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After 44 years, it's a bittersweet end for the tight-knit family behind the Melbourne institution Afghan Gallery — and the community it has warmly embraced.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Israel's US-backed Gaza aid plan may lead to second Nakba, UN agency chief warns The head of Unrwa has sharply criticised Israel’s plan for aid delivery in Gaza, saying it violates core humanitarian principles and is designed to serve military goals rather than genuine relief efforts. “It is not possible for a humanitarian organisation, which truly respects the basic humanitarian principles, to adhere to such a scheme,...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:About 6 per cent of sports science and sports medicine research is female-specific — the Australian Institute of Sport is determined to change that to help athletes around the world perform at their peak.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:The Trump administration’s efforts to block international students from Harvard could come at a hefty price — and not just for the university. Harvard students are top innovators in the country, with foreign-born alumni leading dozens of successful startups. Besides their business contributions, international students more broadly make up a sizeable portion of...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:When pop star Taylor Swift announced in 2019 that she was re-recording her previous works, musician Pete Murray was shown a way forward to reclaim his legacy.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” slimly passed the House on Thursday morning after lawmakers wrestled with the legislation during an all-night session. The GOP spending bill now rests before a weary upper chamber as Medicaid reforms and deficit expansion remain concerns for Senate Republicans. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has urged his colleagues not to...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Former Israeli captive says army air strikes in Gaza put her in danger Naama Levy, one of five Israeli female soldiers freed during the January ceasefire, told a crowd in Tel Aviv that Israeli air strikes terrified her far more than anything else during her captivity in Gaza. “They come by surprise,” she said, describing the strikes. “First you hear a whistle, pray it doesn’t fall on you, and then — the booms, a noise...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) pressed Senate Republicans to advance President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which the House passed earlier this week. Gingrich said that GOP senators have “every right” to formulate their version of the president’s mega bill, but if they care about the United States economy and their constituents, they will eventually vote...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Pollution damage to the ‘oldest outdoor art gallery on Earth’ is among the concerns as Woodside seeks to extend the life of a huge liquified natural gas projectGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGet Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email The new environment minister, Murray Watt, says he plans to decide on whether Australia’s biggest-emitting gas...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Australia needs to modernise and humanise its thinking around the concept of propertyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn my dream, I’m building something out of stones. They are uneven and craggy, the kind I’d admire at the base or walls of a very old building. Other women are simultaneously working. We aren’t quite doing it together, but we are building something, these friends and I,...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Israel accused of using aid control to forcibly displace Palestinians Israel’s tight grip on humanitarian aid is not just reckless—it’s part of a strategy to uproot Palestinians from northern Gaza, the Norwegian Refugee Council has warned. Ahmed Bayram, the organisation’s spokesperson, told Al Jazeera the selective delivery of aid amounts to coercion. “We think that providing aid to one area above another, as opposed...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:The seven indigenous ethnic groups of Panama have asked Pope Leo XIV to intercede to stop violence against them in the national protests and to urge the government of Jose Mulino to establish a genuine dialogue to resolve the current crisis. RELATED: Panamanian Workers and Social Movements Unite in Fierce March Against Mulino’s Neoliberal Agenda […]
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:President Trump is putting pressure on US universities. The elite university Harvard is resisting, but now Washington has threatened to block it from enrolling foreign students. Can Harvard continue to hold out?
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:The strike occured in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis. Meanwhile, Germany's antisemitism chief questioned the "proportionality" of Israeli's military actions in Gaza.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:"Luigi: The Musical" is a satirical take on the real-life murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Luigi Mangione, using humor to highlight the absurdity of our culture's obsession with violence and attention.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Arsenal lift the UEFA Women's Champions League with a 1-0 win that ended Barcelona's hopes of a three-peat.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Israel's actions in Gaza cannot be justified by Holocaust: German official Germany’s commissioner for antisemitism has called for a more honest and critical discussion about Berlin’s stance on Israel, warning that recent actions in Gaza go beyond what can be defended in the name of historical responsibility. Felix Klein told the Sunday edition of the national daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that while Germany’s...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:A few hours before the regional and legislative elections of May 25 in Venezuela, calm reigns in the country, as the authorities have implemented measures to ensure public order and public safety, according to teleSUR reports. RELATED: Over 400 International Observers To Monitor the Venezuelan Elections From San Cristobal, the capital of Táchira state, journalist […]
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Hundreds of people gathered in the Bulgarian capital on Saturday to lay flowers at the base of the statue of St Cyril and Methodius, creators of the Glagolitic script, which later evolved into the Cyrillic alphabet.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Former President Biden said Friday he is “feeling great” almost a week after publicly announcing his prostate cancer diagnosis. Biden made the comments from Connecticut's Bradley International Airport while visiting for his grandson’s graduation, according to News8. The remarks are the first spoken since Biden’s Sunday acknowledgement of the aggressive prognosis. On Monday, the longtime...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:SANTA FE, N.M.(KRQE) – Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set of "Rust" who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, has been released from prison. In April 2024, Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months for the involuntary manslaughter of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Hutchins was shot and killed by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of "Rust"...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:President Trump is slashing half of the National Security Council (NSC) staff as part of a restructuring process under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also serving as the acting national security adviser. The administration is downsizing the NSC, made up of top advisers and experts tasked with advising the president on national security...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:The US president has threatened to impose a 50-percent tariff on all goods from the EU starting June 1.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) Commission renewed their longstanding strategic partnership today with the signing of an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva. This renewed agreement reaffirms the joint commitment to advancing health security, universal health coverage, and sustainable development across the African...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:The young victims, two of whom remain under the rubble, range in age from seven months to 12 years old. .
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Blackout in Cannes early this Saturday morning, which forced to stop the last screenings of the Festival, which began to fear for its closing gala scheduled for the night, a cut that the authorities attribute to a sabotage that lasted five hours. RELATED: Anomalies Revealed in Spain’s Power Grid Weeks Before Major Blackout Around 160,000 […]
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Israeli settlers torch wheat fields near Nablus, farmers suffer heavy losses Israeli settlers have torched roughly four hectares (10 acres) of wheat fields near the northern West Bank town of Sebastia, local officials told the Wafa news agency. The head of Sebastia municipality, Mohammad Azem, said the settlers came from Shavei Shomron — an illegal settlement — and a nearby outpost. “Azem said the wheat crop was...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan accused one of the country's top politicians of trying to kill her.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said during a recent interview that President Trump is looking to “exact vengeance” on Harvard University after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blocked the Ivy League institution from enrolling foreign students. Raskin said on Friday night that the administration's move to rescind Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Joseph Kabila made the remarks in a 45-minute speech live on YouTube from an unspecified location.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Dermatologists say that although the melanin in darker skin offers some extra protection from the sun, it's not enough to replace wearing sunscreen.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Delays weaken trust in the United States as a reliable security partner.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Myanmar is caught in a scramble for minerals. Their exploitation is causing deaths and environmental harm in the country's Kachin State, activists tell DW. Can the region's independence movement make a difference?
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Over 70,000 Gaza children face acute hunger as aid trickles in The World Food Programme has warned that more than 70,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition, as Israel continues to block the vast majority of aid convoys. “WFP is taking every opportunity to deliver food and nutrition assistance – but this is just a drop in the bucket,” the UN agency wrote on X. “To avert famine and save lives, we...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:US President Donald Trump granted Syria sweeping exemptions from sanctions in a major first step toward fulfilling his pledge to lift a half-century of penalties on a country shattered by 14 years of civil war.
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