Day: April 24, 2026

Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel’s strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself Shortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple apartment buildings were obliterated, leaving ...

The Mandelson vetting row has reignited questions over the PM’s future just two weeks before crucial elections in Scotland, Wales and England. ...

The Kremlin’s tightening of internet restrictions is fueling discontent across Russia, leading to rare signs of domestic dissent. The country was once very free online, remarkable given President Vladimir Putin’s autocratic rule, but more recently access to global messaging apps has been restricted and the internet has been completely shut ...

US authorities arrested a soldier involved in the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who allegedly bet on the operation’s outcome before it took place, amid growing fears of illicit betting in prediction markets. The special forces soldier is accused of making upwards of $400,000 from betting on the ...

Intel shares jumped 20% on its projected revenue surges from AI data centers. The US chip giant, which last year required a government rescue, has seen a recent revival after years of trailing rival TSMC: Its new manufacturing processes are among the most advanced in the industry, comparable to TSMC’s. ...

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a new open-source model it said would compete with OpenAI’s and Google DeepMind’s advanced products, as China races to catch up to the US on AI. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek took the tech world by storm last year by releasing a model that delivered near industry-leading performance ...

Oil and gas markets — already in turmoil over the Strait of Hormuz closure — will likely face further and lasting disruptions in the months ahead, analysts warned. Iranian attacks on liquefied natural gas facilities in Qatar will result in constrained LNG markets through all of next year, the International ...

Exclusive: Scholars, writers and artists risk arrest with message of support for proscribed group before next week’s appeal hearing UK politics live – latest updates Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg and Brian Eno have written to the court of appeal in support of Palestine Action before next week’s hearing to determine ...

Statement, apparently aimed at Russia and Israel, makes clear it is committed to the defence of human rights The jury of the Venice Biennale has said it would not give awards to artists from countries whose leaders are facing charges of crimes against humanity, in a statement apparently aimed at ...

The political gap between US evangelicals and Catholics is widening. And Trump won’t tolerate authority outside his own “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” Henry II was reputed to have muttered. His knights heard his pointed remark as an order. They rode to confront Thomas Becket, the archbishop ...