Gaza ceasefire deal, explained | Start Here | Digital Series

Gaza ceasefire deal, explained | Start Here | Digital Series

What’s in the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and what are some of the challenges to the deal holding? #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains. This episode features: Diana Buttu | Palestinian lawyer and former legal adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization Beverley Milton-Edwards | Non-resident senior fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs … Read more

Haaland and Manchester City agree new 10-year contract

Haaland and Manchester City agree new 10-year contract

Norway striker Erling Haaland will be aged 34 when his deal with Premier League champions expires. Erling Haaland has signed a new contract at Manchester City that ties him to the Premier League champions until 2034. City announced the new nine and a half-year deal on Friday for the 24-year-old, who has scored 111 goals … Read more

Imran Khan: Pakistani court sentences ex-Prime Minister and his wife to jail in corruption case

Imran Khan: Pakistani court sentences ex-Prime Minister and his wife to jail in corruption case

Islamabad, Pakistan AP  —  A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced the country’s already-imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and seven years in jail after finding them guilty of corruption, officials and his lawyer said. The couple are accused of accepting a gift of land from a real estate tycoon in … Read more

Australian woman charged with poisoning 1-year-old girl, posting videos for donations, police say

Australian woman charged with poisoning 1-year-old girl, posting videos for donations, police say

A woman in Australia has been arrested on allegations she gave a 1-year-old girl a variety of drugs to make her sick over a period of several months, then posted videos of the infant online for sympathy and donations, local police said. The child was subjected to “immense distress and pain” for over two months, … Read more

Can the ceasefire agreement lead to lasting peace in Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Can the ceasefire agreement lead to lasting peace in Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Deal between Israel and Hamas seeks to end 15 months of war. Israeli attacks have killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza after mediators announced that a ceasefire agreement was reached to end 15 months of war. The ceasefire is expected to come into effect on Sunday, a day before US President-elect Donald Trump’s return to … Read more

Deciphering Trump: How much is talk, how much is real? | Donald Trump

Deciphering Trump: How much is talk, how much is real? | Donald Trump

US President-elect Donald Trump assumes office with a wide-ranging ‘Day One’ list of executive orders. US President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on an array of issues that he promised to resolve on “Day One”, ranging from immigration to oil production. Host Steve Clemons speaks with Tevi Troy, who served as a deputy secretary in the cabinet … Read more

Grooming gang scandal: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to announce new local inquiries into grooming gangs

Grooming gang scandal: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to announce new local inquiries into grooming gangs

What was in Alexis Jay’s 2022 report?published at 13:41 Greenwich Mean Time 13:41 GMT As we reported earlier, the government has pointed to previous inquiries, when explaining why it would not set up a new inquiry. In October 2022, child protection expert Prof Alexis Jay finished a seven-year inquiry into sexual abuse of children across … Read more

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket on test flight

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket on test flight

The rocket’s first attempt to launch on Monday was scrubbed around because ice had accumulated on a propellant line. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has blasted off from Florida on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit for Jeff Bezos’s space company. Thirty storeys tall, standing at 98 metres (321.5 feet), … Read more

US bans dye Red No. 3 from foods, saying it causes cancer in lab rats

US bans dye Red No. 3 from foods, saying it causes cancer in lab rats

The ban by US regulators on Wednesday in food items comes more than three decades after it was barred from cosmetics. The United States has banned the use of a synthetic food dye that gives some candies, cakes and certain oral medications a cherry-red colour, following evidence that the dye causes cancer in laboratory rats. … Read more

What concerns does the use of AI in news raise? | Regulation

What concerns does the use of AI in news raise? | Regulation

Today on The Stream, AI’s role in news raises concerns about journalistic integrity, deepfakes, misinformation, and accountability in content creation. As artificial intelligence transforms news production, it offers both innovation and ethical challenges. While AI can streamline content and analyse data, it also raises concerns about misinformation, deepfakes, and accountability. How can the news industry … Read more

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