nine-year-old son was brimming with excitement as he watched footage of Thai hostages being released from Gaza on Thursday. Then he noticed his mother had started to cry. “He asked me: ‘what’s going on, Mom?’” Narissara says. “He realised his dad was not one of those released.”
Five …
Samoa’s prime minister criticises RFK Jr’s vaccine views after deadly measles outbreak
Samoa’s prime minister, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa, has criticised Robert F Kennedy Jr’s views and the spread of vaccine misinformation related to the deadly 2019 measles outbreak that claimed the lives of at least 83 people, mostly babies in her country.
It comes as Kennedy, who is president Donald Trump’s pick …
Loners, misfits and the shadow of Southport | Letters
Thursday briefing: Search underway after catastrophic mid-air collision over Potomac river
Good morning. Late last night near Washington DC, a jet carrying 64 people collided with a US army helicopter above the Potomac river. A frantic rescue operation got underway quickly and was still continuing a few minutes ago, with the precise number of fatalities unclear but multiple bodies seen being …
Demining to democracy: how Trump’s foreign aid freeze will affect south-east Asia
halting US foreign aid funding flows
for 90 days for review has caused global confusion and chaos.In south-east Asia, such funding provides humanitarian assistance to communities that are among the most vulnerable in the world to natural disasters, as well as support for …
‘We will keep protesting’: Druze minority demands a voice in new Syria
Suwayda is well-equipped for protests. The central square of the city, home to one of Syria’s larger minority communities, hosts the crowds of weekly – or sometimes even daily – demonstrators calling for the representation and public services they have demanded for years.
Long before the fall last month of …
Olaf Scholz attacks rival’s ‘unforgivable mistake’ as AfD backs migration plan
The leader of Germany’s conservative opposition has been backed in his controversial plans to restrict migration by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, in what Olaf Scholz branded “an unforgivable mistake.”
Friedrich Merz was accused by Scholz’s minority government of breaking a longstanding political firewall against the far-right populists. He …
The west is complicit in the killing of children in Gaza | Letters
New York judge turns down Harvey Weinstein plea to move up retrial date
A judge on Wednesday set a 15 April trial date for Harvey Weinstein’s retrial, as the disgraced movie mogul pleaded in court to move the trial date sooner citing health conditions.
Weinstein appeared in court in New York on Wednesday morning, seated in a wheelchair. He addressed the court and …
Groups helping Americans find abortion pills report Instagram ‘shadow-banning’
Over the last week, the accounts of some major organizations that help Americans find abortion pills had their Instagram posts censored, were removed or became difficult to find through searching – a practice known as “shadow-banning”.
Censorship of abortion-related content on social media is a longstanding issue. In the days …