Nurse in Australia charged over video about killing Israelis | Crime News

Police charge 26-year-old woman over video that prompted widespread condemnation. A nurse in Australia has been charged with making death threats and other offences over a video appearing to show hospital staff boasting about killing and denying treatment to Israeli patients. New South Wales Police said on Wednesday that they had charged a 26-year-old woman … Read more

Music stars release silent album in protest against UK AI copyright plans | Music News

Is This What We Want features recordings of empty studios, performance spaces, highlighting danger to creative trade. More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Cat Stevens and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest of the proposed changes to British copyright laws around artificial intelligence (AI), which they warned could lead to legalised … Read more

State of the World from NPR : NPR

The man poised to become Germany’s new Chancellor says the US administration doesn’t care about the fate of Europe. And, on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine what has been the impact of the largest conflict in Europe since the second world war? Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian … Read more

Trump administration moves to fire or put on leave nearly all USAID workers | Donald Trump News

Humanitarian assistance experts have warned agency’s demise will harm vulnerable people and weaken US soft power. The administration of United States President Donald Trump is moving to fire or place on leave nearly all employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). All USAID employees, with the exception of “designated personnel responsible for mission-critical … Read more

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,095 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key developments on the 1,095th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Sunday, February 23 – a day before the war’s third anniversary: Fighting Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its air defence units intercepted and destroyed 20 Ukrainian drones overnight over six regions of the country on … Read more

Pope Francis is in critical condition, the Vatican says : NPR

A woman lays a rosary on Saturday near candles adorned with pictures of Pope Francis outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Francis is battling pneumonia in Rome. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregorio Borgia/AP ROME — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required … Read more

In major U.S. reversal, Trump sees Ukraine, Zelenskyy to blame for war with Russia : NPR

President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, seen here at the United Nations in 2019, have had a fraught relationship dating back years. Trump is now calling Zelenskyy a “Dictator,” and Zelenskyy says it seems like Trump is living in a Russian-made “disinformation space.” Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP … Read more