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SCOTLAND: The Guardian: 16th September 2024: After a decade of unflinching protest, local campaigners chase off predatory flamingo from the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond ... Read more |
FRANCE: Al Jazeera: 28th August 2024: French prosecutors on Wednesday freed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov from police custody after four days of questioning over allegations that the messaging app is being used for illegal activities ...... Read more |
JAPAN: AA Asia-Pacific: 9th August 2024: At 11.02am on 9 August 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. It followed the use of such a weapon on Hiroshima days earlier ...... Read more |
USA: Los Angeles Times: 8th August 2024: U.S. Housing officials (HUD) to scrap a widely criticised rule that excludes the most disabled veterans from accessing subsidised housing designed for them ...... Read more |
JAPAN: Japan Times: 6th August 2024: At 8.15am on Tuesday 6th August 1945, an atomic bomb exploded 600 meters (1,969 feet) above the city of Hiroshima. On the 79th anniversary people across Japan observed a minute’s silence to remember the horrors visited on the city. ...... Read more |
IRAN: Tehran Times: 14th July: Former President Donald Trump injured in shooting at Pennsylvania rally ... Read more |
FRANCE: France 24: 26th June 2024: An army of artisans is racing to complete thousands of costumes for the Paris Olympics ceremonies that the designers say will each be a unique combination of history, sport and flamboyance ...... Read more |
BRITAIN: It is 80 years since: D-Day: 6th June 1944: Unprecedented coordination between Allied nations, and the intensive planning of engineers, meteorologists, logisticians and countless more, led to a force from 13 countries approaching Normandy in a 5000-vessel armada ......Read more |
SCOTLAND: BBC: 31st May 2024: Scotland v Israel Women’s Euro 2025 qualifier at Glasgow’s Hampden stadium ...... Match delayed as protester chains himself to goalpost ...... Read more |
IRAN: Tehran Times: 20th May 2024: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been confirmed dead after a day’s long rescue mission ... Leader declares five days of national mourning ...... Read more |
GAZA - PALESTINE: Al Jazeera: 11th May 2024: Rafah’s Kuwaiti hospital under threat as Israel expands its assault on Gaza ...... Read more |
IRAN: Tehran Times: 5th May 2024: Benjamin Netanyahu’s government faces immense domestic pressure to end the conflict in Gaza and secure the return of the captives ...... Read more |
FRANCE: The Guardian: 5th May 2024: Was it something I said? Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah refused entry into France to address the French Senate on his work in Gaza hospitals as Germany enforces Schengen rules preventing him from entering any Schengen country for a year ...... Read more |
GERMANY: The National: 13th April 2024: Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, the recently appointed Rector of the University of Glasgow, has been refused entry into Germany where he was due to address a Palestine Solidarity Conference on his work in Gaza hospitals, where he had been treating victims of the war with Israel. Berlin police suspended the event saying the speaker was subject ot a ban ... Read full rectorial address here ...... Read more |
IRAN: Tehran Times: 1st April 2024: Iran’s Ambassador has verified reports of an Israeli assault on the Consular Section of the Iranian Embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus ...... Read more |
GAZA: The Guardian: 19th March 2024: Jared Kushner, sees real estate opportunity in stricken Gaza’s Mediterranean beach front ...... Read more |
BRAZIL: Brasil de Fato: 21st February 2024: Colombia and Bolivia voice ‘solidarity’ with Brazil over Lula’s comments on the massacres in Gaza. ...... Read more |
IRAN: Tehran Times: 11th February 2024: Iran celebrates1st anniversary of sacred independence ...... Iran’s Islamic Revolution shook the world in 1979, with currents that continue to be felt today. The Revolution promised three goals: social justice, freedom and democracy, and independence from great power tutelage ...... Read more |
WASHINGTON: BBC News: 1st February 2024: President Joe Biden has authorised military action in the Middle East after three US troops were killed following a devastating drone strike in Jordan ...... Read more |
WASHINGTON: France24: 31st January 2024: The medieval city of Saada in the Yemen hit by American and British air-strikes ...... Read more |
WASHINGTON: Hurriyet Daily News: 31st Janusry 2024: Biden says he has decided response to Jordan attacks ... but releases no details as he heads for fundraising campaign in Florida ...... Read more |
WORLD: Helsinki Times: 13th January 2024: The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: A voice silenced in Ukraine ...... Read more |
CYPRUS: Cyprus Mail: 12th January 2024: Cyprus "not involved" as Britain uses Akrotiri air base to bomb Yemen ...... Read more |
IRAN: Los Angeles Times: 3rd January 2024: Iran says at least 103 killed in blasts at ceremony honoring slain general ...... Read more |