Dr Mike Ryan is dropped from WHO executive team amid ‘painful’ cost cuts ⁦The Irish Times⁩ irishtimes.com/health/2025/05…

“Dublin landlord hit with largest-ever RTB fine over failure to register tenancies” Somewhat anticlimactically, this is a fine of €22k for a company renting six city centre properties in Dublin So, €3,600 per property. Or around a month’s rent irishtimes.com/ireland/housin…

Read this. It's remarkable. The UN is begging - literally begging - Israel to allow it to deliver to Gaza 160,000 pallets of food aid it has ready to go. Israel will not allow that. There is only one inescapable conclusion: Israel is deliberately starving Gaza to death.

🚨BREAKING : The Israeli military has killed journalist Abdulrahman Al-Abadla in a rocket attack in Gaza City, marking the third journalist to be killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces in just a few hours this morning.

Portugal's nationalist leader Andre Ventura is declaring the end of the country's two-party system after 50 years of democracy, following his party's shock performance in today's election

There are over 10,000 cancer patients in Gaza with no access to medical care. No one knows their names because their lives do not matter. My aunt’s husband, 65 years old, passed away in January 2024 a few weeks after the hospital where he was receiving treatment failed to offer

Today’s trade deal with EU adds just £9bn to UK national income by 2040, or around 0.2% of GDP. This compares with the loss to GDP caused by Brexit estimated at 20 times that, or 4% of GDP, by the Office for Budget Responsibility

Smotrich today: “We are disassembling Gaza, and leaving it as piles of rubble, with total destruction with no precedent globally. And the world isn't stopping us.”

Gaza baby sent back to war zone after open-heart surgery in Jordan bbc.in/3SJ3c3J

From the NYT: Dinner guests who paid up for Trump’s crypto dinner “said that they attended the event with the explicit intent of influencing Mr. Trump and U.S. financial regulations.”

Adam is the surviving child of 2 Gaza docs whose home was bombed by Israeli forces. 9 siblings killed. Family patriarch Dr Hamdi al-Najjar is critically wounded. 1400 healthcare workers now killed by Israeli forces in systematic attacks say Medical Aid for Palestinians

When reality confounds prejudice: “19-year-old Syrian refugee in Germany has been hailed as a hero after he pinned down an assailant at Hamburg’s main railway station, helping to halt an attack in which 18 people were injured.” The attacker was a 39-year-old German woman.

A summary execution among more than 310 UNRWA staff killed in #Gaza. Based on information recently made available to UNRWA, our colleague Kamal left his home in Rafah on 23 March, wearing his UN vest, and driving a clearly marked UN vehicle. Within an hour, UNRWA lost contact

“Those who lived often awoke to find their entire families gone,” he says. “I wonder if any member of this Council has ever met a 5yr old child who no longer wants to live.” In 2 weeks, he treated 13 children who had been shot in the head or chest.

Israel: We won’t let independent reporters into Gaza for their safety. Also Israel: We "tied up, blindfolded, strip searched, interrogated and threatened" BBC reporters in Syria. "Their electronic devices were also taken from them and material was deleted."

🚨 Mind blowing interview with Turing award-winning Yoshua Bengio for BBC Newsnight one of the three founding fathers of AI, is now warning: “The worst-case scenario is human extinction.” AI isn’t just risky — it could end us. 1/10 🧵 📺 youtu.be/c4Zx849dOiY?t=0

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

Tucker: How many people live in Iran? Cruz: I don’t know the population Tucker: You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple? Cruz: How many people live in Iran? Tucker: 92 million. How could you not know that?