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Mar 6, 2025 - World

Warning of hazards from ‘erratic’ storm that could make landfall between Friday and Saturday morningTropical Cyclone Alfred LIVE: latest news and updatesHow to prepare for a cycloneWhen and where is Cyclone Alfred likely to hit?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMillions of people in Queensland have hunkered down while residents in parts of northern New South Wales have been ordered to evacuate as Australia’s east coast prepares for wild weather brought by Tropical Cyclone Alfred.The slow-moving storm is now expected to make landfall in Queensland late on Friday or on Saturday morning, later than was forecast earlier in the week, after the category two system “spun around on itself” and briefly stalled overnight on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Mar 6, 2025 - World

Decision made after attempts to raise more funds had been unsuccessful, agency tells authoritiesFood rations for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been slashed in half by the World Food Programme, days after refugees in Kenya protested against a reduction to their rations.The WFP, which is funded entirely by voluntary contributions and provides assistance to more than 150 million people, said it did not have enough funds to continue to provide the full ration so would be reducing the food voucher to 726 Bangladeshi taka (£4.60) per person, from 1,515 taka. Continue reading...

Mar 6, 2025 - World

Chinese dissidents who have long looked at the United States as a model for the democracy they want in their own country are growing alarmed at President Donald Trump's rhetoric and actions.The New York Times reports that several Chinese journalists and activists are drawing parallels between what is happening in the United States now and the infamous "Cultural Revolution" that occurred in China under dictator Mao Zedong in the 1960s and 1970s."The young aides Elon Musk has sent to dismantle the U.S. government reminded some Chinese of the Red Guards whom Mao Zedong enlisted to destroy the bureaucracy at the peak of the Cultural Revolution," reports the Times. "Upon hearing President Trump’s musing about serving a third term, they joked that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, must be saying, 'I know how to do it' — he secured one in 2022 by engineering a constitutional change."ALSO READ: 'Confusing and callous': GOP senator takes direct shot at Elon Musk on his own appThese Chinese dissidents have also taken note of the sycophantic language used by Trump cabinet officials and official government social media accounts that appears even more extreme than the Chinese Communist Party's own propaganda."Even the CCP’s embassy posts, with all its propaganda, doesn’t spend every single day obsessively praising Xi Jinping,” Deng Haiyan, a critic of the Chinese government, recently observed.“I’m overwhelmed with a sense of familiarity — it feels so much like China,” Zhang Wenmin, an investigative journalist who left China to live in America two years ago, tells the Times. "I’ve just gotten out of the frying pan and into the fire."

Mar 6, 2025 - World

A UK court has ruled a will invalid after video footage showed a woman guiding her dying mother's hand to sign over her 700,000 pounds estate, awarding half to her brother who contested the will, citing manipulation and lack of independence.

Mar 6, 2025 - World

The far-right think tank, the Heritage Foundation, promoted a video on Wednesday of its economist E.J. Antoni, who agreed with President Donald Trump's position that tariffs are good. In his first term, Trump signed new trade deals with Canada and Mexico but has decided to increase tariffs on imports from those countries. As CBS News explained last month, Trump appears to believe that tariffs are passed on to the country to pay. PBS wrote in a fact-check that most economists, on both sides of the aisle, disagree with this assessment and believe it will hurt Americans most. ALSO READ: Revealed: A bitter feud is about to erupt in the GOP as Trump tries to sell party unityThe Heritage Foundation was one of the right-wing groups that disagreed with tariffs until Antoni's comments were posted. As CNN's Andy Kaczynski noticed, four Heritage Foundation posts attacking tariffs were on the group's website. According to the Internet Way Back Machine, one of those posts was deleted on Thursday. "Tariffs Are Never a Good Idea. Those on Aluminum Are Especially Bad," wrote Heritage Foundation researchers for the website in 2021. A Feb. 26, 2025, capture of the website (here) shows the post was still live. A March 6 capture of the site (here) shows it's gone. See Kaczynski's screen captures of Heritage Foundation posts opposing tariffs below. — (@)