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The Guardian - World News

2026-05-12 00:31:14 (5 days ago)

Country diary: No Mow May is back on track – and the results are wonderful | Jennifer Jones

Hunt’s Cross, Liverpool: A survey of the roadside verge turns up 21 species including cuckoo flower and yarrow. But not everyone likes it

The impact was visceral. For days last spring I watched an army of confederates, with their uniforms of fiery gold bands and anthracite hoops, advancing up the road. They were cinnabar moth caterpillars, gathered on their host plant, common ragwort. And thanks to Liverpool city council’s observance of No Mow May, there were plenty of both in the roadside verge near my home.

But days before the month ended, the mowing team arrived, like pilgrims breaking their Lenten fast early. The ragworts and their parties of travellers were churned up and spat out. I was desolate.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-05-12 00:20:43 (5 days ago)

South Korea cautious on blaming Iran for ship strike ahead of US-China summit

South Korea is treading carefully in attributing blame for the strike on one of its cargo ships earlier this month, even as preliminary signs point to Iranian drones being the culprit. Seoul has surveillance footage of the incident in the early hours of May 4 – when two airborne objects struck the HMM Namu while it lay at anchor off the United Arab Emirates – but so far has said little. Observers believe the government is biding its time and waiting to deliver a verdict until after a highly...

France 24 - World News

2026-05-12 00:18:04 (5 days ago)

Middle East war live: France, UK host Hormuz meeting as Trump says Iran truce ‘on life support’

French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin and her British counterpart John Healey will co-chair a multinational meeting Tuesday on military plans to restore trade flows through the blocked Strait of Hormuz after the Iran war ends. The virtual meeting of dozens of defence ministers comes as President Donald Trump warned the US-Iran ceasefire was on “life support”. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-05-12 00:16:50 (5 days ago)

Hundreds more displaced as gang violence escalates in Haiti’s capital

Renewed clashes between rival gangs in Port-au-Prince have forced hundreds to flee their homes.

RT News - Top Stories

2026-05-12 00:12:53 (5 days ago)

Israeli soldiers jailed for desecrating Virgin Mary statue

Two Israeli soldiers were sentenced to military prison for desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in Lebanon
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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-05-12 00:08:05 (5 days ago)

Flotilla activist Thiago Ávila arrives in Brazil

Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila returned to São Paulo after being detained and deported from Israel.

New York Times - World News

2026-05-12 00:06:09 (5 days ago)

What to Know About the Hantavirus Outbreak on an Atlantic Cruise Ship

The health authorities are working to calm fears and contain the rare virus. Three passengers died after traveling on the ship, and several others fell ill or tested positive.

New York Times - World News

2026-05-12 00:01:05 (5 days ago)

Is France’s Centrist Leader Trying to Weatherproof It From the Far Right?

President Emmanuel Macron has appointed a string of allies who will remain in critical state positions after next year’s presidential election, and who could thwart a far-right successor.

Fox News - Video

2026-05-12 00:00:48 (5 days ago)

Spencer Pratt’s ‘non-partisan’ messaging is ‘resonating’ with everyday Americans, CA GOP delegate says

California GOP delegate Elizabeth Barcohana and California attorney general candidate Michael Gates discuss Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt’s campaign messaging on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-12 00:00:15 (5 days ago)

Cannes spotlight reverts to auteurs as Hollywood retreats from film festival

Absence of big US films heralds renewed focus on international cinema that underpins festival’s reputation

For decades, Cannes has occupied a unique place in the cultural imagination – not just as the world’s most prestigious film festival, but as Hollywood’s most glamorous overseas outpost.

From Grace Kelly on the Croisette, Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman at the Pulp Fiction premiere, Julia Roberts walking barefoot up the red carpet, to Tom Cruise shutting down the Riviera with fighter jets overhead, Hollywood has made its mark on Cannes.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-12 00:00:14 (5 days ago)

‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed

After a series of deaths on the beaches of Brittany, one bereaved family set out to prove the foul-smelling bloom was to blame

When her phone rang at around 5pm on 8 September 2016, Rosy Auffray was still at work. It was one of her daughters, distressed, calling to tell her that their father, Jean-René, had not come back from his daily run. Only the family dog had returned, alone and exhausted. Rosy rushed back home.

When she arrived, Rosy noticed that the dog was behaving bizarrely: she refused to walk, then collapsed under a bush. Her fur stank of rotten eggs, of overflowing sewers. Rosy knew where that smell came from: the mudflats roughly three miles from the family home in Brittany, where seaweed had been accumulating and putrefying. The soggy, decomposing seaweed stretched for miles along the shore, sometimes as much as five feet thick, killing other plants and suffocating fish and small birds.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-12 00:00:14 (5 days ago)

Hot divorcee summer: get ready for big hats, hot sex and don’t-care energy

Fresh out of wedlock and in the mood for some fun? Join your newly single sisters in the glow-up to end all glow-ups

‘Sorry babe I’m a divorced mum on a buffet of magnesium glycinate, ashwagandha, peptides, and sertraline, covering a mortgage alone during late stage capitalism, idgaf about your opinion anymore,” wrote Meghan McTavish, an Australian divorce-fluencer, who went viral a couple of years ago because, even after her split, her parents refused to take down her wedding photos.

This might be the core of hot divorcee energy: an unvarnished devil-may-care spirit that seems to have captured the cultural moment this summer. So, of course, you’re wondering how this differs from the brat, last year’s aspirational muse – who also, emphatically, did not care what the world thought (though if you’re still confused about the difference between that and 2024’s hot girl summer, I suggest you go back in time and take last year’s module again).