A move to toughen Australia’s immigration laws while offering Iranian soccer football players asylum has been labelled “hypocritical” by the Greens and refugee advocates.

Netherlands: after an embarrassing saga where Dutch minister Karremans, took control of the Chinese chip manufacturer Nexperia, almost bringing the European car industry to it’s knees, the Chinese company is now producing these chips in China locally. It’s like the Dutch government doesn’t understand that the Chinese have a backup plan for their backup plan. Like there would be no response? Within months another foreign company is leaving the Netherlands because the Dutch government is an American lapdog.

British wildlife will replace historical figures on the next series of Bank of England banknotes - and the public will get their say on which animals and birds will appear.

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A new report has expressed alarm at what it describes as backsliding press freedoms across the Americas, with the United States seeing the steepest decline.

In dem südamerikanischen Land hat es nach Angaben der WHO seit 1993 keine lokale Ansteckung mit Lepra mehr gegeben. Die Organisation stufte Chile deshalb nun als leprafrei ein. Ein fast beispielloser Vorgang.

When Trump readied the 11th Airborne Division out of Alaska for potential deployment to Minneapolis to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents in their immigration crackdown, I posted the big scoop: the operations leader for that unit was none other than Canadian Brigadier-General Robert McBride. I subsequently wrote about the intertwined nature of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the US military for The Economist.

Es ist Mittwoch 🖼️ meine eleganten Kerle und Kerlinnen

It is best fresh.

The prime minister’s seat was empty in the House of Commons during the marathon four-hour debate on the Iran war on the evening of March 9. Mark Carney blamed scheduling issues, but it was a notable absence, jumped on by the Conservatives, who claimed he was in hiding.

More than 40% of Russian citizens suffering from rare diseases face problems obtaining medicines and medical nutrition, according to a study by patient organizations reviewed by the newspaper Kommersant.

When the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion in July 2019, on the day he was arrested for child sex trafficking, agents forced open a large safe to find diamonds, bundles of cash, passports, binders of CDs and hard drives.

From Let Me Be Single in Peace! by AIZAKI Kabegiwa and SHIKI Mutsuko

Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, on Tuesday declined to condemn Republican lawmakers who recently made Islamophobic comments, saying only that he had spoken to them about their “tone”.

The US military said it attacked and destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the strait of Hormuz amid reports that Iran has begun laying explosive devices in the strategically vital waterway.

Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 11.03.26 (орієнтовно)

Scientists say the health and environmental effects of Israeli strikes on oil depots in and around Tehran could be severe, impacting water and food sources long after the smoke and black rain clears.

Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, but a luxury 737 she has traveled on remains in government hands. That plane, reportedly dubbed the “Big, Beautiful Jet” by DHS staffers, has been quietly leased to the department by a company linked to William Walters, a former State Department official who donated thousands of dollars to a pro-Noem political action committee. Walters owns a constellation of businesses that—despite a dearth of prior experience working for the government—won lucrative contracts with Noem’s DHS over the past year.

It is thought the fox is rearing young on an island in the middle of a nature reserve.

Washington (United States) (AFP) – The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump would not be “happy” if Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran during the Middle East war, but it held back any strong criticism for Moscow.

The [Chinese Communist] Party’s feared internal police organ, the CCDI (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection) made its annual work report public. Like its previous reports covering 2023 and 2024, it includes data on the acknowledged number of cases in which the Liuzhi system has been employed, showing a record‑breaking 47,000 cases in 2025.

Always nice to hear acknowledgement of the obvious - with sunburns name checked.

The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws.

tried to open a YT link a friend sent me, and got greeted with this. Freetube and yt-dlp are also affected

From the original run of the animated series King of the Hill.

Manga: Toshi Densetsu Senpai

Source: Toshi Densetsu Senpai - chapter 3

“Stellar activity and plasma turbulence near a transmitting planet can broaden an otherwise ultra-narrow signal, spreading its power across more frequencies and making it more difficult to detect in traditional narrowband searches.”