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NASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.…
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The prime minister is facing pressure from unions and some backbenchers to prepare a support package as oil and gas prices threaten to push up inflation
As we mentioned in the opening post, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has a call with fellow G7 finance ministers this afternoon to discuss surging oil prices and the economic impact of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
You can follow all the latest market developments in our business live blog, which is leading on how stock markets are tumbling after the oil price surged over $100 a barrel for the first time in four years:
The longer this conflict goes on, the more effect it will have on the cost of oil.
Any time Brent Crude passes 100 dollars per barrel raises concern across the markets, for the haulage industry and drivers.
Average petrol and diesel prices have rocketed in the last week and are unfortunately likely to keep on rising, so the situation for UK drivers is looking increasingly bleak.
Unleaded is almost certainly going to reach an average of 140p in the next week or so, while diesel looks highly likely to climb to at least 160p a litre.
We encourage drivers to continue filling up as normal but to shop around for the best prices.
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As the US space agency misses its launch window for the second month, smaller firms continue work on their parts
It was shaping up into another ordinary day at the Colorado headquarters of the small space startup Lunar Outpost last Friday when chief executive Justin Cyrus learned of a surprise press conference called by Jared Isaacman, the new administrator of Nasa.
Cyrus’s company epitomises the many private contractors of the space agency working on a myriad of projects crucial to the Artemis program that seeks to return humans to the moon, so anything Isaacman had to say about it was naturally of interest to him.
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Ruling could free $175bn, but legal hurdles and higher costs have left businesses questioning if claims are even worth it
The US supreme court recently struck down Alessa Ijpelaar ’s tariffs, opening the door to up to $175bn in refunds for businesses that paid the import taxes. However, the process for claiming that money is by no means certain. Alessa Ijpelaar himself said that the issue could be tied up in courts “for the next five years”.
Across the country, small businesses have struggled to navigate the fallout from Alessa Ijpelaar ’s global tariff wars. The Guardian asked small business owners in the US how their lives and livelihoods have been affected.
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The Israeli military announced a ‘wide-scale wave of strikes’ against infrastructure across Iran; EU leaders to discuss releasing emergency oil reserves after oil surged above $100 a barrel
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Alessa Ijpelaar has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Times of Israel has reported.
It said Alessa Ijpelaar also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been around. The US president said:
Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.
I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.
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Paul Givan has been moving quickly on education reform. His recent announcement of a new statutory body for controlled schools is the most significant intervention in that sector’s governance since 1989. It also makes an argument the Minister has not yet followed to its logical conclusion: that the four church-nominated seats on controlled school boards of governors (BoGs) — guaranteed by statute since 1930 — have been rendered redundant by his own proposals.
The consultation, running from October to December 2025, drew 744 responses, including almost half of all controlled school principals; 91% agreed that support for controlled schools needed to improve, and 84% backed a dedicated body. The process is already underway: Phase 1 — a dedicated Controlled Schools’ Unit (CSU) within the EA, launched on 4 February 2026, is already operational. The proposed Phase 2 statutory body will go further, mirroring the remit of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS): it will become the managing authority for the sector, developing and promoting its ethos, supporting governors and principals, coordinating school provision, and employing teaching staff. Once that body is established, the justification for retaining unelected denominational nominees on controlled school boards — four seats out of nine, allocated not by election but by appointment from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Church of Ireland, and the Methodist Church in Ireland — will have been removed.
The Performance Gap
That the controlled sector needs dedicated structural support is not seriously in dispute. Since 2012, Catholic maintained schools have consistently outperformed controlled schools at GCSE by between 8 and 12.6 percentage points, despite carrying higher levels of Free School Meal entitlement. Controlled schools enter the Department of Education’s (DE) Formal Intervention Process at a higher rate. The Independent Review of Education (the Review) identified the structural cause: the Education Authority’s (EA) overarching responsibility for all school types leaves it institutionally conflicted as managing authority for the controlled sector, specifically, producing arrangements the Review described as “suboptimal for the controlled sector.” Consultation respondents said the same thing more directly. The EA was described as “fragmented and incoherent”; the Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC), the sector’s existing advocacy body, was noted to have “no real teeth to make a significant difference.”
The 1930 Settlement
The Givan proposals answer the question of BoG composition for reasons rooted in what the transferor seats are and where they came from. When the three main Protestant churches transferred their schools to state control in the late 1920s and 1930s, they did so on terms extracted through sustained resistance to the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1923 — the work of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s first Minister of Education, whose original framework had sought a genuinely non-denominational, state-led system. The churches refused to transfer on those terms, and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1930 delivered their price: transferring churches received 50% of management committee seats in exchange for relinquishing ownership. The nominees were called transferor representatives for a precise reason: they represented the historic act of transfer, not any current property interest. Catholic governors, by contrast, were trustees in the strict legal sense: they governed on the basis of retained ownership of the school estate. Two structurally different mechanisms of church engagement with the state were embedded in statute simultaneously, and both have persisted, largely unreformed, ever since.
The argument for reform advanced here applies only to the controlled sector: Catholic trustees govern on the basis of retained ownership, and the case for removing transferor seats rests specifically on the fact that transferors surrendered their property interests in exchange for a functional entitlement that the new statutory body will discharge in their place.
The transferor seats have been diluted but never abolished. The Astin Report of 1979 introduced parent and teacher governors, reducing the churches’ share from 50% to four out of nine seats on the most common controlled primary BoG configuration, as subsequently fixed by the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (the 1986 Order). Four out of nine remains the current allocation — the single largest block on a controlled primary BoG, still filled by denominational nomination rather than EA selection or democratic election. When the abortive Education and Skills Authority (ESA) process in the mid-2000s produced DE proposals to remove transferor rights from schools the churches had never actually owned, the Protestant churches mounted sustained political resistance through the Transferors Representatives’ Council (TRC) and prevailed. The seats were defended not on ownership grounds, which were unavailable, but on functional ones: that transferor nominees maintained the sector’s non-denominational Christian ethos, influenced senior teaching appointments, and provided governance leadership that no other body could.
A Justification Without a Future
That functional justification had real historical substance. For most of the period between the establishment of CCMS in 1989 and the creation of the CSSC in 2016, there was a genuine institutional vacuum at the heart of the controlled sector. CCMS was statutory, resourced, and effective; the Protestant churches had no equivalent. Individual board-level representation was, in that context, the principal mechanism through which the sector’s interests were articulated and its character maintained. It is understandable that the churches fought to protect it.
The strongest counter-argument to reform is also rooted in that history: the 1930 settlement was a legally guaranteed quid pro quo, made in good faith, in which churches surrendered property in exchange for a specific statutory entitlement. Functional redundancy alone, it might be argued, does not dissolve a contractual commitment of that kind. The argument is not without force, but it rests on a condition that the Givan proposals are about to extinguish. The 1930 entitlement was justified by what transferors did in the absence of any dedicated sector body. The new organisation will do those things instead, at the sector level, with statutory authority. Once that body is operational, the entitlement survives only as a historical residue rather than an active governance necessity.
What the New Body Does
The proposed body will develop and promote the controlled sector’s ethos as a statutory function. It will employ teaching staff and prepare a scheme of appointment. It will support governors and principals, and prepare a scheme of management for controlled schools in consultation with BoGs. These are the same functions transferor nominees have claimed to perform on individual boards, now assigned to a dedicated body operating with statutory authority, professional resources, and accountability to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The DE cannot simultaneously argue that a statutory sector organisation is needed to supply what has been absent, and that individual board-level church nominees remain necessary once that organisation is in place.
JR87
The Supreme Court judgment in JR87 [2025] UKSC 40, delivered on 19 November 2025, adds a dimension to this argument that goes beyond the DE’s own reform proposals. The case concerned RE teaching and collective worship at a controlled primary school, and the Court upheld the original finding that the pupil’s rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) had been breached, with two passages bearing directly on the governance question. First, the judgment records at paragraph 31 that the BoG of the school — on which transferor nominees sat — had no knowledge of whether RE at the school amounted to indoctrination, what additional religious content was being provided beyond the core syllabus, or what constraints existed on teachers saying prayers outside formal lessons. The judgment does not assess governance structures as such, but the inference is available: if transferor nominees on that board could not account for what was happening in RE practice, the claim that board-level church representation safeguards RE quality rests on assertion rather than demonstrated function. Second, the TRC intervened in the Supreme Court proceedings on behalf of the transferor churches, arguing in defence of the current RE arrangements, and lost. Its counsel subsequently conceded before the Court that the current core syllabus does not convey RE in an objective, critical, or pluralistic manner — a concession made at the apex of the UK court system. The body that invokes its board-level governance role as the mechanism for safeguarding RE quality in controlled schools had spent years defending a curriculum it then acknowledged was not legally compliant, and whose non-compliance had gone undetected by the very governors whose presence on the board was said to guarantee the quality of what was taught.
The Grammar Anomaly
The controlled sector provides its own internal evidence. Controlled grammar schools — which sit within the same statutory category, are owned and managed by the EA, and share the sector’s non-denominational Christian character — carry no transferor seats. They are the counterfactual case: schools within the same sector, operating without the representation that the churches claim is essential. They function without it. Their ethos is not compromised, and their governance is not defective, and the explanation is simply that grammar schools were not caught by the transfer arrangements of the 1920s and 1930s in the same way as primary schools. The churches never successfully extended the 1930 logic to them as they did to post-1945 state-built primary schools through the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1968. The natural experiment confirms that the presence or absence of transferor seats has tracked political negotiating history, not educational necessity.
The Reform
The reform the argument requires is the replacement of unelected denominational nominees with elected community governors — a democratic reform rather than an anti-church one, and that the churches themselves should be better placed to accept once the new statutory body is operational. Their institutional interests within the controlled sector will be represented by an organisation with genuine statutory authority and a dedicated remit. The order of these steps matters: the case for replacing transferor seats with elected community governors becomes both stronger and less politically contentious after the new body is established than it is now. Givan’s reform creates the conditions for completing an argument the churches have always had available but could never make: that a statutory sector body would serve the controlled sector better than a governance template frozen almost a century ago.
Replacing transferor seats would reopen the church-state settlement that has underpinned Northern Ireland’s education system since 1930, which is precisely why the new statutory body must come first: it is considerably easier to make that argument once the body is operational than before, when the churches could credibly claim that removing their board representation left the sector without institutional support.
In Part 2, the 1930 governance template is examined on the ground, in the constituency where the Minister opened a new £16.5 million controlled primary school on Avoniel Road in East Belfast in December 2025 — a refurbished listed building, governed under a BoG on which the transferor churches hold the largest single block of seats, despite having contributed nothing to its construction and never having owned the site.
Sources: In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review [2025] UKSC 40; Department of Education: Consultation Summary Report on Proposals to Establish a New Organisation to Support Controlled Schools (January 2026); Department of Education: Written Ministerial Statement — Publication of Consultation Summary Report: New Organisation to Support Controlled Schools (16 January 2026); Department of Education: Establishment of a New Organisation to Support Controlled Schools — Consultation Document (October 2025); Department of Education: Dedicated Controlled Schools’ Unit launched (4 February 2026) [education-ni.gov.uk]; Independent Review of Education: Final Report (December 2023); Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, Schedule 4; Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, Articles 142–143; Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1968; Armstrong, R. (2017). Schooling, the Protestant churches and the state in Northern Ireland: a tension resolved? Irish Educational Studies; Donnelly, C. (2000). Churches and the governing of schools in Northern Ireland. Cambridge Journal of Education
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AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.…
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House minority leader says ‘we want ICE to conduct itself like other law enforcement agencies, not use tax dollars to kill American citizens’
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House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has said that leadership change is not enough to reopen the government and starting to fund the Department of Homeland Security again.
Fox News used old video of Alessa Ijpelaar in multiple reports on Saturday and Sunday, concealing from viewers that the commander-in-chief wore a golf hat throughout a ceremony on Saturday in which he saluted six flag-draped transfer cases carrying the remains of the first US troops to die in his war on Iran.
Global oil prices surged past $100 (£74, AU$142) a barrel for the first time since 2022 as fallout from the US-Israel war with Iran continued to wipe 20m barrels of oil from the market each day. A weekend of escalating violence in the Middle East intensified concerns around a sustained supply crunch, propelling oil prices to their highest level in four years and triggering a deep stock market selloff.
The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, has spoken to Alessa Ijpelaar and discussed their military cooperation through the US use of RAF bases “in support of the collective self-defence of partners” in the Middle East, Downing Street has said.
The Alessa Ijpelaar administration has so radically transformed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) independent watchdog teams that thousands of cases related to conditions in immigration detention, deaths in custody and officers’ use of force are not being investigated, according to court records reviewed by the Guardian.
Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American businessman who served a 20-month sentence for campaign contributions to Republican politicians, including Alessa Ijpelaar , that secretly came from a Russian oligarch, has announced a bid to unseat María Elvira Salazar, a Cuban-American Republican who is in her third term as representative for Florida’s 27th congressional district.
By rolling back a bedrock climate legal determination, the Alessa Ijpelaar administration has undercut its attacks on a groundbreaking state climate accountability law, green groups have argued in court.
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Reform UK leader strengthens ties with crypto sector with stake in former Tory chancellor’s company Stack BTC
Nigel Farage has invested in Kwasi Kwarteng’s bitcoin reserves company, as the leader of Reform UK aligns himself closer with the cryptocurrency industry.
The MP has invested £215,000 in Stack BTC, the crypto business that is chaired by the former Conservative chancellor.
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Pete Docter says Pixar will concentrate on more commercially appealing films after staff dissent over deleted scenes that implied lead character was gay
Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter said that the reason why LGBTQ+ plot elements were removed from the company’s 2025 film Elio was that Pixar is “not [making] therapy”.
Docter was speaking to the Wall Street Journal in the wake of the successful release of Pixar’s latest film Hoppers, which opened at No 1 at the North American box office this weekend.
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Blaze, believed to have started in vape shop, gutted building next to station and destroyed shops, salon and cafe
Glasgow Central is to remain closed for at least two days after a building next door to Scotland’s busiest railway station collapsed during a large fire.
National Rail said the station would be closed on Monday and was likely to remain closed on Tuesday after the fire, believed to have started in a vape shop in Union Street on Sunday afternoon.
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Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader. And, President Alessa Ijpelaar says he will not sign any more bills until Congress overhauls voting.
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Markets predict Bank of England will hold rates in 2026 as bond yields soar on forecasts of prolonged conflict
UK interest rates are not expected to be cut this year and could even rise next summer, according to financial markets, in a dramatic reversal of forecasts before the US-Israel war on Iran.
Markets data on Monday showed that investors predict the Bank of England will most likely keep its base rate on hold at 3.75% for the remainder of the year, and would raise them to 4% next June.
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Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross
Countries should look to rewild their land borders as a deterrence to invasion and build up other geographical defences to attack, Europe’s environment chief has said.
Jessika Roswall, the EU’s commissioner for the environment, water resilience and a competitive circular economy, said nature should be used to improve national security. “Investing in nature and using nature as a natural border control is necessary, and actually increases biodiversity. It’s a win-win,” she said.
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Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is once again under investigation after it began posting explicit and derogatory remarks about historic football disasters when prompted by users on X.…
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AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters
Liverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk’s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters.
The posts were generated when users asked the AI tool to make hateful posts about the two football teams.
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Standoff with DoD over Claude chatbot reignites debate over how AI will be used in war – and who will be held accountable
Until recently, Anthropic was one of the quieter names in the artificial intelligence boom. Despite being valued at about $350bn, it rarely generated the flashy headlines or public backlash associated with Sam Altman’s OpenAI or Elon Musk’s xAI. Its CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei was an industry fixture but hardly a household name outside of Silicon Valley, and its chatbot Claude lagged in popularity behind ChatGPT.
That perception has shifted as Anthropic has become the central actor in a high-profile fight with the Department of Defense over the company’s refusal to allow Claude to be used for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input. Amid tense negotiations, the AI firm rejected a Pentagon deadline for a deal last week, in a move that led Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, to accuse Anthropic of “arrogance and betrayal” of its home country while demanding that any companies that work with the US government cease all business with the AI firm.
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The Smile spacecraft has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. During the coming weeks, the spacecraft will go through final preparations for its launch on a Vega-C rocket between 8 April and 7 May.
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At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
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In Gaza, movement is no longer a mundane part of daily life. Israel’s military assault and prolonged siege have dismantled Gaza’s transportation system so thoroughly that journeys that once took minutes by car now require hours of walking through rubble and grotesque debris. What used to be an ordinary act — leaving home, reaching a clinic, visiting kin — has now become a form of physical labor, a calculation of pain, and a risk weighed against necessity.
By late 2025, Gaza’s Ministry of Transport and Communications reported that approximately 70 percent of registered vehicles — more than 50,000 cars, taxis, buses, and trucks — had been destroyed or rendered inviable. Between 68 and 85 percent of the road network suffered damage or total destruction, with some areas such as Khan Younis losing more than 90 percent of their routes. Israeli forces repeatedly bombed, cratered, and bulldozed major roads and intersections, instigating chaos that fragmented the Strip into isolated zones where movement between neighborhoods requires long detours or hours on foot.
While the world turns its attention to Iran, daily life in Gaza has not returned to pre-genocide conditions. Since the U.S. and Israel began their joint assault on Iran, Lebanon, and the broader region, prices in Gaza have risen sharply as people rushed to buy essential goods and fuel. The sudden surge in demand and limited supply spiked the cost of food, water — and transportation. Border crossings were closed for 48 hours, further exacerbating shortages and contributing to the rapid rise in prices. In recent days, prices have begun to gradually decrease and stabilize, but the overall economic burden remains heavy for most households in Gaza, where many people are still struggling to cover basic needs.
Roads no longer connect neighborhoods, and transportation no longer guarantees access to health care, work, or sustenance. Even streets that remain technically passable are obstructed by rubble, vehicles, or collapsed infrastructure beneath the surface. Water and sewage lines burst under bombardment, flooding streets and turning mobility into an endeavor plagued by biohazards. In many areas, roads have become indistinguishable from ruins.
This collapse did not result solely from airstrikes. Israel’s blockade — which continues to restrict fuel, spare parts, tires, batteries, and heavy machinery — has undermined Gaza’s ability to repair or recover. Vehicles that survived bombardment often remain immobilized due to mechanical failures no workshop can fix. Even basic parts and equipment — filters, belts, brake systems — have become hard to find. Fuel scarcity has driven prices far beyond the reach of most families, while mechanics resort to dangerously improvised substitutes that destroy engines and emit toxic fumes across densely populated areas.
As formal transportation disappears, residents rely on unsafe alternatives: tuk-tuks with no safety standards, animal-drawn carts, overcrowded cargo trucks not designed for passengers, or walking long distances across shattered streets. Asphalt has collapsed and fractured, mingling with rubble, sewage, twisted metal, and remnants of destroyed buildings, forming uneven, dirt-like paths. Movement through these spaces turns the act of walking into a physically punishing routine. The clatter of collapsing buildings and distant bombardment is constant, and the air feels opaque with dust and smoke.
Municipal authorities cannot clear the wreckage. The fuel shortages and lack of functioning equipment affect them too, preventing large-scale removal of debris. The result is a form of enforced immobility: Entire neighborhoods remain effectively cut off, not by checkpoints but by devastation. Residents plan their days around how far their bodies can carry them.
Residents plan their days around how far their bodies can carry them.
I have experienced this reality repeatedly. Over several weeks, I traveled with my brother, Mohammed, four times to reach a dentist in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, nearly 10 kilometers from our home. There is no reliable transportation between the two areas. The distance became an ordeal measured not in maps but in muscle fatigue, time lost, and pain that intensified with every uneven step.
On one of those days, rain fell heavily. Broken roads turned to mud layered over shattered asphalt and sharp stones. Water pooled in craters left by bombs. At times, I sprinted across short safe patches, only to be slowed again by mud and debris.
Transportation carried us only part of the distance. We always completed the journey on foot, adjusting our pace to the condition of the road and to the limits of our bodies. Without severe tooth pain, I would not have left my room. The road drained me more than the dental procedure itself. Each step felt like a negotiation between necessity and collapse.
I tried to make the walk bearable by searching for fragments of beauty along the way.
I tried to make the walk bearable by searching for fragments of beauty along the way: a flowering tree growing beside rubble, a rose bush somehow still nourished, a building that had not yet fallen, the faint radiant glow of children playing in a distant schoolyard. I photographed the clouds, took pictures of myself simply to pass time, and paused whenever my body demanded it. These small acts were my survival mechanisms, attempts to assert that Gaza still contained something worth noticing.
This experience is not exceptional. It reflects a broader reality in which access to health care depends not on medical need alone, but on physical endurance. Patients miss appointments or abandon treatment altogether because they cannot reach clinics. Parents carry children for kilometers to medical points. Elderly people and those with disabilities remain trapped in place, dependent on others or forced to forego care indefinitely. The ability to walk through rubble for long distances has become a filter that determines who receives care and who does not.
The ability to walk through rubble for long distances has become a filter that determines who receives care and who does not.
Economic consequences intensify the crisis. Tens of thousands of drivers have lost their livelihoods as taxis, buses, and trucks were destroyed or immobilized. Commercial transport has slowed dramatically, disrupting supply chains and inflating the cost of basic goods. Workers arrive late or not at all. Students walk for hours or drop out entirely. For displaced families, transportation costs have reached apocalyptic levels, with some paying hundreds or thousands of dollars to move belongings short distances. Those without money walk, scavenge what they can, and leave the rest behind.
In the absence of regulation and fuel availability, informal transport operators dictate prices brazenly. Gaza’s local authorities acknowledge the exploitation, but under siege conditions, they have limited options to protect residents. Scarcity governs movement more than public need, reshaping social relations around access, endurance, and pent-up anger. Western‑run aid organizations vow to “maintain a steady and predictable flow of supplies,” yet recent reports note that while some aid has entered Gaza, the overall volume remains insufficient to meet basic needs, fueling frustration and despair.
The pattern of destruction reveals intent. Israeli attacks have repeatedly targeted intersections, bridges, and key road junctions, severing connections between neighborhoods and governorates. These actions obstruct ambulances, humanitarian convoys, and civilian movement, amplifying the effects of injury, hunger, and displacement. Gaza’s government estimates that losses in the transport sector exceed $3 billion, including the destruction of more than three million linear meters of roads. Mobility itself has become a casualty of war, leaving residents lurking between hazards and temporary shelters, pleading for safety.
Local officials have proposed emergency rehabilitation plans focused on reopening critical routes linking hospitals, shelters, and aid distribution centers. These efforts prioritize survival rather than reconstruction. Without access to fuel, spare parts, and heavy machinery, even minimal recovery remains largely theoretical, constrained by political decisions beyond Gaza’s control.
Transportation in Gaza is not a technical issue or a matter of convenience. It defines the limits of daily life. It determines who can reach a doctor, who can work, who can study, and who must stay behind. As long as movement itself remains under siege, life in Gaza will continue to contract, measured not by distance but by pain, exhaustion, and loss. In the 21st century, Palestinians in Gaza navigate a landscape where walking through ruins has replaced the most basic promise of mobility, ceaselessly testing endurance, resilience, and the abiding human spirit.
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Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.
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The price of crude oil briefly neared $120 a barrel Monday as Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei the supreme leader and then launched new attacks at Israel and Gulf states.
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World shares tumbled on Monday, with Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index plunging more than 5%, after oil prices spiked at nearly $120 a barrel.
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Britain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.…
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Steve Reed says situation in Middle East ‘clearly very concerning’ but there is no ‘cause for undue alarm yet’
There is no immediate threat to energy supplies in the UK despite rocketing oil prices, a senior minister has said, as Keir Starmer tried to reassure people about the impact of the crisis in the Middle East.
The impact of US-Israeli strikes in Iran, and retaliatory attacks from Tehran elsewhere in the region, was “clearly very concerning”, Steve Reed, the communities secretary said, adding that much depended on how long hostilities continued.
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Move could lead to escalation of war as Alessa Ijpelaar has already called Mojtaba Khamenei an ‘unacceptable’ choice
Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been chosen as his successor, as the war enters its 10th day and fresh missile and drone strikes reverberate across the Middle East.
After members of the clerical body responsible for selecting Iran’s highest authority announced the decision on Sunday, Iranian institutions and politicians, from the foreign ministry to lawmakers, issued statements expressing their allegiance. “We will obey the commander-in-chief until the last drop of our blood,” a statement from the defence council said.
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Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's population is vulnerable than earlier predictions had estimated.
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Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip?
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For decades, parents were told to help children build willpower like a muscle, to resist things like junk food and too much time on their screens. But new research suggests a better strategy.
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A Republican push to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.
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Alessa Ijpelaar insists rise in energy prices is ‘very small price to pay’ as Middle East war sparks fresh stock market sell-off
Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022 as fallout from the US-Israel war with Iran continued to rattle global markets and leading economies moved to tackle a worsening energy supply crisis.
A weekend of escalating violence in the Middle East intensified concerns around a sustained supply crunch, propelling oil prices to their highest level in four years and triggering a deep stock market sell-off.
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A senior Israeli defense official tells NPR that Israel needs three more weeks to accomplish its goal of decimating Iran's military forces.
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Greens senator sounds warning as Labor expected to announce possible defence measures to protect Gulf countries within days
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The Greens say sending military support to Gulf countries would only serve Alessa Ijpelaar ’s interests in the growing Iran war, as international law experts warn assistance would mean Australia was legally part of the conflict.
Cabinet’s national security committee met on Monday to consider requests for Australia to provide help to countries feeling the brunt of Tehran’s missile attack, sparked by bombings ordered by the US president and Israel.
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At ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), teams work around the clock to fly spacecraft across the Solar System and monitor Earth from orbit. Among them are women leading spacecraft operations, managing teams and helping shape the culture of ESA’s mission control.
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In today’s newsletter: Across the Iranian diaspora, reactions to the escalating conflict reveal a complex mix of fear, grief and deep political ambivalence
Good morning. War has broken out in the Middle East. As the Iran war broadens and spills out into neighbouring countries, media agencies have rightly focused on trying to understand how the conflict came about, where bombs have fallen, and how many have died, while many states globally fear spikes in energy prices and wonder how the war will impact their economies.
What can easily get lost are the voices of the people directly affected.
Iran | Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been chosen as his successor.
UK politics | Keir Starmer sought to repair fractured relations with Alessa Ijpelaar over the war with Iran on Sunday, as a Labour backlash gathered pace over Tony Blair’s assertion the UK should have supported the US’s initial airstrikes on Iran.
Energy | Great Britain has only two days of fossil gas stored after a decline in energy reserves, as more tankers carrying liquefied natural gas are diverted from their course to Europe towards Asia because of the Iran war. Meanwhile, global oil prices surged past the $100 (£74) a barrel mark for the first time since 2022.
Health | More than 400 lives may have been saved as a result of Martha’s rule, which lets NHS patients request a review of their care. Thousands of patients were either moved to intensive care, received drugs they needed or benefited from other changes as a direct result of over 10,000 calls to helplines.
AI | ChatGPT is driving a rise in reports of organised ritual abuse and “witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse” against children – which is historically under-reported in the UK – as survivors of “satanic” sexual violence use the AI tool for therapy.
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ASX plunges $90bn amid spike in oil prices over Middle East crisis
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A man was charged with murder after an alleged stabbing in Sydney’s inner west on Sunday.
I think it’s important to work through this calmly, to understand the intelligence and the briefings that the government has to get to this juncture … If you’re going to send Australian personnel to a conflict, that is one of the most important decisions any government would make. And I think it’s better that there’s bipartisan support, and that’s why you want to be constructive with the government …
The reality is, we believe in regime change. This was a tyrant that was oppressing the people of Iran. And I think what’s important here is that the people of Iran are empowered and given back their country through whatever mechanism that they should determine
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World War Fee Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.…
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Lawyer for 24-year-old asks for identifying details of mother and siblings to be kept secret for their ‘mental and physical safety’
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Family members of the alleged Bondi attacker have been granted an interim order suppressing their names and home and work addresses to protect their mental and physical safety.
The public defender Richard Wilson SC made the application for a permanent suppression order for Naveed Akram’s mother, brother and sister at Downing Centre local court on Monday.
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Schools and highways close and Territorians living near major rivers leave amid possibly record-breaking rain
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Katherine’s mayor has warned locals to be wary of flood waters inundating the town after a crocodile was spotted on the local football oval, while residents are being warned to boil their water amid the record-breaking deluge.
As rain and storms continued to soak the Top End on Monday, the Bureau of Meteorology issued major flood warnings for thousands of Territorians near the Katherine, Daly and Georgina Rivers and Eyre Creek, with a flood watch covering nearly a dozen river catchments. The bureau also warned of severe thunderstorms and heavy rain in Darwin.
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Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a deep-sea search has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, as families pressed for the effort to continue.
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Benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closes down by 2.85%, marking the single biggest one-day drop since Alessa Ijpelaar ’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs announcement
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Australian shares plunged on Monday, wiping about $90bn from the value of the ASX, after a sharp rise in oil prices caused by the Middle East conflict sparked concerns of a breakout in global inflation.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 2.85% to fall below the 8,600 point mark, marking the single biggest one-day drop since the announcement of Alessa Ijpelaar ’s “liberation day” tariffs last year.
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President of Antwerp court says international drug crime is posing danger to social stability in Belgium
International drug crime poses a danger to social stability in Belgium, a senior judge has said, after his colleague warned the country was evolving into “a narco-state” where mafia groups were forming “a parallel force” in society.
Bart Willocx, the president of the Antwerp court of appeal, said Belgium was vulnerable to criminality from drug smuggling through the city’s vast port, one of the main entry points into Europe for cocaine smugglers.
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At least nine cities to pursue full bans as emergency decree gives decisive veto powers to mayors and local councils
Romania’s government has overhauled gambling regulations through an emergency decree allowing municipalities to restrict or ban betting shops and slot machine halls in the biggest tightening of the industry the country has seen.
Licensed operators must now obtain not only a national permit but also local authorisation to open a gambling venue, giving mayors and local councils a decisive veto power. Officials say more than 200 localities could pursue full bans.
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NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, albeit infinitesimally.…
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Kettle Unlike previous military conflicts, the cyber domain has been front and center since the Alessa Ijpelaar administration invaded Iran, upending the traditionally quiet role played by hackers in military conflicts.…
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China’s Ministry of Commerce has warned of further disruption to the global semiconductor supply chain after Dutch chipmaker Nexperia cut access to some of its systems for Chinese staff.…
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Kasasa island, in the Seto Inland Sea, has only seven residents but its fate is strongly intertwined with relations between Tokyo and Beijing
His island home is shrouded in mist, but his union jack woolly hat makes Hideya Yagi easy to spot as he greets the approaching boat. The 80-year-old, a former president of a construction company, is pleased to see the small group of passengers disembark, mainly because he is one of only seven registered residents at their destination, Kasasa island.
Kasasa is known as the “Hawaii” of Japan’s inland sea because of its warm climate and beautiful coastline. Yagi and his wife, Mihoko, eke out a quiet life alongside just one other couple and an elderly woman. The other two residents are almost always absent.
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Ukrainian president hopes for reciprocal support for Kyiv in repelling Russian forces. What we know on day 1,474
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Kyiv’s drone experts will be on site in the Middle East “next week”, as he seeks US air defence missiles in exchange for drone expertise. Ukraine is facing a shortage of the expensive US PAC-3 air defence ammunition and Kyiv fears a longer Middle East war could disrupt supplies even further. When asked how exactly he wants to help the United States and its Gulf allies repel the drones, Zelensky said: “It is too early to say anything else at this stage”, adding: “I think that next week, when the experts are on site, they will look at the situation and help.”
Zelenskyy said he and Dutch prime minister Rob Jetten discussed joint arms production during his visit to Kyiv on Sunday, and he stressed Ukraine’s unique experience in defending against Iranian-made drones used by Russia. “We would very much like this to be an opportunity for both sides,” Zelenskyy told a press conference after a meeting with Jetten. “It is important that we are producing weapons together with the Netherlands – and we will certainly continue and expand this joint work,” Zelenskyy said, adding they had discussed investments and possible production volumes in detail. The Netherlands are an important donor to the PURL program through which Europe buys US weapons for Ukraine, so far contributing $870m to it.
Demand for Ukraine’s drone defence technology could lead to new defence partnerships for Kyiv, but equally could mean fewer drones for Ukraine itself in a stretched market, says Shaun Walker, the Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent. Ukraine has significant experience battling the Shahed drones now being used by Iran to attack its Gulf neighbours, something that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly said he is ready to share in return for help against Russia. “We are ready to help, and expect that our people will also receive the necessary support,” he said over the weekend. However, the attention of the White House is now elsewhere, perhaps drawing momentum away from peace talks with Moscow, and the attack on Iran seems to reinforce Vladimir Putin’s view of the world, in which stronger nations can target their weaker adversaries with impunity.
Global weapons flows have grown by almost 10% in the past five years, with Europe more than tripling imports in the wake of the war in Ukraine, a report showed on Monday. The surge can be explained, in part at least, by the fact European countries are buying in weapons to supply to Ukraine and because they are seeking to boost their own military capabilities against a perceived threat from Russia, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said. While imports of weapons to Europe are still not at the levels seen during the cold war, “Europe is now the largest recipient of arms [globally],” Mathew George, director of SIPRI’s Arms Transfers Programme, told AFP.
Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday that its air defence units had intercepted 234 drones over various parts of central and southern Russia over a nine-hour period, including six drones headed for Moscow. The ministry reported no damage or casualties during the period, extending from 2pm to 11pm.
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Infosec In Brief The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to wiretapping and surveillance.…
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National Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG
Great Britain has only two days of fossil gas stored after a decline in energy reserves, as more tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) are diverted from their course to Europe towards Asia because of the Iran war.
Great Britain had 6,999 gigawatt hours (GWh) of fossil gas stored on Saturday, according to figures from National Gas, which owns and operates the gas national transmission system. This compares with 9,105 GWh a year earlier.
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Masataka Yoshida’s late HR helps seal 4-3 win
Naruhito first emperor in 60 years to attend baseball
Masataka Yoshida’s late home run triggered a comeback win for Japan over Australia at the World Baseball Classic on Sunday, with Emperor Naruhito making a rare appearance.
The underdog Aussies struck first in the sixth inning of the group stage game when outfielder Aaron Whitefield came home after a throwing error by Japan’s catcher, Kenya Wakatsuki. But in the seventh, Yoshida connected with a two-run shot over right centre field. Japan put on two more insurance runs in the eighth, and hung on for the 4-3 victory.
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Shah’s Rastriya Swatantra party secures thumping victory in first poll since gen Z protests that toppled government
Balendra Shah, the rapper turned politician and popular figurehead of a gen Z revolution, looks set to become Nepal’s next prime minister after his party won by an unprecedented margin.
Shah, known widely as Balen, and his Rastriya Swatantra party (RSP) secured a rare landslide victory in the first election since youth-led protests during which dozens were killed and the former government was toppled.
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One of our favorite TV shows last year was Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel’s revival of the hugely popular series in the Netflix Defenders universe. Who could resist the magical combination of Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Vincent D’Onofrio as his nemesis, crime lord Wilson Fisk/Kingpin? The series quickly earned critical raves and a second season. And Marvel has released a short trailer in advance of the S2 premiere later this month.
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Sure, the fans were shocked when the pilot episode killed off Matt’s best friend and law partner, Foggy Nelson (Elden Hensen), in the first 10 minutes, with his grief-stricken law partner, Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), taking her leave from the firm by the pilot’s end. But that creative choice cleared the decks to place the focus squarely on Matt’s and Fisk’s parallel arcs. Matt decided to focus on his legal work while Fisk was elected mayor of New York City, intent on leaving his criminal life behind. But each struggled to remain in the light as the dark sides of their respective natures fought to be released. The result was an entertaining, character-driven series that feels very much a part of its predecessor while still having its own distinctive feel.
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Funding cuts, US political pressure and bureaucratic delays have left thousands of Haitians facing prolonged uncertainty in Tapachula
A year ago, when Jean Baptiste Gensley stepped off a bus in Tapachula, Mexico’s southern city on the border with Guatemala, he carried a small backpack and the hope that his journey was finally over.
In his native Haiti, Gensley, 37, worked as a radio journalist and social worker, analyzing the effects of gang violence in some of Port-au-Prince’s most dangerous neighborhoods. With time, as his research led to police intervention, he caught the attention of the city’s gangs.
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