About Stateside with Kai and Carter
A Guardian show trying to make sense of it all Award-winning journalists Kai Wright and Carter Sherman serve as co-hosts of the Guardian’s new US video podcast Stateside with Kai … Read More
Category: World News
Deaths of at least six people believed to be due to heat inside shipping container in Texas
Seventh body found near railroad tracks thought to be connected to what authorities call ‘potential human smuggling event’ Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Federal agents are … Read More
Trump’s sudden cut in substance testing is ‘going to kill people’, experts warn
Samhsa said funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test kits The Trump administration’s decision to restrict use of federal funds for fentanyl … Read More
First Thing: Democrats express ‘grave concerns’ over secretive ICE deportation flights
Letter follows a Guardian investigation into irregular ways the Trump administration was transporting detainees. Plus, top World Cup tickets to retail at almost $33,000 Don’t already get First Thing in … Read More
Trump’s rollback of toxic gas rules limits EPA’s authority to protect public health, analysis says
Ethylene oxide (EtO) is about 60 times more carcinogenic than believed in 2006, research finds A new Trump administration plan to rescind 2024 regulations for toxic ethylene oxide (EtO) pollution … Read More
‘There is a big rejection of Starmer’ from Labour voters as PM faces calls to resign
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told his top team that he was getting on with governing, defying mounting calls from ministers and MPs to step down. This comes following the … Read More
‘Rule of gerontocracy has ended’: Africa will no longer be ‘lorded over by moral rule of old men’
On the sidelines of the Africa Forward Summit at Strathmore University, François Picard is pleased to welcome celebrated historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe. He offers deep insight into a … Read More
European Union adopts new sanctions Israeli settlers over violence in West Bank
European Union foreign ministers on May 12 agreed new sanctions on Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians, as a change of government in Hungary ended months of blockage. The bloc … Read More
‘This is not Covid’: France takes strict measures to contain cruise ship virus
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, May 12: As France records its first hantavirus case, the government says it is following health guidelines “to a tee”. In Britain, the press echoes calls by … Read More
Hantavirus: Should we fear another global pandemic like Covid-19?
FRANCE 24 spoke to virologist Muhammad Munir from Lancaster University about the risks of hantavirus transmission, the virus’s long incubation period, and why health experts say a Covid-style scenario remains unlikely.