An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 has struck Myanmar, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, causing hundreds of people to pour out of swaying buildings in Bangkok, the capital of neighbouring Thailand 1,400km away. USGS said the quake on Friday was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the…
The Olympic skier Berkin Usta and his father have died in a fire at a shut-down ski resort in Turkey. Berkin, 24, and his father, Yahya, 57, were killed after a blaze broke out on Thursday at the Kervansaray hotel in the country’s north-west. Berkin represented Turkey at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, finishing 43rd…
As Donald Trump and his top officials scrabble to respond to the Signal leak scandal, Jonathan Freedland and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser discuss the fallout of this security breach, and why the US president is attacking the media instead of the people who let a journalist read potentially classified material Source: www.theguardian.com
The government has put improving the NHS at the heart of its plans, but will it be able to deliver on its promises? And how long could it take to turn the health service around? Pippa Crerar asked health secretary Wes Streeting at a special Guardian Live event. In a wide-ranging discussion, he also took…
The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has met with the Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos, in Manila saying the two countries must stand “shoulder to shoulder” in the face of the threat represented by China. Hegseth’s meeting at the presidential palace comes as he opens a tour of Pacific allies that risks being overshadowed by a…
Earlier this month, No Other Land won the Oscar for best documentary feature. The film chronicles the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta as it resists being driven off its land by settler violence and the demolitions of the Israeli military. The film’s two protagonists, Palestinian film-maker Basel Adra and Israeli film-maker Yuval Abraham, gave…
Dutton says election is ‘a choice about who can better manage our economy’ Peter Dutton is now responding to the election call, out of Brisbane. He says the election is “a choice about who can better manage our economy”. He’s focused on what the Coalition believes are Labor’s weakest points – the failed referendum for…
A man who was riding an e-bike in Sydney has been killed when a police car attempted to pull him over. A so-called “single unit” acting sergeant attempted to pull over the 48-year-old man on Allen Street in Waterloo at about 3am on Friday, the New South Wales police assistant commissioner Peter McKenna told reporters.…
Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order on Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology”. The president said there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite US history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven…
The Israeli director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has condemned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its response to a violent attack on his Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal, who was beaten by Israeli settlers and detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank on Monday. Earlier this week, Israeli journalist…
