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Saudi Arabia Overturns Death Sentence For Sri Lankan Man
Anojan Sivarasa, 27, was sentenced to death last month after a Saudi court convicted him of blasphemy over a Facebook post.
In Numbers: Shortfall In Oil Stocks And Saudi's Critical Supply Role
Saudi Arabia is often described as the oil market's firefighter because it holds the largest share of readily available spare production capacity, allowing it to quickly raise output when wars, sanctions or supply outages disrupt global markets.
"We Prioritise Our People": Netflix To Cut 1,000 Jobs Amid Slow Growth Rate
"Our mission -- to entertain the world -- is ambitious, and delivering on it requires us to be disciplined about where we prioritise our people and resources," co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters wrote in an internal memo, according to several US media outlets.
Houthis Claim Attack On Saudi Aramco Facilities As Explosions Rock Riyadh
Powerful explosions also rattled the Saudi capital, as the coalition fighting the Houthis said it had intercepted a missile fired by the Iran-backed group towards Riyadh.
Navi Pillay Says US Sanctioned ICC As Trump Did Not Get Nobel Peace Prize
Navi Pillay also said it was no coincidence the US sanctions on the ICC were announced just hours after her Nobel, as a "reaction to the fact that the award was not given to President Trump."
Iran Plans New Tactics To Strike Ships In Hormuz To Sway US Elections: Report
As part of the new strategy, Tehran will also expand the geographical scope of its operations beyond the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman and waters further afield, the officials said.
'Really Low IQ' Thief Steals Empty Apple Mac Mini Boxes In Arizona Burglary
A 'low IQ' burglar in Arizona stole empty Apple Mac Mini boxes while the computers were kept right in front of him.
Who Is Najmeh Amini? 23-Year-Old Iranian Student Sentenced To Death For Blasphemy Over Online Post
Amini's death sentence is not final and remains subject to appeal before Iran's supreme court.
Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and extreme comments
Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist viewsReform UK has been rocked by a fresh crisis after councillors and election candidates for the party were caught on film making graphic threats of extreme violence and expressing racist and misogynistic views.Three councillors have already stood down from the party, which said it was conducting an investigation over the first revelations from an ITV undercover investigation that aired on Wednesday. Continue reading...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy feels ‘betrayed’ by Donald Trump over Starlink access
Ukrainian president accused US president of picking the other side over four years of warVolodymyr Zelenskyy has said he feels personally betrayed by Donald Trump after it emerged that Ukraine’s military has had its access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite squeezed, raising doubts about long-term US support for Kyiv.The Ukrainian president, on a visit to London, accused Trump of picking the other side after more than four years of war, risking a breakdown in relations already strained by the US agreeing to buy diesel from Moscow. Continue reading...
Container Ship Sinks Near Hormuz After Being Hit By Projectile: Report
The Singapore-flagged GFS Pride container ship, with a small 2,824 TEU (20-ft equivalent unit) capacity, had sunk, the sources said.
Skepticism as 'grubby' Trump caught up in another 'collusion' campaign to help Russia
President Donald Trump seems to be caught up in what The Guardian's editorial board describes as a "coordinated pressure" campaign to tip the Ukraine war in Russia's favor.The editorial board pointed to several "perilous circumstances" that have arisen in recent weeks. They pointed to Ukrainian forces losing access to Elon Musk's Starlink internet service, Ukraine suffering significant casualties after a Russian missile strike that the U.S. did not warn them about, and Trump's insistence that Ukraine hold elections despite the country still being at war, something that Russian President Vladimir Putin has also called for. "This raises suspicion of coordinated pressure to tip the scales in Russia’s favor after many months when Mr. Putin’s forces have failed to deliver significant advances and his country’s economy has been suffering from the effect of Ukrainian missile and drone counterstrikes," the editorial argued. The editorial argues that there is good reason to suspect Trump would go along with such a campaign. For instance, Trump has sought to blame Ukraine's attacks on Russia's oil refineries as the reason for rising diesel prices to avoid scrutiny of his disastrous war against Iran, which resulted in the Strait of Hormuz being closed for several weeks. "Mr. Trump is unhappy with Ukraine targeting Russian oil refineries. He claims that this is the cause of high energy prices afflicting American consumers and threatening Republican prospects in next month’s midterm elections," the editorial reads in part. "The domestic imperative to keep pump prices down led Mr. Trump to do a grubby deal to import diesel from Russia, in flagrant breach of international sanctions.""Russia is failing to achieve its war aims because the invasion was conceived in delusional hatred for the very idea of independent Ukrainian nationhood, which routinely underestimates that country’s will to resist. That is a flaw in Mr Putin’s plans that no amount of collusion with Mr Trump can fix," it added.


