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Times of Israel - World News

2026-07-12 01:28:21 (1 week ago)

Trump suggests standing order to destroy Iran if it kills him, but it’s not that simple

US has no way to create an automatic, preauthorized 'dead man's switch' retaliation; decision on how to respond would fall on his successor, Vice President JD Vance

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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-12 01:20:50 (1 week ago)

Switzerland hit out at VAR after ‘mistaken identity’ check ends in Breel Embolo red card

• Attacker shown second yellow card for simulation

• Argentina topple Swiss with two goals in extra time

Fifa match officials’ novel use of the term “mistaken identity” reared its head again in sensational circumstances during Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and Switzerland, leaving Swiss forward Breel Embolo in tears and the European side a man down for a total of 67 minutes against the defending champions.

“It’s completely not understandable,” Switzerland head coach Murat Yakin said afterward. “I know that they will protect their referee but this rule destroyed the game today.”

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-07-12 01:16:41 (1 week ago)

Pupils vow to save 'dying' river in beauty spot

Children from a school near a popular beauty spot test local water quality over pollution concerns.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-12 01:15:01 (1 week ago)

Former Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies aged 74

Sheikh Hamad, who ruled Qatar from 1995 to 2013, was a key architect of the energy-rich country's development.

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-07-12 01:12:03 (1 week ago)

Amur tiger Ginger Biscuit settles into new home

The two-year-old female has moved from Longleat to Woburn and is settling in well, her keepers say.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-12 01:07:10 (1 week ago)

US forces launch new strikes on Iran; Tehran closes Strait of Hormuz

US forces have launched a third round of strikes on Iran in a week.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-12 01:03:18 (1 week ago)

Why doesn’t Indian PM Modi hold unscripted press conferences?

Why doesn't Indian PM Modi hold unscripted press conferences?

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-12 01:00:10 (1 week ago)

My husband no longer desires me, but engaging an escort has complicated things | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

You and your husband need to have a frank discussion and decide whether you want to negotiate the next stage of life together or apart

I’m 55 and, after being a dutiful wife for 30 years, my sex drive declined after a traumatic hysterectomy eight years ago. My husband was patient and kind throughout. I love him dearly, but sex was never really the same afterwards, which I attribute to the surgery.

I’ve now been through menopause and suddenly find my libido returning. However, my husband no longer desires me due to weight gain. He can’t maintain an erection for long, and is very critical of my sexual performance. He’s seen a doctor, but nothing came of it, and he refuses couples counselling.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-12 01:00:10 (1 week ago)

At last, a proper excuse for monoglots to learn another language: it helps keep your brain young | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

I love busting out a French subjunctive in pursuit of better restaurant service, so it’s a joy to discover there’s a neuroscientific upside to being multilingual

It’s hard to pick a favourite PG Wodehouse line, but the one I’m perhaps most fond of is this: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”

It’s funny, but it also succinctly captures something that I have long felt about language acquisition, which is that in order to truly embrace learning another tongue, you have to be prepared to look foolish and vulnerable. (Why that can be so difficult for the English – a monoglot minority on a largely bilingual planet – is another article entirely.) More people will perhaps be prepared to endure that humbling process now, as new research has found that learning another language can slow ageing in the brain by up to 13 years. Multilingualism, it is thought, promotes brain connectivity and slows its decline with age.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-12 01:00:10 (1 week ago)

The South African trailblazers seeking to change how wildlife documentaries are made

National Geographic explorers create dive lab after finding too few black film-makers telling African wildlife stories

When Pragna Parsotam-Kok and Noel Kok made a wildlife series for South African TV in 2015, they were struck by how challenging it was to access animals to film and how few other African wildlife documentary makers there were.

Their response was to set up the not-for-profit Nature Environment and Wildlife Conservation Trust (NEWF) and to host a conference for African wildlife film-makers, the first taking place in 2017.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-12 01:00:09 (1 week ago)

A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela

Discontent with Trump-backed government mounts as Chávez heirs struggle to respond to disaster for which they seem ill-prepared

Even before two powerful earthquakes reduced the OPPE 25 government housing project to an anarchy of shattered concrete and broken lives, the foundations of Hugo Chávez’s populist “Bolivarian” revolution were shaking in what was once a hotbed of support.

Gabriel González remembers his elation when, in 2013, he received the keys to his freshly completed apartment in one of the 12-floor tower blocks El Comandante had ordered to be built in an affluent corner of the resort town of Caraballeda.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-12 01:00:09 (1 week ago)

US allies apprehensive after capricious Trump changes tune at Nato summit

Sudden shift may be linked to affinity for Erdoğan but what might be consequences of erratic behavior towards alliance?

Donald Trump’s relationship with Washington’s Nato allies is nobody’s idea of a happy marriage.

But the US president’s volatile performance at the western military alliance’s annual summit in Ankara this week seemed extreme, even by Trumpian standards. As commentators sought toexplain what happened, their usually capacious stock of Trump-fitting cliches was at risk of exhaustion.