Sunday, May 25, 2025

Six In The Morning Sunday 25 May 2025

 

Gaza’s youngest influencer among 11 children killed by Israel in two days

At least 11 children, aged between seven months and 12 years, have been killed in Israeli attacks in the last 48 hours.

Israeli forces have killed nearly a dozen Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip in the last 48 hours, while thousands more face the threat of imminent starvation amid an intensifying humanitarian crisis.

On Sunday, four-year-old Mohammed Yassine joined dozens of other children who have starved to death in recent days as the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that more than 70,000 children in Gaza face acute levels of malnutrition.

‘Roadmap for corruption’: Trump dive into cryptocurrency raises ethics alarm


The president’s hawking of $Trump memecoin has sparked a firestorm of criticism over potential influence buying

 in Washington
Sun 25 May 2025 12.00 BST


Donald Trump’s push to sharply ease oversight of the cryptocurrency industry, while he and his sons have fast expanded crypto ventures that have reaped billions of dollars from investors including foreign ones, is raising alarm about ethical and legal issues.

Watchdog groups, congressional Democrats and some Republicans have levelled a firestorm of criticism at Trump for hawking his own memecoin $Trump, a novelty crypto token with no inherent value, by personally hosting a 22 May dinner at his Virginia golf club for the 220 largest buyers of $Trump and a private “reception” for the 25 biggest buyers.

Venezuelans head to polls as opposition urges boycott

Voting taking place in Venezuela for lawmakers and governors after a crackdown that saw dozens of government critics detained. Turnout is expected to be low as opposition leaders urge a boycott

Venezuelans are voting on Sunday in elections for lawmakers, governors, and other officials amid increased government repression and rising calls from the opposition to boycott the polls.

The vote marks the first major electoral event with broad voter eligibility since last year's presidential election, which incumbent President Nicolas Maduro claimed to have won despite credible evidence of fraud.

Deadly windstorms batter Pakistan after extreme heatwave

At least 14 people were killed and over 100 injured as violent windstorms tore through Pakistan after days of extreme heat, toppling trees, downing power lines and causing widespread damage, officials said Sunday.

"Destructive" windstorms that raged across central and northern Pakistan after an intense heatwave have killed at least 14 people and injured over 100 more, officials said Sunday.

Fierce winds, thunder and lightning swept across eastern Punjab and northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces as well as the capital Islamabad on Saturday afternoon and evening, uprooting trees and downing electric poles.

Are microplastics hurting our fertility?

By Tomoko Otake
Staff writer

In February, Italian researchers announced what they claimed to be a world-first discovery: microplastic particles were found in the ovarian follicular fluid of women undergoing infertility treatment.

The study adds to a growing body of research from around the world showing that tiny plastic particles have made their way into nearly every part of our body, from hair, saliva and blood to breast milk, the liver, kidneys and even the placenta.


Russia launches largest air attack yet on Ukraine

James Waterhouse

BBC Ukraine correspondent
Reporting fromKyiv


Russia has intensified strikes on Ukraine, with the highest number of drones and missiles launched in a single night yet.

At least 14 people, including three children, were killed and dozens injured in widespread strikes, officials said. The attack came a day after the Ukrainian capital Kyiv suffered one of the heaviest assaults of the war.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the "brutality cannot be stopped" without "strong pressure on the Russian leadership". Russia has been ignoring calls for a ceasefire.



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