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Homelessness rises as people move to regions assuming prices still low

Danielle Malseed moved to Mount Gambier thinking housing would be cheap and easy to find, as it had been in the past, but she ended up sleeping on a floor.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Michel Gondry's new film was created to keep his daughter close

The French director is best known for his Oscar-winning film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In his newest project, he team ups with his daughter, Maya.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

UN describes video of Ben-Gvir threatening Barghouti as 'disturbing'

UN describes video of Ben-Gvir threatening Barghouti as 'disturbing' United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres' spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the video of far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvirโ€™s threatening visit to Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti in prison was "distrubing", Al Jazeera reported on Friday. โ€œI can tell you that the video is disturbing,โ€ Dujarric told Al...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

China claims it has foiled Australian spies on its shores in stinging rebuke

The extensive statement from China's state security ministry accuses Australian leaders of deliberately pushing a false story about the threat Beijing poses to the country.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

CoreWeave investors sell more than $1bn in shares as IPO lock-up ends

Director Jack Cogen offloads stake with an aggregate market value of about $300mn

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Delaying Even More Coal, Gas Plant Closures Could Cost Ratepayers Billions

In May, the U.S. Department of Energy ordered Michiganโ€™s Campbell coal plant to stay open, despite its plans to shut down after more than 60 years of operation. A week later, DOE ordered the Eddystone oil and gas plant in Pennsylvania to do the same. The reason, according to the Trump administration, was an inadequate [โ€ฆ]

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Inside Climate News favicon Inside Climate News

Israeli settlers shoot Palestinians and torch cars in latest West Bank assaults

Israeli settlers shoot Palestinians and torch cars in latest West Bank assaults Israelisettlers attacked Palestinians on Friday, wounding at least five people,setting fire to at least three cars and a house and destroying agricultural land across the occupied West Bank. In the town of al-Mazraa al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah, a group of settlers launched an assault that led to confrontations. Three Palestinians were...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Israelโ€™s aid rules demand โ€œsensitive data, put staff at riskโ€

Bushra Khalidi says Israelโ€™s new NGO registration rules violate international law and endanger aid workers.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Opinion: Germany's zeal for Israeli genocide revives its dangerous exceptionalism

Opinion: Germany's zeal for Israeli genocide revives its dangerous exceptionalism Germanyis open about its uninhibited support forIsrael's war ofexterminationandgenocideinPalestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it. Recognition for its Zionist zeal enables Germany to rehabilitate its exceptionalism, or Sonderweg, with catastrophic consequences for Palestinians andinternational law. Germany is not...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Trump rolls out red carpet to welcome Putin to Alaska

The U.S. and Russian presidents have started their meeting, with senior aides in the room.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Politico Europe favicon Politico Europe

Thousands sign letter urging Harvard not to capitulate to Trump administrationโ€™s demandsย 

Thousands sign letter urging Harvard not to capitulate to Trump administrationโ€™s demands Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 08/15/2025 - 18:17 The letter urges Harvard University to safeguard its independence and maintain political neutrality A sign supporting Harvard University, amid ongoing tensions between the institution and US President Donald Trump's administration, stands outside a home in the greater Boston area...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Verdict, sentencing in coup trial for Brazilโ€™s Bolsonaro set for September

Supreme Court will rule on ex-president's fate in case dividing nation that could result in lengthy prison term.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Will Trump and Putinโ€™s meeting be successful? 6 things to look out for.

Trump and the White House have described the meeting as an opening play to larger negotiations โ€” possibly with Ukraine at the table.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Politico Europe favicon Politico Europe

Sri Lanka: UN Rights Report Details Security Force Abuses

Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025. 2025 Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Geneva) โ€“ TheUnited Nations Human Rights officeโ€™sreport on Sri Lanka details entrenched and systemic rights violationsโ€”including arbitrary detention, torture, and deaths in custodyโ€”under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake,...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Human Rights Watch favicon Human Rights Watch

Macron vows justice after unknown attackers chop down tree honoring murdered French Jewish man

The tree, located in ร‰pinay-sur-Seine, was chopped down Wednesday night, seemingly with a chainsaw.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour favicon PBS NewsHour

Weight-loss weariness and Trump threats wipe $250bn off Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly

Trumpโ€™s push for price cuts and tariffs weighs on โ€˜obesity franchisesโ€™, which have missed out on equity marketโ€™s rise

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

WATCH: Trump and Putin hold joint news conference after meeting in Alaska

President Donald Trump said he and Vladimir Putin didnโ€™t reach a deal to end Russiaโ€™s war in Ukraine after meeting on Friday โ€” despite Putin saying they had come to โ€œan understandingโ€ โ€” as the two leaders offered scant details on what was discussed while heaping praise on each other.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour favicon PBS NewsHour

Gaza Strip: Malnutrition causes developmental issues for life in children, says Oxfam

Gaza Strip: Malnutrition causes developmental issues for life in children, says Oxfam Malnutrition in children causes lifelong developmental issues, Oxfam's humanitarian response adviser for the Gaza Strip told Irish public broadcaster RTE on Friday. Chris McIntosh told RTร‰โ€™s Morning Ireland,"Malnutrition in children is a severe problem because it can cause developmental issues". "Unlike adults, they don't have the...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Fact check: Trump's false claims about Washington, D.C.

US President Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C. He declared that crime in the capital was "out of control" โ€” but is this really true? DW checks the facts.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Deutsche Welle (DW) favicon Deutsche Welle (DW)

The Alaska Summit Is Expected to Last About 6 Hours: Peskov

Presidents Putin and Trump, however, will not sign any documents. On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that talks in Alaska between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to last at least six or seven hours. RELATED: Trump Says He Wonโ€™t โ€˜Negotiate for Ukraineโ€™ โ€œWe assume there will first be [โ€ฆ]

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Telesur English favicon Telesur English

At least one person killed after train collides with car in Denmark, local officials say

The extent of the injuries is still unclear, but photos from the scene show derailed and overturned carriages.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Euronews favicon Euronews

Indian PM Modi praises Hindu nationalist organisation in unprecedented Independence Day address

Indian PM Modi praises Hindu nationalist organisation in unprecedented Independence Day address Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 08/15/2025 - 16:36 Local media reported Fridayโ€™s comments marked the prime ministerโ€™s first mention of the RSS in his twelve Independence Day addresses to date Indiaโ€™s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects a military guard before his annual address from the Red Fort to mark the countryโ€™s...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Israeli police make arrests at rally for slain Al Jazeera journalists

Footage shows Israeli police in Haifa arresting protesters who were condemning the killings of journalists in Gaza.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Bondi names DEA head as D.C.’s ’emergency police commissioner,’ but capital leaders push back

It was not immediately clear where the move left Pamela Smith, the city's current police chief, who works for the D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour favicon PBS NewsHour

Cair letter to Marco Rubio: We're being targeted for Palestine advocacy

Cair letter to Marco Rubio: We're being targeted for Palestine advocacy Submitted by MEE correspondent on Fri, 08/15/2025 - 15:40 MEE is the first to obtain the letter sent by the Muslim-American rights group, which asks the top diplomat to clarify recent remarks he made US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits next to Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on 14 July 2025...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Israel kills three Palestinians in two separate attacks on hospitals in Gaza

Israel kills three Palestinians in two separate attacks on hospitals in Gaza The Israeli military launched attacks on two hospitals in Gaza on Friday, Al Jazeera reported. In one incident, a drone fired at the outpatient clinic of Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, damaging the rooftop, killing at least two Palestinians, and narrowly missing an Al Jazeera reporter, Tareq Abu Azzoum, who was 20 metres...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Russia gains in east before Trump-Putin summit, Ukraine says holding off

Zelenskyy decries Russiaโ€™s attempt to gain battlefield edge pre-US summit maintains its army is holding back 'occupier'.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Far-right Israeli minister confronts long-imprisoned Palestinian leader face to face

Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences after being convicted of involvement in attacks at the height of the Palestinian uprising, or intifada, in the early 2000s.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour favicon PBS NewsHour

West Bank: France condemns Israel's destruction of a school it helped fund and build

West Bank: France condemns Israel's destruction of a school it helped fund and build France's foreign ministry has condemned Israelโ€™s demolition of a school that was financeed and built by the French Development Agency (AFD) in partnership with the European Union, Al Jazeera reported on Friday. The school in the village of Aqaba near Tubas in the West Bank, was demolished on 5 August. It was supposed to enrol around...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

A cruel summer as record wildfires scorch Europe

Wildfires continue to test firefighters and locals across Europe as droughts and heatwaves turn regions into tinderboxes. The data for 2025 alone is a sign of things to come.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Deutsche Welle (DW) favicon Deutsche Welle (DW)

Lost in translation

Even in the language app era there are benefits to learning a foreign tongue

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Lip-Bu Tan, Intel CEO with Silicon Valleyโ€™s toughest turnaround job

He may havewon over the deal-besotted Trump, but rebuilding Americaโ€™s chip manufacturing prowess is a job few envy

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Wildfires sweep Spain, Portugal and Greece during unremitting heatwave

Southern Europeโ€™s wildfires intensify amid a searing heatwave and major religious holidays.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Can India Survive the Trade War?ย 

Trumpโ€™s tariff onslaught has forced India into a precarious position, and New Delhi is employing three strategies in tandem to get out of it.

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: The Diplomat favicon The Diplomat

Israeli army fires at emergency vehicles trying to rescue civilians in Gaza City

Israeli army fires at emergency vehicles trying to rescue civilians in Gaza City The Israeli army has been shooting at emergency vehicles that have been trying to rescue wounded and dead people in Gaza Cityโ€™s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday. Israel has been carpet bombing the neighbourhood all week, destroying hundreds of homes, as part of its offensive to take over Gaza City. Gaza Civil Defence...

Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye