Amjad Youssef one of most-wanted fugitives in relation to slaughter of almost 290 civilians under Assad A Syrian former regime official suspected of leading a notorious civilian massacre revealed by the Guardian – and who became one of the country’s most-wanted fugitives after the fall of Bashar al-Assad – has been arrested by security forces, Syria’s interior ministry announced. Amjad Youssef was captured in the countryside about 30 miles (50km) outside the city of Hama and had “been taken into
Jake Reiner, Romy Reiner, Rob Reiner, and Michele Reiner in Los Angeles in 2024.
Creator card is designed for people making money through TikTok Live, some of whom have complained of delays in payments TikTok and Visa have launched a debit card for content creators in the UK that they say will allow people to quickly access their earnings from the platform. The creator card is designed for the growing numbers of people making money through TikTok Live, a live streaming feature where creators receive virtual gifts from viewers that are later converted into cash. Continue read
James Kempster’s DNA was found on dead barn owl and kestrel rammed into door handles of volunteer store A man has been found guilty of possessing the bodies of wild birds of prey that were dumped alongside 50 dead hares outside a village shop in Hampshire. Traces of James Kempster’s DNA were found on a barn owl and kestrel that were rammed into the handles of the volunteer-led shop in Broughton. Continue reading...
Lack of a sustained plan to end the war has convinced US allies that the White House is running out of ideas Nearly eight weeks after Donald Trump launched his assault on Iran , the White House has shifted from a strategy of shock-and-awe bombardments and leadership decapitation to a plan of sustained economic pressure as it tests the wills of a regime practiced over decades at wars of attrition. Since the negotiations stalled, the White House has begun to shift its messaging to say it is willin
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Revised figures increase fears about how the energy-intensive sites could worsen the climate emergency The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from the technology by a factor of more than 100. According to new data quietly published this week, energy use by AI datacentres in the UK could cause the emission of up to 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide (MtCO₂) – about as much as gener
NBC News · Oct 8
A JetBlue plane lands at Los Angeles International Airport on March 31.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Kim Leadbeater tells of plan to table identical bill that peers would be unable to stop MPs and peers who led the assisted dying bill have promised to bring it back to parliament after it ran out of time in the House of Lords. Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who tabled the private member’s bill, said the plan would be to table an identical bill in the next parliamentary session, which would prevent peers blocking it again, as the Lords cannot stop the same bill twice. Continue reading...
NBC News · Oct 8
The FDA will prioritize review of three psychedelic drugs, the latest move by the Trump administration to increase access to such treatments.
