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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-05-05 02:41:36 (2 days ago)

Explosion at fireworks factory in China kills 26, injures 61

Rescue efforts are still under way after a huge explosion ripped through China's fireworks capital.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-05-05 02:39:17 (2 days ago)

‘What comes next?’: Fear grips Pakistani families of Somali piracy victims

As piracy resurges off Somalia, families of hijacked tanker crew in Pakistan search for answers and help.

Le Monde - World News

2026-05-05 02:31:54 (2 days ago)

Spurs fall in game one to Timberwolves, despite record performance from Wembanyama

Victor Wembanyama had 11 points and 15 rebounds and set an NBA postseason record with 12 blocks, but lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves 104-1022. Game two in the seven-game series will be played on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-05-05 02:31:34 (2 days ago)

Iran war: What’s happening on day 67 as Hormuz crisis deepens?

The UAE says it intercepted Iranian missiles after a suspected drone attack, with no comment from Iran.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-05-05 02:30:46 (2 days ago)

South Korea rebuffs Trump’s ‘Project Freedom’ call after Hormuz ship fire

When a South Korean cargo ship exploded and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday, Donald Trump wasted no time declaring what he thought it meant. “Perhaps it’s time for South Korea to come and join the mission!” the US president wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, invoking the incident as fresh justification for Seoul to send naval forces to the embattled waterway. Seoul’s answer, for now, has been a polite but firm no – or at least, not yet. The explosion occurred...

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-05-05 02:24:08 (2 days ago)

FIFA bans former Guyana official Alves for 5 years over sexual harassment

Former General Secretary Ian Alves found guilty of sexually harassing female staff members by FIFA's Ethics Committee.

France 24 - World News

2026-05-05 02:11:08 (2 days ago)

Tour de France: French prodigy Paul Seixas announces first participation

Paul Seixas has announced that he will be competing in the 2026 Tour de France. At 19, he will be the youngest rider to start the Tour since 1937.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:08:08 (2 days ago)

‘The whale was not treated with the respect it deserved’: recriminations after carcass towed to Wollongong tip

Tugboat tows carcass of ‘leviathan proportions’ 20km from Era beach to Bellambi boat ramp, attracting sharks, says councillor demanding inquiry

Fishers, surfers and divers say they should have been warned about the towing of a huge whale carcass along a 20km stretch of coast south of Sydney, which resulted in increased shark activity.

A Wollongong city councillor is demanding a review into the operation to remove the sperm whale from a remote beach in the Royal national park last week.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-05-05 02:07:34 (2 days ago)

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The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:00:46 (2 days ago)

The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisis

Eerie omens haunt this absorbing group portrait set over six months in an English village

Sitting stoned on a hill above his village, a young man muses on his place in the world. Connor is proud to have fenced pastures while his mates have been away at university. But it’s overwhelming to think of all their lives being equally real and urgent. Are they part of the same story or separate ones? A phrase comes to him from a book he hated at school: something about “the roar on the other side of silence”. In this fine, subtle and strange novel from one of the most probing writers of contemporary rural life, Melissa Harrison earns that nod to George Eliot, whose words she gives to an anxious and ecstatic labourer clutching a can of Fanta.

The Given World follows the inhabitants of one village in a river valley, a place “as old as anywhere”, for six months between the equinoxes of a year. The time is now, or an imminent future when the seasons seem to have “ceased their metronome”. At first, the central figure appears to be Clare, who knows each flagstone of the ancient priory that has been the centre of her life. The six months are her dying time, from diagnosis to last thoughts. But, in a way that pays tribute to the solitary Clare’s understanding of interconnectedness, the novel goes out from the priory to trace a web of lives. In the breezeblock bungalow next door, a desperate farmer tunes in at dawn to American evangelists on the radio. Like Saj the postman, we call at addresses where literary fiction rarely bothers to ring the bell.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:00:45 (2 days ago)

Salisbury Cathedral restores stained-glass treasure by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris

Project to refurbish ‘Angels’ hailed huge success as dean says it will ‘lift spirits and rekindle hope’

Sam Kelly admitted there had been some nights of broken sleep as he led a two-year project to restore one of Salisbury Cathedral’s treasures, a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris.

“It would be wrong to say I didn’t lie awake sometimes,” said the head glazier. “You are working on something that is very precious and if it fell on the floor, it would be very bad.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 02:00:44 (2 days ago)

‘It feels like an independent republic’: Madrid’s new arty barrio of Carabanchel

This traditional neighbourhood ‘across the river’ is where the city’s creatives are heading as the centre heats up

Madrid’s current boomtown dynamics are driving the city centre way upmarket, pushing the average punter to outer barrios in search of cheaper rent. As seen in New York and elsewhere, the creative class is moving too – crossing the River Manzanares to open studios in the former factories and metalworks of Carabanchel. Now the city’s most populous district, this used to be a separate municipality, which was annexed to the capital in 1948 and built up into canyons of high-rise flats to house the postwar influx from the provinces, and later from Latin America.

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