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‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza
NEWS | 08 June 2025
“I told my mother it was a sign from God not to go again and that convinced her,” Mirvat said. So on Monday, Reem told Mohammad, her husband of 28 years, that she wanted to try again to get some food. Israel has not allowed foreign reporters to enter Gaza since 7 October 2023, unless they are under Israeli military escort. “What did my children do to lose their mother because she tried to get food for them? I watched my mother die before my eyes and I was powerless to do anything.”At first, she could not believe her mother had been killed.

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Germany plans rapid bunker expansion amid fears of Russian attack
NEWS | 08 June 2025
“For a long time, there was a widespread belief in Germany that war was not a scenario for which we needed to prepare. We are concerned about the risk of a major war of aggression in Europe,” he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung news outlet. He added that the country was in a race against time, and to rely on the construction of new bunker facilities was insufficient. Overnight, Russian forces launched missile and bomb strikes on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, leaving three people dead and 22 injured. Of about 2,000 bunkers in Germany and protection rooms left over from the cold war, only about 580 are in working order and most need multimillion-euro revamps.

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Kharkiv hit by ‘most powerful attack since start of war’ in Ukraine – video
NEWS | 08 June 2025
Russia has attacked the second largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with drones, missiles and guided bombs, killing at least three people and injuring 22, including a one-month-old baby, the mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said. Kharkiv is located just a few dozen kilometers from the Russian border and has been under constant shelling during more than three years of war. 'It was a horrible morning in Kharkiv, which was hit by 48 Shaheds [Russian attack drones], four guided bombs and two missiles. Civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were hit," Terekhov told Reuters

Current Events:
Trump warns Musk of ‘very serious consequences’ if he backs Democrats
NEWS | 08 June 2025
Donald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this week. Trump told interviewer Kristen Welker his relationship with the tech mogul was over and warned Musk against choosing to fund Democrats after spending close to $300m in support of Trump’s re-election last year. “If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News. However, some conservative Republicans share Musk’s concerns about the need for significant spending cuts and are considering making changes. Still, Trump told NBC he is “very confident” that the bill will pass the Senate before 4 July.

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JD Vance says Elon Musk’s attack against Trump is a ‘huge mistake’
NEWS | 08 June 2025
JD Vance said Elon Musk was making a “huge mistake” going after Donald Trump in a storm of bitter and inflammatory social media posts after a falling-out between the two men. The interview was taped on Thursday as Musk’s posts were unfurling on X, the social media network the billionaire owns. During the interview, Von showed the vice-president Musk’s claim that Trump’s administration hasn’t released all the records related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein because Trump is mentioned in them. Donald Trump didn’t do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein.”“This stuff is just not helpful,” Vance said in response to another post shared by Musk calling for Trump to be impeached and replaced with Vance. “It’s a good bill,” Vance said.

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Kristi Noem: the made-for-TV official executing Trump’s mass deportations
NEWS | 08 June 2025
View image in fullscreen Trump with Noem at a ‘Make America Wealthy Again’ event at the White House in April. As his homeland security chief, Noem said Trump asked her to cut a series of ads to amplify the administration’s message. In an interview earlier this year, the secretary vowed to leverage the “broad and extensive” authorities of her office to carry out Trump’s immigration crackdown. “The theatrics of terror and erosion of our constitutional rights are daily DHS violations under Secretary Noem,” Ramirez, who sits on the House homeland security committee, said. “I’ll put it another way: Noem is the first DHS secretary who’s running for president.”

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Nine women accuse Jared Leto of sexual impropriety in new report
NEWS | 08 June 2025
Multiple women have accused Jared Leto of impropriety, with some calling the 53-year-old actor and musician’s behavior “predatory, terrifying and unacceptable”. In a new report by Air Mail on Saturday, nine women have come forward to accuse Leto of engaging in inappropriate behavior over the years, including flirting with teenagers. According to the woman, Leto, who was seated with the actor Ashley Olsen, who was then 19, grabbed her arm. “I remember him teasing me the whole time I was there,” La Rue said, adding: “He was flirting with me. “He just walked out, dick out, like it was normal … I thought maybe this was just what adult men do,” she told Air Mail.

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Body of Thai hostage retrieved from Gaza, says Israeli defence minister
NEWS | 08 June 2025
The Israeli military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who had been held in Gaza since Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023, according to defence minister, Israel Katz. .Pinta’s body was held by a Palestinian militant group called the Mujahideen Brigades, and was retrieved from the area of Rafah in southern Gaza, Katz said. Pinta, an agricultural worker, was abducted from the Nir Oz kibbutz, a small community near the border, where one in four people were killed or taken hostage during the Hamas-led 2023 attack. The Israeli military said Pinta had been abducted alive and killed by his captors, who had also killed and taken to Gaza the bodies of two more Israeli-American hostages that were retrieved this week. Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people in Israel in the 2023 attack, Israel’s deadliest day, and took 251 hostages, 55 of whom remain in Gaza. Twenty hostages are believed to still be alive, according to Israeli authorities.

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Professor sues University of California for suspension over comments about Israel’s war in Gaza
NEWS | 08 June 2025
A professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, says the university violated her freedom of speech rights by suspending her for her online comments about Israel’s war in Gaza in a new lawsuit. The suit was filed by Rupa Marya, an internal medicine physician and professor at UCSF, identified as an expert in decolonial theory. Israel’s war in Gaza is estimated to have killed more than 54,000 Palestinians and levelled much of the territory. Last week, the Guardian reported that on Sunday at least 31 Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces opened fire near a food distribution center in Rafah, Gaza. International criticism intensified last week over a new aid distribution system in Gaza, run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and not UN or international aid organisations.

Today:
Scott Morrison sought advice to obstruct Nauru asylum seekers from accessing abortions, documents reveal
NEWS | 08 June 2025
Scott Morrison overrode medical advice in the case of an asylum seeker in offshore detention trying to access an abortion, and had previously sought advice that would effectively prevent access to terminations entirely, ministerial advice reveals. Morrison did not respond to requests for comment, and Guardian Australia cannot confirm what advice he received. View image in fullscreen A handwritten note from Scott Morrison when he was immigration minister, dated 25 November 2014. “It was extremely challenging and difficult for the medical transfer from people offshore, in particular women who were pregnant,” she said. In June 2014, there were 289 women in detention on Nauru, according to data collated by the Refugee Council of Australia.

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Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns
NEWS | 08 June 2025
Kabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, experts have warned. Meanwhile, almost half of the city’s boreholes – the primary source of drinking water for Kabul residents – have dried out. If these trends continue, all of Kabul’s aquifers will run dry as early as 2030, posing an existential threat to the city’s seven million inhabitants. A further $3bn in international water and sanitation funding has been frozen since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021. “Those in Kabul are in a situation where they have to decide between food or water.

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Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism
NEWS | 08 June 2025
He added: “By lending his Harvard credentials to Aporia, Pinker contributes to the normalisation and spread of dangerous, discredited ideas.”The Guardian emailed Pinker for comment using his Harvard email address but received no response. Pinker is world famous as the author of bestselling books including The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now. His appearance on Aporia, however, follows a recent pattern of controversy around his connections to figures promoting eugenics and scientific racism, including Steve Sailer. According to science writer Angela Saini’s Superior, a history of the revival of race science, Pinker was in turn an early participant in Sailer’s Human Biodiversity email discussion group. The Guardian has previously reported on the recent revival of Sailer, a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”, by the far-right publisher Passage Press.

Current Events:
Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event
NEWS | 08 June 2025
An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI, which once dismantled it in a nationwide effort. “The Base in [the] USA is preparing for an upcoming national training event,” reads one of its recent posts soliciting crypto donations. “This one might be our most attended training event in [the] USA in a while. “The upcoming national training event indicates that the group is seeking to grow and is willing to take the risk of advertising it publicly in advance,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst of far-right terrorism who has been following the Base’s movements for close to a decade. after newsletter promotion“Our focus is not on membership in particular groups but on criminal activity,” said a spokesperson for the FBI.

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Harry Kane saves listless England’s blushes as Andorra frustrate Tuchel
NEWS | 08 June 2025
And the second period was lifted only by the goal, scored by Harry Kane after a Noni Madueke cross. View image in fullscreen Harry Kane opens the scoring for England in the second half. In possession, it was broadly 3-1-5-1, although Kane still wanted to drop deep from the No 9 position. View image in fullscreen Thomas Tuchel tries to stir England into action as his Three Lions fail to break down Andorra. The breakthrough goal was a relief and it followed a lovely slide-rule pass from Jones into Kane.