International

"It's not just infrastructure that's been hit, it's really the people's ability to recover and rebuild their lives."Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Recent uncertainty seems to have prompted Gulf Cooperation Council members to consider new options for their defence.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in OregonJosé Bertin Cruz-Estrada was responding to a wildfire in Washington state on 27 August when four unmarked vehicles drove up to his crew’s remote location in a national forest.Cruz-Estrada, part of a team of 20 Oregon-based firefighters, had spent a week hiking through dense terrain, […]

Independent leftwing politician inaugurated as president after landslide election winYou can watch the live stream of the Irish presidential inauguration here:Irish president-elect Catherine Connolly has just arrived at the Dublin Castle for her presidential inauguration. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

Outgoing director general says freedom of press under pressure and that he sees ‘weaponisation’Here is a round-up of what various lawyers and commentators have been saying about Donald Trump’s legal case against the BBC.Joshua Rozenberg, the legal commentator and a former BBC journalist, has said in a post on his A Lawyer Writes Substack that the corporation should settle. He explains:Given what Brito is claiming, the lawyer is unlikely to […]

Armed men in Mali have abducted and publicly executed a TikTok influencer who posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, local authorities have said.Source: feeds.skynews.comRead full article

US president has said he will bring proceedings if the documentary containing an edited speech from 6 January 2021 is not retractedDonald Trump has grabbed the headlines after threatening to sue the BBC for $1bn (£760m) for what the corporation has accepted was a misleading edit of his speech on 6 January 2021 during the Capitol Hill insurrection. Here the Guardian examines the US president’s potential path to bringing and […]