Stephen McDonell
China correspondent
Chinese scientists are in a battle to save one of the last large animal species living in the Yangtze River – and a complete ban on…
Category: 2. World
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Saving China’s finless porpoise from the brink of extinction
Watch: Endangered porpoises at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan, China -
Trump says museums in DC are too ‘woke’
In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump called for a review of Smithsonian Institutions museums, criticising their portrayal of US history as “horrible” and saying they focus too much on “how bad slavery was.” The White House says it…
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Israeli military says first stages of assault on Gaza City have begun
The Israeli military says it has begun the “preliminary actions” of a planned ground offensive to capture and occupy all of Gaza City and already has a hold on its outskirts.
A military spokesman said troops were already operating in the Zeitoun…
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Israel approves controversial E1 settlement plans in West Bank
ReutersIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the plans for 3,400 homes in the E1 area last week Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut off the occupied West Bank from East…
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JD Vance heckled while meeting National Guard troops in Washington DC
US Vice-President JD Vance and other senior members of the Trump administration were heckled as they met National Guard troops in Washington DC.
Vance, along with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen…
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Iran, Egypt FMs call for immediate end to genocide in Gaza
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, discussed the latest developments in the region in a telephone conversation on Wednesday.
The two top diplomats expressed their deep concern about the…
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What lessons can Europe learn from “daddy” school?
TEHRAN – US President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with European leaders appears to have left them with egg on their faces.
On Monday, Trump hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor…
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Oregon firefighters race to save one of the world’s tallest trees
Firefighters in Oregon are racing to save the Doerner Fir – one of the world’s tallest and oldest trees – from a fire that has been burning since Saturday.
The giant fir, more than 325ft (99m) tall and estimated to be over 450 years old, has…
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Why Donetsk matters so much for Ukraine’s defences against Russia
ReutersAnti-drone nets hang over a road near Kostyantynivka earlier this month A key takeaway from the summit in Alaska is that Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly wants to freeze the war in Ukraine along its current front line in return…
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Exclusive: American filmmaker exposes Israel’s war on Palestinian journalists
TEHRAN – In an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times, American filmmaker Robert Greenwald sheds light on the untold stories of Palestinian journalists who have been systematically silenced during Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.
Greenwald, a…
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