G7 countries pledge $2.5 billion to fight food insecurity
In announcing the pledge, French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said the World Bank identified 44 countries that may face food insecurity, notably due to fertiliser supply issues linked to energy price hikes after the US war on Iran.
In Ecuador, fishermen are the collateral victims of American bombs
Under the pretext of waging a 'war' against 'narco-terrorists,' the US has targeted longline fishing vessels off the coast of the Andean country. Eight fishermen remain missing, and Washington has claimed responsibility for the deaths of 238 men in the Pacific and the Caribbean since late 2025. Human rights advocates have condemned what they call 'illegal killings.'
Israeli firm’s digital ads enabling installation of ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say
Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of Toronto An Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets, researchers at a Canadian university have said. Citizen Lab, a digital investigations research unit at the University of Toronto, said it believed dozens of devices at the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera had been compromised by spyware delivered through ads run by Discover-Tech, which describes itself as a specialised digital advertising agency. Continue reading...
This time it’s personal: ‘sneering nepo baby’ insults fly as AFR and Mail columnists go to war | Weekly Beast
Peter van Onselen takes extreme exception to Hannah Wootton’s references to his wife in her Fin Review column. Plus: the Hanson family secret * Want to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter here A Nine columnist learned an alarming lesson this week. If you come for Peter van Onselen, or his family, you’d better bargain for an 800-word rebuke in response. The political and economics editor of the Daily Mail Australia was not amused by last week’s Rear Window column in the Australian Financial Review, which referred to his wife, Ainslie van Onselen, who is the head of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletter Continue reading...
Trump’s new press secretary says it’s ‘unknown’ how much she’ll deal with media
Katie Zacharia tells Guardian her first, widely panned, press briefing followed six-day sprint to appoint her to key role Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary says it is “unknown” how much she will engage with the press or hold briefings with reporters, as she faces mounting questions over her legal credentials. In a brief interview with the Guardian on Thursday, Katie Zacharia detailed the whirlwind sprint to replace her predecessor Karoline Leavitt as the US president’s chief spokesperson. Continue reading...
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