A wave of demonstrations have swept the Canary Islands as locals protested against a tourism model they say has plundered the environment, priced them out of housing and forced them into precarious work. The seven main Canary Islands are home to 2.2 million people – and welcomed almost 14 million...
The family of a missing high school student who may have been the first victim of a suspected serial killer in Mexico City have protested at the site where bones were found last week. The bones were discovered with the belongings of at least six women, police said, and Amairany Roblero’s relatives...
A British tourist is in intensive care after being attacked by a shark in Trinidad and Tobago. The incident has prompted the government of southeastern Caribbean nation to shut seven beaches and a marine park. The attack occurred at Turtle Beach along Great Courland Bay on Tobago with the closure includ...
In the nation of ‘Cade Mile Failte’ (a hundred thousand welcomes), the residents of Coolock want to shut the door. They’ve set up an anti-immigrant camp in the north Dublin suburb, outside a disused factory earmarked to house asylum seekers. With green, white and orange, they’re...
Joe Biden has said he would be open to debate his presumptive Republican opponent Donald Trump ahead of November’s presidential election. The US president was speaking to radio host Howard Stern on Sirius XM, who asked Mr Biden if he would debate Mr Trump, to which he said: “I am, somewhere....
Israel’s security minister, controversial far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, has been taken to hospital with minor injuries after a car accident, police have said. Video on social media showed the car Mr Ben-Gvir was travelling in had flipped over. Police said they were investigating the circum...
The trial of Andrew Tate, the social media influencer accused of human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, can go ahead, a court in Romania has said. Friday’s ruling by a court in Bucharest comes almost 10 months since he and his brother Tristan were first cha...
A baby girl rescued from the womb of her dying mother in a Gaza hospital has died, the child’s uncle has said. Sabreen Jouda was born prematurely in Rafah on Sunday shortly after her mother, Sabreen al Sakani, died in an Israeli airstrike, which also killed her father Shoukri, and four-year-old si...
Pepper spray flying, protestors shoved to the ground, flames leaping in the background as chants of “shame on you” filled the night air. The scenes in Newtownmountkennedy in County Wicklow won’t have come as much of a surprise to many. It’s just the latest manifestation of a grow...
A high school athletics director has been accused of using AI to create a fake recording of the principal going on a racist and antisemitic rant. Dazhon Darien allegedly impersonated Eric Eiswert’s voice with artificial intelligence, in a clip that went viral and was widely shared on social media....
Former Home and Away star Orpheus Pledger has been arrested following a three-day police manhunt for the actor, according to Australian media reports. The 30-year-old was due to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday accused of assaulting a woman, Sky News Australia said. The actor had been gr...
There’s a trade war brewing between China and the West, at stake is who will dominate the global market for electric vehicles. Outside the port city of Ningbo, Chinese car company Zeekr is rolling out luxury EVs and growing fast. The factory has only been up and running for three years, but this y...
The extraordinary, unprecedented and largely unexplained flows of millions of pounds of British luxury cars into states neighbouring Russia continued in February, according to new official data. Some £26m worth of British cars were exported to Azerbaijan in February, according to data from HM Revenue...
Two courts aren’t enough – not for Donald Trump, not on a Thursday. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been modified or edited by Doonited Source link
Donald Trump managed a partial victory in the Supreme Court today, as justices delayed any potential decision on his immunity case over election riots. Trump argued on Thursday he has total immunity over the 2020 riots and while justices in the Supreme Court were not convinced by his arguments, some rai...
The Italian government sent an ambulance in a military plane to remove a newborn baby from a hospital in Bristol in a highly unusual move after the boy’s parents said doctors were unable to do anything more for the child. The infant, less than a month old, has not been named. Sky News understands...
Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for rape has been overturned, with a New York court ordering a new trial in the landmark “MeToo” case. The state’s highest court found the judge at the trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including...
A sweetener used in drinks, sauces, savoury and sweet foods and chewing gum can cause serious damage to people’s health, according to a new study. Neotame, a “relatively new” sweetener, could damage the intestine by causing damage to healthy bacteria in the gut, according to the study,...
Dozens of whales have died after several pods washed up on the shore of a beach on the Western Australian coast. Marine wildlife experts including wildlife officers, marine scientists and veterinarians tried frantically to save the pilot whales stranded on Thursday in shallow waters at Toby Inlet in Geo...
Visitors to Venice are being charged to enter the Italian city from today, under a controversial scheme. Authorities say the pilot programme is designed to discourage tourists and thin the crowds that throng the canals during peak holiday season, making the city more liveable for residents. Signs advisi...
The windmill blades of the Moulin Rouge, the most famous cabaret club in Paris, have fallen off. The red blades, part of the windmill mounted on the roof of the iconic Paris building, fell to the ground overnight in the early hours of Thursday. “The Moulin Rouge, in 135 years of history, has exper...
Chaos engulfed campuses across the United States as pro-Palestinian student protests spread to universities across the length and breadth of this country. A movement which started at Columbia University on the east coast has now spread to the north, south and west. At the University of Southern Califor...
Military forces in Burkina Faso have been accused of massacring 223 civilians – including babies – in attacks on two villages. The mass killings allegedly took place on 25 February in the north of the conflict-torn West African nation, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Some 56 children...
More than half of the world’s population could be at risk of catching diseases transmitted by mosquitoes such as malaria and dengue by the end of the century, scientists have warned. Mosquito-borne outbreaks, driven by global warming, will spread to parts of northern Europe and other regions of th...
Deep below Jerusalem, Israeli doctors are preparing for the worst. Sky News has been given exclusive access to an underground hospital where they are expanding capacity in case the current conflict becomes much worse. In a bunker below the Herzog Medical Centre, the number of beds has been increased to...
The parents of an Israeli hostage have told him “we love you, stay strong, survive” after he appeared with part of his arm missing in a video released by Hamas. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped at the Nova musical festival when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October. The video shows him with h...
Devastating flooding has struck east Africa, with extreme rainfall wreaking havoc across several countries. Recent weeks have seen dozens of deaths in the region related to torrential rainfall, which is set to peak in the coming days. The situation has worsened so much that last week, Burundi – on...
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested by anti-terrorism police in France after he allegedly said on social media he wanted to “die a martyr” at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. A spokesperson said on Wednesday the boy was arrested after he “publicly announced on social media that...
A US woman has become the first person in the world to undergo a pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted. Lisa Pisano’s combination of heart and kidney failure had left her too ill to qualify for a traditional transplant. The 54-year-old, from New Jersey, b...
Shipping traffic through the vital Suez Canal artery in Egypt has plunged by 66% since cargo was forced to divert due to attacks on vessels, according to official figures. The data, from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), covered the period from mid-December to the beginning of April....
The drive into the village of Jiljiliya is not what you expect on the West Bank. Imposing mansions line the route, with grand gates and lavish decorations. That’s because this is where Palestinian Americans return to build their dream homes after years of hard work in the land of opportunity. Like...
Three men have been arrested after the deaths of five people – including a seven-year-old girl – who were attempting to cross the English Channel. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has said it is supporting the French investigation into the deaths. The men arrested were two Sudanese nationals...
Police in Australia have arrested seven teenagers who posed an “unacceptable risk and threat” to the community in the wake of the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church. The teenagers, all aged between 15 and 17, are accused of being part of a network that follows a violent extremist ideolo...
The Senate has passed $95bn (£76.2bn) in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after months of delays and rows – with Joe Biden set to sign the legislation later. The bill passed the Senate on an overwhelming 79-18 vote late on Tuesday after the House had approved the package on Saturday. Once sig...
Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, a frontier town along the border with Myanmar, is a harrowing window into a civil war that has suddenly escalated. In the searing heat of early morning, the wards are packed full of patients, some with catastrophic injuries. We walk into a room full of amputees, many recently...
Plenty of people have died on small boats trying to cross the Channel. But this was different. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been modified or edited by Doonited Sourc...
A newspaper chief was Donald Trump’s “eyes and ears” and killed unfavourable stories about him in the run-up to the 2016 election, a court has heard. Trump has made history as the first former US president to face a criminal trial. He stands accused of paying hush money to porn star St...
The UN’s human rights chief has said he is “horrified” by reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies in Gaza. Palestinian authorities said they were uncovered at Nasser hospital in the central city of Khan Younis, and at al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Some had their hands ti...
Israel has denied accusations that it buried Palestinians in a mass grave, following the discovery of more than 300 bodies in the courtyard of a Gaza Strip hospital. Karima al-Ras went to the mass grave at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis to look for her son Ahmad. “I lost my son two months ago,...
The Irish premier has apologised on behalf of the state over the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire in which 48 people died. A decades-long fight for justice culminated last week in an inquest finding that they had all been unlawfully killed in the Dublin tragedy. Taoiseach Simon Harris said the state had fai...
More than 100 students and staff were arrested at New York University (NYU) last night as protests around the Israel-Hamas war reached a boiling point. Recent days have seen an escalation of long-running largely pro-Palestinian protests in some of the country’s most prestigious educational establi...
An air defence radar was struck during the Israeli strike on Iran last week, new satellite photos suggest. Tehran has played down the impact of Israel’s attack near a major military airbase and a nuclear site in the central city of Isfahan. It followed Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone...
Dramatic footage of a boat chase has been released by Spanish police as officers seized a huge haul of drugs and arrested more than 60 people. Spain’s Guardia Civil has shared footage showing one of its speed boats pursuing a vessel during the operation to tackle drug trafficking. The force said 6...
A Belgian man has been cleared of drink driving after doctors confirmed he had an extremely rare condition which causes his body to produce large amounts of alcohol. The 40-year-old was found to have auto-brewery syndrome (ABS) – a condition where intoxicating levels of ethanol are produced in the...
A man allegedly stealing from a Barcelona restaurant was caught after he attempted the theft in front of a group of off-duty British police officers on a stag do, an officer has said. Metropolitan Police Sergeant Eren Emin, 30, said he was in the Spanish city with four other police officers when a man j...
Five migrants have died during an attempt to cross the English Channel, French police have said. The French coastguard confirmed there was a failed attempt to cross the Channel and police were operating at a beach following the incident on Tuesday morning. The spokesperson said there were several...
Ten people have died after two helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade. The incident took place at the Malaysian navy’s Lumut Base – 100 miles (160km) northwest of the capital Kuala Lumpur – at around 9.30am local time. The crash involved an...
Rishi Sunak is to announce a £500m military aid package to Ukraine in its war against Russia alongside the UK’s largest provision of munitions so far. Some 400 vehicles, 60 boats, 1,600 strike and air defence missiles, and four million rounds of ammunition are included in the package. The announce...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a widespread backlash after referring to Muslims as “infiltrators” during a campaign speech over the weekend. Congress, the main opposition party to Mr Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Monday reported the prime minister’s...
Milan is proposing a new law to ban ice cream after midnight in an effort to protect the “tranquillity” of residents. For many, a late-night gelato is a part of Italian culture, but this is in danger under a new law being introduced in the city. A legislative starting paper has been filed by...
