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Police and firefighters work on the site of a funicular railway accident in Lisbon, Portugal
Historic Lisbon train derails in deadly crash at tourist hotspot
LISBON — The first light over Lisbon revealed the shattered remains of the Gloria funicular, its distinctive yellow carriages in ruins after it derailed and crashed on Wednesday killing at least 15 people and injuring 23.Since 1885, the cable railway has carried locals and visitors up and down a few hundred meters of a steep cobbled street that links Restauradores Square, a lively plaza commemorating Portugal’s independence from Spain, to the Bairro Alto district.But on Wednesday, just as the evening rush hour was starting, one of its two cars derailed and plummeted down the street before crashing into a building, local media reported.Footage showed frantic rescue efforts as some passengers were pulled from one of the destroyed cars while others clambered through the windows of another...
September 04, 2025

Historic Lisbon train derails in deadly crash at tourist hotspot

Three-year-old Ibrahim al-Mabhuh is held by his grandmother after an Israeli strike in Gaza City killed his parents and two sisters
Israel intensifies Gaza City attacks as UN warns of 'horrific' consequences for displaced families
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces are intensifying their attacks on the outskirts of Gaza City, residents say, as the military steps up preparations for a ground offensive to conquer it.Hospitals said women and children were among more than 30 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in the city on Wednesday, most of them in the north and west.The Israeli military's chief of staff vowed to "continue striking Hamas's centres of gravity until it is defeated" and its hostages freed.The UN and aid groups said the Israeli operations were already having "horrific humanitarian consequences" for displaced families sheltering in the city, which is home to a million people and where a famine was declared last month.Meanwhile, Israeli protesters took part in what they called a...
September 04, 2025

Israel intensifies Gaza City attacks as UN warns of 'horrific' consequences for displaced families

The new GST rates are set to make everyday items cheaper
India makes ACs, tea, school supplies cheaper to mitigate shock of US tariffs
MUMBAI — India has cut taxes on hundreds of goods to boost consumption and mitigate the potential impact of steep US tariffs.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) panel had simplified the consumption tax into two slabs — 5% and 18% — doing away with an earlier four-slab structure. There will be a separate 40% tax on sin goods like cigarettes.Goods set to become cheaper include food items, school supplies and insurance while imported liquor and premium cars would become costlier.Stock markets rallied on the announcement. But analysts say the slashed taxes could lead to revenue losses of up to $6bn for the government.The new rates will come into effect on 22 September, which is around the time India's festive season is set to...
September 04, 2025

India makes ACs, tea, school supplies cheaper to mitigate shock of US tariffs

Instead of peace talks, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian cities
Allies ready to support Ukraine before and after peace deal, says UK
PARIS — The UK and its allies stand ready to support Ukraine before negotiations to end the war as well as to secure an eventual peace deal, the UK defence secretary says.Ahead of a top-level meeting in Paris on Thursday, John Healey told the BBC in Kyiv that Ukraine's allies would "help make the skies safe, to make the seas safe, and to secure the land", once a peace deal had been struck.He was speaking after Russia's President Vladimir Putin conveyed a defiant message from China, vowing that his full-scale invasion could continue.Healey suggested there was bluster in Putin's words, insisting that Russia was under pressure. He also praised US President Donald Trump who he said had "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options",...
September 04, 2025

Allies ready to support Ukraine before and after peace deal, says UK

Hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients were told to repay debts that did not exist
Record payout for victims of 'illegal and immoral' Australian welfare scheme
SYDNEY — Hundreds of thousands of Australians forced to pay back welfare debts created by an illegal automated system have won the largest payout in the country's history. Known as "Robodebt", the scheme wrongly told welfare recipients they had been overpaid and demanded they repay these debts, which often never existed. In 2020, a successful class action resulted in a A$1.8bn (£876m; $1.2bn) settlement for victims of the scheme — some of whom took their own lives. However, the group's lawyers appealed for more money after new evidence showed officials of the then-Liberal National coalition government knew the scheme was "unlawful" but continued anyway. On Thursday, the current Labor government announced it would settle that claim, and hand an...
September 04, 2025

Record payout for victims of 'illegal and immoral' Australian welfare scheme

The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency at the entrance of the Vienna International Centre
Iran increased stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium before Israeli strikes, IAEA says
VIENNA — A confidential report by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog circulated to member states said on Wednesday that Iran increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels before Israel launched air strikes on the country on 13 June.The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that as of 13 June, Iran had 440.9 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 60%, an increase of 32.3 kilograms since the IAEA's last report in May.The report stated that this figure is "based on the information provided by Iran, agency verification activities between 17 May 2025 and 12 June 2025, and estimates based on the past operation of the relevant facilities."That material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of...
September 04, 2025

Iran increased stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium before Israeli strikes, IAEA says

The exterior of the US Supreme Court with an American flag in foreground
Trump appeals to US Supreme Court to rule on legality of tariffs
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision that found many of his sweeping tariffs were illegal.In a petition filed late on Wednesday, the administration asked the justices to quickly intervene to rule that the president has the power to impose such import taxes on foreign nations.A divided US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week ruled 7-4 that the tariffs Trump brought in through an emergency economic powers act did not fall within the president's mandate and that setting levies was "a core Congressional power".The case could upend Trump's economic and foreign policy agenda and force the US to refund billions in tariffs.Trump had justified the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic...
September 04, 2025

Trump appeals to US Supreme Court to rule on legality of tariffs

Haley Robson answers reporters' questions during a news conference wth other alleged victims of disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, outside the US Capitol on September 3, 2025
Epstein files push hits a ‘boiling point’ in Congress as Trump dismisses it as a hoax
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers stood outside the US Capitol on Wednesday alongside nearly a dozen women who said they’d been abused by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein with a poignant message: This is not a hoax.That included a direct plea from one of the survivors, Anouska de Georgiou, to the president: “President Trump, you have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use that influence and power to help us.”And an invite extended to him from another abuse survivor, Haley Robson: “I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in person so you can understand this is not a hoax. We are real human beings. This is real trauma.”Yet just moments after those survivors spoke, President Donald Trump delivered his own remarks, dismissing...
September 04, 2025

Epstein files push hits a ‘boiling point’ in Congress as Trump dismisses it as a hoax

Harvard University students with graduation gowns at the Widener Library on the Harvard Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Judge says Trump administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion from Harvard
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday gave Harvard University a landmark victory in its fight against the Trump administration, siding with the Ivy League school in its effort to restore more than $2 billion in federal funding for research frozen by the White House.The decision from US District Judge Allison Burroughs rejects the administration’s argument that it was targeting the university due to antisemitism on the school’s campus.“A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities,” wrote Burroughs, an appointee of former President Barack Obama.“Their actions have jeopardized decades of research...
September 04, 2025

Judge says Trump administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion from Harvard

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said Wednesday that the state will work toward ending all vaccine mandates, which would include those for school enrollment
Florida plans to end vaccine mandates statewide, including for schoolchildren
MIAMI — Florida will move to end all vaccine mandates in the state, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday.The move would make Florida the first state to end a longstanding – and constitutionally upheld – practice of requiring certain vaccines for school students.The state health department will immediately move to end all non-statutory mandates in the state, Ladapo said at a news conference. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was also at the event, said state lawmakers would then look into developing a legislative package to end any remaining mandates.Ladapo said that every vaccine mandate “is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”All 50 states have had school immunization requirements since the beginning of the 1980s, with incoming kindergartners needing...
September 04, 2025

Florida plans to end vaccine mandates statewide, including for schoolchildren

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