NewsFeed Pro-Palestine activists have broken into a UK factory where they said drones were being made for Israel’s military. The group, People Against Genocide said they were ‘taking direct action to shut Elbit down and disrupt the murderous Israeli war machine’. Published On 24 Apr 202624 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social media…
European stocks are set for a downbeat end to the week amid continued concerns about the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. It follows a negative session for Wall Street, which bled into Asia , although Taiwan’s TAIEX outperformed, boosted by TSMC shares hitting a record high. U.S. futures were tentatively higher on Friday, with a rebound in tech…
The UK’s position on the Falklands is resolute and unchanging, Downing Street has insisted, after a leaked Pentagon internal email proposed the US should reassess its support for Britain’s claim to the islands because of a lack of support over Iran. Keir Starmer’s spokesperson did not push back against the likely veracity of the email…
A new study of frontier models on Kalshi and Polymarket finds consistent losses, even as early signs suggest more autonomous systems could eventually outperform human bettors. Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket have roared into the public consciousness, drawing scrutiny from regulators and politicians. They’ve also captured the imagination of social media users, some of whom…
The fallout from an ambassadorial appointment like no other threatens even worse procedural ‘sludge’ in Whitehall
From Oslo onwards, talks have unfolded alongside illegal settlement expansion, turning diplomacy into a process that manages, rather than ends, occupation. Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and political analyst. Published On 24 Apr 202624 Apr 2026 ListenListen (5 mins) Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Back in the early 2000s,…
FILE PHOTO: Psilocybin or “magic mushrooms” are seen in an undated photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Washington, U.S. May 7, 2019. DEA | Reuters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced a series of measures aimed at accelerating the development of psychedelic treatments for serious mental illness. That…
Young people may not even realise they have been victims of stalking, the Crown Prosecution Service has said as it launched a scheme to tackle a rise in offending. The number of stalking offences charged by the CPS in England and Wales reached a record high last year of 7,168. More than 80% of these…
Stem cells could make good on the promise of partial reprogramming for rejuvenation therapies KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy I’ve covered the ageing field for many years and seen a lot of promising rejuvenation therapies get hyped up then fall flat on their faces. Ground zero for this repeated cycle was resveratrol, a natural compound once…
The president is applauding companies that don’t claim a tariff refund. But putting the administration over customers is a shortsighted way to do business. Earlier this week, in a live interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, President Donald Trump was asked for his reaction to reports that Apple, Amazon, and some other companies had not filed…
