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How did Gaza’s sea become a wall?

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-05-10T11:31:56+00:00

For 18 years, Israel has enforced a naval blockade around the Gaza Strip.

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Plaid Cymru leader says he hopes to be made first minister as early as Tuesday

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T11:20:33+00:00

Rhun ap Iowerth says he hopes his party’s programme for government will get backing from across the SeneddUK politics live – latest updatesThe leader of Plaid Cymru is hoping to become Welsh first minister as early as Tuesday after his party won a historic victory in the Senedd elections, soundly beating Labour and holding off Reform UK.Plaid fell short of winning a majority in the Welsh parliament but Rhun ap Iorwerth said on Sunday he hoped other parties would work with him and told UK Labour not to punish Wales over the result. Continue reading...

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Gold, silver seen range-bound for second week amid US-Iran talks: Analysts

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-05-10T11:17:50+00:00

On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), gold futures gained ₹1,178, or nearly 1 per cent over the past week, to settle at ₹1.52 lakh per 10 grams. Silver climbed ₹10,985, 4.4 per cent, to close at ₹2.61 lakh per kg

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‘I was in a terrible state’: actor David Morrissey tells how social anxiety led him to alcoholism

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T11:14:36+00:00

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Liverpool-born actor says depression and anxiety followed death of his father when he was 15The actor David Morrissey has spoken of how “terrible” social anxiety contributed to him becoming an alcoholic.“I am a recovering alcoholic,” Morrissey, who has been sober for 21 years, told Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Continue reading...

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Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T11:01:36+00:00

Saudi Arabia’s state oil company’s profits up 26% to £26.9bn in first three months of yearBusiness live – latest updatesSaudi Arabia’s state oil company reported a 26% jump in profits in its first quarter as its east-west pipeline allowed it to ship millions of barrels of oil out of the Gulf despite conflict in the Middle East.Profits at Saudi Aramco hit $33.6bn (£26.9bn) in the first three months of the year, while revenue rose nearly 7% compared with a year earlier to $115.5bn. Continue reading...

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Mogging, gen Z and why streaming platform Twitch has changed its rules

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T11:00:25+00:00

Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a stranger’s video feed now allowed Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something caught his eye: a popular Twitch streamer was competing in a 1v1 “mog-off” with a stranger, and losing.The next day he opened the Omoggle gaming website and began to play. Quickly he matched with another user – green dots appeared on their faces onscreen, as the website began to compare their measurements: canthal tilt, palpebral fissure ratio, nose-to-face width ratio and so on. Continue reading...

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Streaming platform Twitch lets users enter viral ‘mogging’ beauty contests

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T11:00:25+00:00

Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a stranger’s video feed now allowed Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something caught his eye: a popular Twitch streamer was competing in a 1v1 “mog-off” with a stranger, and losing.The next day he opened the Omoggle gaming website and began to play. Quickly he matched with another user – green dots appeared on their faces onscreen, as the website began to compare their measurements: canthal tilt, palpebral fissure ratio, nose-to-face width ratio and so on. Continue reading...

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How TMZ is finding its footing on the political scene, even after some misfires

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T11:00:24+00:00

The salacious gossip website is hounding politicians and tracking vacationing members of CongressTMZ has only been in Washington DC for a matter of weeks, but the salacious gossip website is already having an impact: hounding politicians, tracking vacationing members of Congress and reporting on a senator taking a trip to Disney World.It’s been quite the start as the website and TV channel attempts to break into the political scene, with its first focus on members of Congress taking a two-week recess – typically meaning the politicians return to their home districts and states to meet constitu

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Gullah Geechee people set out to keep their family land. Unclear titles and surging taxes are pushing them out

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T11:00:24+00:00

Property disputes, predatory developers and surging sea levels are putting the historic Black community at riskOn Arthur Champen’s half-acre property in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, a thicket of southern live oaks, palmettos and pine trees muffle the roar of cars on nearby highway 278. His haint blue house, lightened by the sun, sits on stilts to protect it from flooding that comes with the high tide. During the spring, it is common for the marshland adjacent to his land to turn into a muddy soup. “Other than the cars,” Champen, 81, said, “you hear how peaceful it is?”About a decade ago

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Putin suggests Ukraine war is winding down but aides say it is ‘long road’ to peace

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T10:56:11+00:00

Kremlin spokesperson plays down idea of quick resolution of conflict after president said he thought it was ‘coming to an end’Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down, hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years and even as two of his senior aides played down the notion of a quick end to the conflict.“I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin said of Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second world war. He said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe and that his preferred

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Gaza, la sfida di maratoneti e surfisti: “Ci riprendiamo questa terra e questo mare”

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-05-10T10:52:41+00:00

Oltre duemila gazawi hanno partecipato alla corsa promossa in contemporanea a Betlemme e nella Striscia: il percorso è passato per la strada costiera Rashid che ha fatto da teatro a momenti dolorosi della guerra. Tra le onde molti si misuravano invece con la tavola

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Piruz Khambatta’s Ashoi: How 60,000 Parsis built $400 billion in enterprise value

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-05-10T10:52:04+00:00

The Rasna founder says the principles that helped India’s marginal 60,000 Parsi population build companies worth more than $400 billion are not meant to promote a religion, but to offer millions of Indians a practical guide to think and grow rich and become the country’s own “millionaires next door.”

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Labour MP challenges ministers to trigger leadership contest as Starmer vows to fight on – UK politics live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T10:51:39+00:00

Catherine West issues ultimatum for the PM as ex-minister Josh Simons joins calls for prime minister to quitAt the start of her programme Laura Kuenssberg addressed Catherine West and Bridget Phillipson who were sitting waiting for the main interviews.Kuenssberg told West she wanted a cabinet minister to challenge Keir Starmer. She said she was sitting next to one of them. What was her message to her?Well, there’s nothing stopping Bridget from standing. Why are all the men better than the women? We do need some senior women to step forward and to challenge for what is going to be a really diff

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India still hunting for use-case to realise 5G ambitions

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-05-10T10:39:46+00:00

The discussions appeared to be making headway at the time with stakeholders identifying verticals like logistics education, mining, automobile and robotics as potential use-cases

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Should you really await your second ‘marshmallow’?

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-05-10T10:34:04+00:00

A money-back policy does not match a retirement goal; a whole life endowment plan does not match a child’s education needs; does the promise match the goal of your wait?

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NDA leaders meet Assam Governor, stake claim to form govt

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-05-10T10:32:30+00:00

This will be the third successive NDA government in Assam, with the saffron party-led administration first assuming power in 2016, which was headed by Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

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How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-05-10T10:17:36+00:00

Replacing a leader is difficult, as Jeremy Corbyn proved – but MPs can apply pressure, publicly or privatelyMany Labour MPs believe Keir Starmer will not survive as Labour leader for long enough to fight the next election. What they cannot agree on, however – even after a disastrous set of results in this week’s elections – is how his departure might come about.The Labour rulebook makes it notoriously difficult to unseat a party leader: none has been formally ejected in the postwar period, though some, including Tony Blair, have resigned under pressure from their own MPs. Continue reading...

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