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  • Australia rebuffs calls to commit to joining hypothetical US-China conflict

    07/15/2025 7:10:56 AM PDT · by fluorescence · 15 replies
    The Guardian ^ | July 13, 2025 | Josh Butler
    Australia will refuse any US request to join a “hypothetical” conflict with China over Taiwan and won’t make any advance commitment, the defence industry minister, Pat Conroy, has said, amid reports Washington is seeking such promises in discussions over the Aukus submarines. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, also pushed back on such a request, alluding to America’s own position of so-called “strategic ambiguity” on whether the US would militarily respond in a conflict over Taiwan. He said Australia wanted to see “peace and security” in the region. Following multiple reports this week that the Pentagon was seeking guarantees from Australia...
  • Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales

    07/14/2025 1:39:09 PM PDT · by aposiopetic · 59 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 7/10/2025 | Peter Walker
    Shotgun pellets and bullets that contain lead are to be banned for almost all uses, ministers have said, in a long-awaited announcement welcomed by wildlife groups. < snip > The change to the law, announced by the environment minister Emma Hardy, will outlaw shotgun pellets containing more than 1% lead, and bullets that have more than 3%.
  • Ukraine must get ready for future in which there is no ceasefire with Russia

    07/13/2025 2:59:17 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 83 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sun 13 Jul 2025 | Dan Sabbagh
    While Donald Trump – and other western leaders – are taking their time to catch up with reality, it is obvious that Vladimir Putin has no apparent desire to halt the war in Ukraine. A realistic future military and diplomatic strategy for Kyiv has to accept that fact – and formulate a new approach. The past six months have been dominated by the erroneous assumption that it would be possible for Trump to negotiate a ceasefire, even an armistice. That would be followed by the arrival of an Anglo-French led stabilisation force to secure the future of Ukraine. But Putin...
  • US only has 25% of all Patriot missile interceptors needed for Pentagon’s military plans

    07/08/2025 6:38:47 PM PDT · by Mariner · 83 replies
    The Guardian ^ | July 8th, 2025 | Unattributed
    The United States only has about 25% of the Patriot missile interceptors it needs for all of the Pentagon’s military plans after burning through stockpiles in the Middle East in recent months, an alarming depletion that led to the Trump administration freezing the latest transfer of munitions to Ukraine.The stockpile of the Patriot missiles has fallen so low that it raised concern inside the Pentagon that it could jeopardize potential US military operations, and deputy defense secretary, Stephen Feinberg, authorized the transfer to be halted while they reviewed where weapons were being sent.snipTrump also told Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in...
  • ‘They attack us without provocation’: West Bank town mourns its dead after settler raid

    07/08/2025 4:24:32 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 19 replies
    Guarniad ^ | 26/6/25 | Julian Borger and Sufian Taha
    ‘They attack us without provocation’: West Bank town mourns its dead after settler raid Sense of helplessness pervades Kafr Malik where IDF killed three Palestinians after locals resisted masked marauders Julian Borger and Sufian Taha in Kafr Malik The men from Fatah arrived on Thursday morning, hours after the attack on Kafr Malik, to put out more flags along the main streets, adding bright primary colours to a mournful scene, but they did nothing to relieve the all-encompassing sense of helplessness. Three men from this central West Bank town, one a teenager, lay dead and several others were still in...
  • Arrests in France after scores report being attacked with syringes at street music festival

    06/22/2025 10:01:09 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 18 replies
    UK Guardian ^ | 06 22 2025 | Staff
    French police have detained 12 suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during the country’s annual street music festival, officials said on Sunday. Millions of people took to the streets across France on Saturday evening for the Fête de la Musique, with authorities reporting “unprecedented crowds” in Paris. Before the party, posts on social media had called for women to be targeted during the festivities. The interior ministry said 145 victims across the country had reported being stabbed with needles. Paris police reported 13 cases in the capital. Officials did not say if these were cases of so-called...
  • LA teachers are on the frontlines as Ice raids terrorize their students: ‘You are not alone’

    06/20/2025 5:20:21 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 37 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Jun19, 2025 | Helen Li in Los Angeles
    One morning earlier this month, Melanie woke up to the news that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) had detained more than 40 migrant workers at a garment factory, as part of a series of raids across Los Angeles. Her high school, located downtown, is not too far away from where the arrests took place. She didn’t want to go to school – but still drove there to complete her final exams...... Embedded in their local communities, teachers are now becoming the biggest advocates and resource distributors for their students, helping them develop longer term resiliency at school and beyond....... Throughout...
  • Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

    06/13/2025 9:56:09 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 42 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Fri 13 Jun 2025 | Robert Booth
    Men who engage in the online “manosphere” and the content of Andrew Tate are often able to express a “strong commitment to equal treatment and fairness”, according to research commissioned by Ofcom. Prompted by growing concerns about internet misogyny, researchers for the UK communications regulator followed the journeys of dozens of men through online content ranging from the US podcaster Joe Rogan to forums for “incels” (involuntary celibates). They found that while a minority encountered “extremely misogynistic content”, many users of the manosphere were critically engaged, selective and capable of discarding messages that did not resonate with their values. They...
  • Trump warns Musk of ‘very serious consequences’ if he backs Democrats

    06/07/2025 1:51:22 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 65 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sat 7 Jun 2025 | Edward Helmore
    Donald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this week. The warning, delivered in an interview with NBC News scheduled to broadcast on Sunday, follows days of feuding and threats after Musk called Republicans’ budget legislation an “abomination”. Trump told interviewer Kristen Welker his relationship with the tech mogul was over and warned Musk against choosing to fund Democrats after spending close to $300m in support of Trump’s re-election last year. “If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told...
  • Keir Starmer calls Israel’s recent actions in Gaza ‘appalling and intolerable’

    06/04/2025 8:55:04 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 38 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Wed 4 Jun 2025 | Kiran Stacey and Patrick Butler
    Keir Starmer has called Israel’s recent actions in Gaza “appalling, counterproductive and intolerable”, as the UK government comes under mounting pressure to take stronger action after the killings of dozens of civilians at food points in recent days. The prime minister told MPs on Wednesday the UK was considering imposing sanctions on members of the Israeli government, but is so far resisting growing calls for a complete ban on arms sales and immediate recognition of Palestine. Starmer was speaking after several attacks at food distribution hubs in recent days left dozens of people dead and hundreds more injured. The attacks...
  • AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control

    06/02/2025 4:18:40 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 29 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sat 10 May 2025 | Dan Milmo
    Artificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer’s first nuclear test before they release all-powerful systems. Max Tegmark, a leading voice in AI safety, said he had carried out calculations akin to those of the US physicist Arthur Compton before the Trinity test and had found a 90% probability that a highly advanced AI would pose an existential threat. In a paper published by Tegmark and three of his students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), they recommend calculating the “Compton constant” – defined in the paper as the probability that an...
  • Record number of Americans seeking UK residency, says Home Office

    05/24/2025 10:15:14 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 54 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sat 24 May 2025 | Edward Helmore
    During the 12 months leading up to March, more than 6,000 US citizens have applied to either become British subjects or to live and work in the country indefinitely – the highest number since comparable records began in 2004, according to data released on Thursday by the UK’s Home Office. Over the period, 6,618 Americans applied for British citizenship – with more than 1,900 of the applications received between January and March, most of which has been during the beginning of Donald Trump’s second US presidency. The surge in applications at the start of 2025 made that the highest number...
  • Drag queen Jiggly Caliente dies aged 44 after ‘severe infection’

    04/28/2025 8:24:14 AM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 30 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 04/27/23025 | Joe Coughlan
    The drag queen Jiggly Caliente has died aged 44 after a “severe infection”, her family confirmed. The performer, whose real name was Bianca Castro-Arabejo, rose to fame after taking part in the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Caliente’s family announced on Thursday that the Filipino-American drag performer had part of her leg amputated due to the infection. Her family wrote on Instagram that she was “cherished by many” for her career, and died on Sunday at 4.42am “surrounded by her loving family and close friends”.
  • Stock markets rise as Trump says he will reduce tariffs on China ‘substantially’

    04/23/2025 7:56:05 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 25 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 4/23/2025 | Lauren Almeida
    Stock markets have risen around the world after Donald Trump said his tariffs on China would come down “substantially” and he had “no intention” of firing the chair of the American central bank, Jay Powell. The president told reporters in Washington on Tuesday he plannned to be “very nice” to China in trade talks and that tariffs could drop in both countries if they could reach a deal, adding: “It will come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.” The comments sparked a fresh rally on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 blue chip index and the Nasdaq ending the...
  • Sarah Palin loses retrial of defamation case against New York Times

    04/22/2025 4:22:17 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Tue 22 Apr 2025 17.13 EDT | Guardian staff and agency
    Sarah Palin on Tuesday lost in the retrial of her defamation case against the New York Times – a second defeat in the efforts by the former Republican vice-presidential candidate. A federal jury in New York deliberated for two hours then found the newspaper not liable for allegedly defaming Palin in a 2017 editorial about gun control. Palin appeared dejected as she left the courthouse in Manhattan. The case garnered much attention not just because Palin and the Times are household names across the US but because it raised broader issues about free speech in the era of the return...
  • Reform UK a ‘far-right and racist party’, says largest teaching union

    04/19/2025 8:34:19 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 8 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Tue 15 Apr 2025 | Richard Adams and Peter Walker
    The UK’s largest teaching union has called Reform UK “far-right and racist” and its leader has dismissed Nigel Farage as “a poundshop Donald Trump,” as the union pledged funds to oppose the party’s candidates in elections. Delegates to the National Education Union’s annual conference backed a motion stating that “far-right and racist organisations, including Reform, seek to build on the despair, poverty and alienation in our society by scapegoating refugees, asylum seekers, Muslims, Jews and others who do not fit their beliefs”. The motion also committed the NEU to use its political fund for campaigns against Reform election candidates and...
  • Keir Starmer to unveil plans for police officers on foot to patrol every busy neighbourhood

    04/09/2025 9:04:59 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 26 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Wed 9 Apr 2025 | Rajeev Syal, Mimi Ibrahim and Vikram Dodd
    Police officers on foot will patrol every busy neighbourhood at peak times as part of a set of community-focused measures to be unveiled by Keir Starmer. In an announcement billed as a return to an era of “bobbies on the beat”, the prime minister will also confirm that every neighbourhood in England and Wales will be given a named and contactable police officer. The plans are expected to be in place by July, and follow the government’s promises to restore confidence in community policing. Labour’s leadership is under pressure to offer new policies for party councillors in England to sell...
  • British Steel could be nationalised as PM and chancellor consider ‘all options’

    04/08/2025 3:56:57 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 28 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Tue 8 Apr 2025 | Rowena Mason
    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are actively considering nationalising British Steel in an escalation of plans first revealed in the Guardian last year. The prime minister said all options were on the table to secure the future of the Scunthorpe plant, which is owned by the Chinese firm Jingye and employs about 3,500 people. The possibility of nationalisation was first revealed in December but discussions have taken on fresh urgency with US tariffs and talks about a financial support package to move to less polluting technology having faltered. The government has now been forced to consider more drastic options, ranging...
  • Wayne Gretzky was a Canadian hero. His pro-Trump rebrand is a betrayal

    04/06/2025 6:23:55 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 40 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Thu 27 Mar 2025 | Karen Booth
    I remain immensely proud to have lived in Edmonton during the Oilers’ glory years, when Wayne Gretzky was not merely that city’s darling, but also a fresh-faced, flag-waving ambassador for all of Canada. On ice, he dazzled with his scoring prowess and consistency; off ice, he charmed with his various charitable deeds and aw-shucks humility. Few could doubt his love for – and mentorship of – the late Joey Moss, the legendary locker-room attendant who was born with Down’s syndrome. So when it was suggested that the superstar centre and newly minted bridegroom had cried crocodile tears over being traded...
  • Keir Starmer urged to get tough with Trump as US tariff threat looms

    03/29/2025 3:31:45 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 39 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sat 29 Mar 2025 | Toby Helm
    Keir Starmer should fight back strongly against Donald Trump if he imposes punitive tariffs on British exports, senior UK and EU diplomats said on Saturday night, amid heightened fears that the US president could trigger a global trade war with devastating effects on the UK economy. British government officials in London and Washington are working frantically this weekend to try to persuade Trump not to slap duties on more key UK industries on what he is calling “liberation day” on Wednesday. The US president has already announced plans for 25% levies on imports of cars, steel and aluminium to the...