#washingtonpost.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Amid low birth rates, war and emigration, Ukraine’s numbers are dwindling. In addition to the struggle against Russia, Ukraine faces a more existential battle, its birth rate is plunging and people are leaving the embattled nation in droves.
#Russia #Ukraine #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Toyah Cordingley was ‘unhappy with boyfriend’ days before death, Queensland murder trial told. Jury hears 24-year-old wanted to leave her boyfriend before she was found fatally stabbed and buried on a beach north of Cairns
#Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Africa’s medical system risks ‘collapse in next few years’, warns health leader. Focusing foreign aid on infectious diseases has allowed a rise in cancer and diabetes that African governments don’t have resources to fight, says Dr Githinji Gitahi
#Health #Africa
#oilprice.com. #Feb.27.2025 × France’s Engie May Shift Capex Away From U.S. Over Policy Uncertainty | OilPrice.com. Engie is considering reallocating capital away from the United States due to uncertainties in U.S. tariff and clean energy policies under the Trump administration.
#Business #France #USA #Europe #North America
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Ita Buttrose’s emails ‘hammering’ top ABC executives instrumental in Antoinette Lattouf’s sacking, court hears. Court hears how journalist’s social media post on Gaza was seized upon as a ‘pretext’ to get rid of her in an ‘utterly abnormal’ fashion
#Fashion
#bbc.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Succession-like feud engulfs Singapore's richest family. Kwek Leng Beng, the chairman of property giant CDL, has accused his son of plotting a boardroom coup.
#Singapore #Asia
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Ukraine’s economy could grow by 5% next year if hostilities end, EBRD says. European reconstruction bank will help rebuild country if peace is agreed but a lasting end to conflict is needed
#Ukraine #Europe #World Bank
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Top Democrat says Trump may seek mineral deal with both Russia and Ukraine. Jeanne Shaheen discusses Trump’s demand that Kyiv grant US firms access to rare-earth reserves for helping end war
#Politics #Russia #Ukraine #Volodymyr Zelenskyy #Europe #Vladimir Putin
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × ‘I’m still dancing’: Derbyshire woman has 105th birthday rave at care home. Hilda Jackson and fellow residents partied with strobe lights, glowsticks and drum’n’bass from festival-headliner
#United Kingdom #Europe
#computerweekly.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Verizon claims to ‘shatter’ US 5G upload speed record | Computer Weekly. Leading comms provider reveals 5G trial results with record-breaking uplink speed through use of technologies including TDD carrier component aggregation with C-band spectrum and uplink MIMO.
#Tech #United Kingdom #Europe
#bbc.com. #Feb.27.2025 × 'In a scary world, he gives us hope': Faithful gather to support the Pope. The latest statement suggests that the 88-year-old is able to sit in his chair, eat normally and do what the Vatican calls "light work".
#Religious #Vatican City #USA #Europe #North America
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Iran’s government hits out at crypto again as currency freefalls. Iran appears poised to impose new levels of control and oversight into crypto amid deteriorating economic conditions.
#Asia #Iran
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × On the road in south Wales: why is Reform UK on the rise?. This week, Politics Weekly UK is on the road in south-east Wales, hearing from those in traditional Labour heartlands. But with people increasingly frustrated that public services are crumbling and tha
#Politics #United Kingdom #USA #Europe #North America
#huffpost.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Musk Gets Star Turn At Trump's Cabinet Meeting. Elon Musk has taken a star turn at the first Cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s new term.
#Politics #Tech #cls__sex_gdb_Male #USA #Elon Musk #North America
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Sadiq Khan aims to add £100bn to London’s economy by 2035. Capital’s mayor wants return to productivity growth, which has struggled to recover from 2008 financial crisis
#Politics #United Kingdom #Sadiq Khan #Europe
#time.com. #Feb.27.2025 × See Trump’s Gaza AI Video. Trump’s proposal to develop the war-devastated Gaza Strip into a Riviera replete with luxury casinos and resorts has been heavily criticized in the Middle East.
#Politics
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Transgender US military personnel must be identified and stood down, says Pentagon memo. Being transgender is not compatible with service, court filing says, foreshadowing removal of people from service within 60 days
#oilprice.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Eni and Petronas Set to Combine Upstream Assets in Southeast Asia | OilPrice.com. Eni and Petronas have agreed to a joint venture to combine their upstream assets in Malaysia and Indonesia, focusing on gas development and LNG expansion.
#Business #Indonesia #Asia #Malaysia
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × ‘I don’t want it to die’: one man’s battle to save the last phone box in his village. In 1935, Derek Harris was born – and so was the K6 red phone box. Now, Harris is spending his 90th year ensuring this beloved local facility isn’t lost
#Tech #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × UK bumblebee numbers fell to lowest on record in 2024, shows data. Bumblebees declined by almost a quarter compared with the 2010-2023 average, according to conservation charity
#United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Merz’s all-male team photo revives question of gender equality in Germany. Image posted on social media rekindles idea that prospective new chancellor has a Frauenproblem
#Germany #Europe
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.27.2025 × US cutting foreign aid budgets by more than 90%, Trump administration says. US State Department says overseas development and aid programmes to be cut by $54bn.
#Politics
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Former NSW Liberal MP pleads not guilty to sexually assaulting teenage boy. Rory Amon committed to stand trial on 10 separate charges, including sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 14
#Politics #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 × Penny Wong accuses Coalition of ‘gunboat diplomacy’ in Senate estimates as Chinese warships sail into Great Australian Bight. James Paterson questions whether PM was across detail of live-fire drill, prompting Wong to say opposition senator ‘not actually interested in detail’
#Politics #China #Australian continent #Australia #Asia #Insular Oceania
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