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Elon Musk breaks with Trump over ‘big beautiful bill,’ calls it a blow to deficit cuts

WASHINGTON — A prominent alliance at the heart of U.S. political disruption is showing signs of strain as Elon Musk publicly criticized President Donald Trump’s marquee legislation, branding the “big beautiful bill” a “massive spending package” that undermines his government efficiency agenda.Musk, who served as a senior adviser and backed Trump’s 2024 campaign with at least $250 million, said he was “disappointed” by the bill’s deficit implications.In an interview aired Tuesday on CBS, he argued that the legislation contradicts the goals of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he led and envisioned as a driver of $1 trillion in federal cuts.“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful,” Musk said. “But I don’t know if it can be both.”The...

May 28, 2025

Elon Musk breaks with Trump over ‘big beautiful bill,’ calls it a blow to deficit cuts

WHO says COVID-19 cases rising globally due to new NB.1.8.1 variant

GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that a new COVID-19 variant, designated NB.1.8.1, may be contributing to rising case numbers in parts of the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and western Pacific regions.Detected in mid-May in nearly 11% of globally sequenced samples, the NB.1.8.1 variant has also surfaced in U.S. airports, identified in travelers arriving from affected regions to states including California, Washington, Virginia, and New York.The WHO has classified the variant as a “variant under monitoring,” stressing that it currently poses a low public health risk.Initial data indicate that existing vaccines remain effective, and no evidence suggests the strain causes more severe illness than previous variants.Meanwhile, the dominant global variant...

May 28, 2025

WHO says COVID-19 cases rising globally due to new NB.1.8.1 variant

Tate brothers charged with rape and trafficking in UK, pending extradition from Romania

LONDON — British prosecutors confirmed on Wednesday that influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been criminally charged in the United Kingdom with multiple offenses, including rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking, and controlling prostitution for gain.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) revealed that charges were approved in January 2024, but this is the first official confirmation of the case against the Tates in Britain.Arrest warrants, previously reported by media outlets, were issued by Bedfordshire Police in connection with alleged offenses that occurred between 2012 and 2015.Andrew Tate, 38, faces 10 charges involving three women, while Tristan Tate, 36, is charged with 11 offenses relating to one woman.The CPS has stated that both brothers, who hold dual U.S. and...

May 28, 2025

Tate brothers charged with rape and trafficking in UK, pending extradition from Romania

Israel says top Hamas military commander Mohammed Sinwar killed in Gaza strike

CAIRO — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed the killing of Mohammed Sinwar, a top Hamas military commander and younger brother of slain leader Yahya Sinwar, in a speech before parliament on Wednesday.Though no confirmation has come from Hamas, Netanyahu’s remarks appear to confirm Israeli media reports that Sinwar was the target of a May 13 airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.Mohammed Sinwar was one of the last high-ranking Hamas leaders still believed to be operating inside Gaza.As a senior figure in the Qassam Brigades and a member of Hamas’ joint chiefs of staff, Sinwar played a key role in military planning and strategy, including the infamous 2006 raid that led to the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit.His death, if verified, would deal another blow...

May 28, 2025

Israel says top Hamas military commander Mohammed Sinwar killed in Gaza strike

A Palestinian woman carries a girl wounded in an Israeli strike in the Saftawi neighborhood west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2025

EU says Israeli strikes in Gaza 'go beyond what is necessary' to fight Hamas

BRUSSELS — The EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has said that "Israeli strikes in Gaza go beyond what is necessary to fight Hamas" as the death toll there continues to mount.Kallas also said that the EU did not support a new aid distribution model backed by the US and Israel which bypasses the UN and other humanitarian organisations."We don't support the privatization of the distribution of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid can not be weaponized", she said.Israeli air strikes and other military actions since it resumed the war in March following a ceasefire have killed 3,924 people, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Israel says it is acting to destroy Hamas and get back hostages the group holds.Kallas' remarks follow an intervention by new German...

May 28, 2025

EU says Israeli strikes in Gaza 'go beyond what is necessary' to fight Hamas

Saúl Luciano Lliuya says water in Lake Palcacocha has increased, putting his hometown at risk

German court rejects Peruvian farmer's landmark climate case

BERLIN — A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy giant RWE in a long-awaited decision.Saúl Luciano Lliuya had argued that the firm's global emissions contributed to the melting of glaciers in Peru — threatening his hometown of Huaraz with flooding.He was seeking €17,000 (£14,250) in compensation — money he said he would use to pay for a flood defense project to protect the city.However, the higher regional court in the German city of Hamm on Wednesday blocked the case from proceeding further and ruled out any appeals, putting an end to Lliuya's 10-year legal battle.RWE said it was not active in Peru and questioned why it was singled out.It also pointed to its plans to phase out its coal-fired power plants and become...

May 28, 2025

German court rejects Peruvian farmer's landmark climate case

Migrants crowd a wooden boat as they sail to the port in La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, 18 August, 2024

Seven dead after migrant boat capsizes near Canary Islands

MADRID — Four women and three girls died on Wednesday when a small boat carrying migrants capsized while arriving to port in the Canary Islands, emergency services in Spain said.Spain's maritime rescue service, which located the boat some 9.6 kilometers from shore, said the boat tipped over as rescuers started removing children as it arrived at a dock on the island of El Hierro.Local media said the small boat appeared to be packed with more than 100 people.Spanish rescuers and members of the Red Cross were involved in a rescue operation, pulling several people out of the water.The Spanish archipelago located off Africa's western coast has for years been a main route for migrants trying to reach Europe.But it's also one of the world’s most dangerous with the Spanish...

May 28, 2025

Seven dead after migrant boat capsizes near Canary Islands

Sahu was killed and his wife Reema critically injured by a bomb hidden in a wedding gift

'Wedding bomb' murderer gets life sentence in India

NEW DELHI — A former college principal in the eastern Indian state of Odisha has been sentenced to life in prison for sending a parcel bomb that killed a newlywed man and his great aunt in 2018.A court found Punjilal Meher, 56, guilty of murder, attempted murder, and use of explosives in what became known as the "wedding bomb" case that stunned India.The bomb, disguised as a wedding gift, was delivered to the home of Soumya Sekhar Sahu, a 26-year-old software engineer, just days after his wedding.When the couple opened the package, it exploded - killing Sahu and his great aunt, and leaving his wife, Reema, who opened the package, critically wounded.While acknowledging the prosecution's argument that it was a "heinous" crime, the court declined to classify it as a...

May 28, 2025

'Wedding bomb' murderer gets life sentence in India

Palestinians gather near an aid distribution site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah, Gaza, on Tuesday

Dozens injured by Israeli gunfire as crowds overwhelmed Gaza aid site, UN says

GAZA — The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds overwhelmed an aid distribution center run by a controversial new group backed by the US and Israel.A senior official said the UN was still gathering information but that most of the injuries were due to gunshots and that "it was shooting from the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]".Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said one person was killed and 48 others were wounded.The IDF said it was checking the reports. A spokesman said troops fired "warning shots" into the air in the area outside the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's site in the southern city of Rafah but that they did not fire towards people.The GHF's aid distribution system uses US security...

May 28, 2025

Dozens injured by Israeli gunfire as crowds overwhelmed Gaza aid site, UN says

Ukraine said it uncovered a Hungarian espionage network earlier this month

Orban accused of using Ukraine spy row in fight for political survival

BUDAPEST — A spate of arrests, diplomatic expulsions and public humiliations has plunged relations between war-torn Ukraine and its prickly Nato neighbor Hungary to a new low.At the heart of the row are accusations that Viktor Orban's Fidesz government in Hungary is using the spat to fight his main political rival, the opposition Tisza party, which leads in the polls ahead of 2026 elections.Earlier this month, Ukraine's SBU security service announced the arrest of two Ukrainian citizens accused of spying for Hungary.According to the allegations, backed by video and audio evidence, the man and woman were in the pay of Hungarian military intelligence, preparing for Hungarian military action in Ukraine.Hungary then expelled two Ukrainian diplomats and Ukraine followed suit in a...

May 28, 2025

Orban accused of using Ukraine spy row in fight for political survival

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