“Make Therapy Great Again.” Jordanian editorial cartoonist Osama Hajjaj weighs in on the growing concerns over Trump’s erratic behavior and his sanity.

I’m a Maine reporter who went to high school with Graham Platner. Here’s what explains his success. The 41-year-old is not just the probable Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Sen. Susan Collins; he’s arguably the most remarkable political story anywhere in the country.

In Maine, youthful Graham Platner is running a dynamic, rural-focused campaign to try and beat Gov Janet Mills to become the Democrat's candidate to face Sen Susan Collins not unlike Péter Magyar's win in Hungary - www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/14/p...

Greek police using masked 'mercenaries' to push migrants back across border Mercenaries recruited since at least 2020 for illegal migrant ‘pushbacks’ in Greece, BBC told

Greece using masked foreign mercenaries to forcibly push refugees & migrants back across border www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Amazon staffers at Oregon warehouse facility told not to provide first aid after co-worker collapsed - www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question

Israeli settlers are driving Palestinian Christians out of West Bank villages where they have lived for millennia @theguardian.com reports fm Taybeh - www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

What happens in Sudan will not stay in Sudan The disintegration of the country would complete an arc of ungovernable lands across the Sahel

What happens in Sudan will not stay in Sudan, by Mo Ibrahim "The UAE, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and others must stop supplying arms and support immediately." www.ft.com/content/4ff2...

What happens in Sudan will not stay in Sudan The disintegration of the country would complete an arc of ungovernable lands across the Sahel

What happens in Sudan will not stay in Sudan, by Mo Ibrahim "The UAE, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and others must stop supplying arms and support immediately." www.ft.com/content/4ff2...

A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question

Israeli settlers are driving Palestinian Christians out of West Bank villages where they have lived for millennia @theguardian.com reports fm Taybeh - www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The US government is now paying the French company TotalEnergies 928 million dollars: So that Total does not build two planned offshore wind farms off the US east coast - and instead invests in oil and natural gas projects.

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A mockery of international protection needs: the USA has let in 4,499 refugees since October - all but three were South African 🇿🇦 - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Project Drawdown data suggests a switch to alternative refrigerants than F-gases would put a bigger dent in greenhouse emissions than the switch to EVs.

Plus it would protect water from TFA pollution.

Alternative refrigerants already exist.

Feels like a no-brainer.

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The gall.
JD Vance Accuses EU of Meddling in Hungarian Election: "Will you stand against the bureaucrats in Brussels? Will you stand for western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, truth, and the God of our fathers? Then, my friends, go to the polls and stand for Viktor Orban!"

The gall.
JD Vance Accuses EU of Meddling in Hungarian Election: "Will you stand against the bureaucrats in Brussels? Will you stand for western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, truth, and the God of our fathers? Then, my friends, go to the polls and stand for Viktor Orban!"

The African continent dominates @ourworldindata.org stats on people living in extreme poverty. Non-cooperation with the World Bank, and war, means Eritrea and Sudan are not listed. Clearly wealthy donor states and their own leaders must do more

America vs. the World President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

A good look how the Trump Administration's America first approach & abuse of allies is weakening the USA's position and American's pocketbook's, Robert Kagan's America vs. the World - The Atlantic - www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

North Walsham and Dilham Canal lock at Dilham, a lovely circular walk from Dilham church

A matter of life or death: giving birth in Sierra Leone One year ago this week, the UK government announced a boost in defence spending. It came at the expense of drastic cuts to the foreign aid budget. So far there has been little clear guidance on where ...

Sierra Leone's medical system and maternity care is gravely threatened by cuts to UKAid funding reports @channel4news.bsky.social Minnie Stephenson - www.channel4.com/news/a-matte...

A matter of life or death: giving birth in Sierra Leone One year ago this week, the UK government announced a boost in defence spending. It came at the expense of drastic cuts to the foreign aid budget. So far there has been little clear guidance on where ...

Sierra Leone's medical system and maternity care is gravely threatened by cuts to UKAid funding reports @channel4news.bsky.social Minnie Stephenson - www.channel4.com/news/a-matte...

According to figures from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) from mid-March, more than 1,500 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced and 105 people injured by radical settlers since the beginning of the year. The number is likely higher now.
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America vs. the World President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

A good look how the Trump Administration's America first approach & abuse of allies is weakening the USA's position and American's pocketbook's, Robert Kagan's America vs. the World - The Atlantic - www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid due to 56% budget cut UK’s bilateral aid to African countries, which funds areas such as schools and clinics, to be cut by almost £900m by 2028-29

Overseas development aid funding axed by
@FCDOGovUK
leaving programmes supporting impoverished communities without foreign support
@UKaid
- www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Help fund research into Parkinson's! Donate to our fund raising trek across the Scottish Borders to Northumberland! Thank you!

From rhe horse's mouth: Putin provides intel to Iran despite US statements to the contrary

'My mother cried out one last time': Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car Khaled Bani Odeh's parents and two brothers were shot dead as they drove home from a shopping trip in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli security forces IDF and settler groups are out of control in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and civilians are being indiscriminately killed. 'My mother cried out one last time': Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huw, Rachel, Peter and Jane's fundraiser for Parkinson’s UK Help Huw Leyshon raise money to support Parkinson’s UK

Next month i am walking 100 kms along St Cuthbert's Way to Holy Island, Northumberland to support @parkinsons.org.uk to fund research into finding a cure for Parkinsons. Please donate! - www.justgiving.com/page/huw-ley...

'My mother cried out one last time': Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car Khaled Bani Odeh's parents and two brothers were shot dead as they drove home from a shopping trip in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli security forces IDF and settler groups are out of control in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and civilians are being indiscriminately killed. 'My mother cried out one last time': Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congratulations @martinplaut.bsky.social on this recognition of your scholarship!

Fears Of Iranian Refugee Influx Grow In Central Asia As War Intensifies Two weeks of US-Israeli air strikes have displaced millions inside Iran, raising fears in neighboring countries about a possible refugee spillover that could potentially turn into a humanitarian crisi...

Fears Of Iranian Refugee Influx Grow As War Intensifies: UNHCR girds for possible exodus of Iranian refugees into Central Asia as more than 1,300 enter Turkey daily - www.rferl.org/a/33707155.h...

Toxic pet flea treatment chemicals found in Wales' rivers harming wildlife Scientists have found further evidence that pet flea treatments are widespread in rivers across the UK.

The year-round use of flea treatments may be poisoning our dogs & cats and is harming wildlife in rivers #waterways -- www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Toxic pet flea treatment chemicals found in Wales' rivers harming wildlife Scientists have found further evidence that pet flea treatments are widespread in rivers across the UK.

The year-round use of flea treatments may be poisoning our dogs & cats and is harming wildlife in rivers #waterways -- www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...