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Alexei Navalny's mother and mother-in-law have laid flowers at his grave in Moscow the day after thousands of people attended his funeral in a public show of defiance.Both women, dressed in black, stood quietly at the opposition leader's burial place before leaving. Mr Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin's fiercest domestic critic, died at the age of 47 in an Arctic penal colony on 16 February. Image: Both women, dressed […]

The US military has carried out its first airdrop of aid into Gaza, where a quarter of the population is facing starvation.The joint effort with the Royal Jordanian Air Force, using C-130 Hercules transport planes, saw the US dropping 66 bundles containing more than 38,000 meals along Gaza's Mediterranean coastline. A US military official said planning was also under way for "potential follow-on airborne aid delivery missions".Since the war between […]

Lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic saw changes in newborn babies that may have protected them against allergies, according to a study.Infants raised when coronavirus social distancing restrictions were in place were found by Irish researchers to have more of the beneficial microbes acquired after birth from their mother, which could act as a defence against disease. The scientists believe this led "pandemic babies" to have lower than expected rates […]

Airdrops are a last resort. They are inefficient, inaccurate, expensive and dangerous.They are only chosen as an option when things are really desperate. The White House spokesman admitted as much just after President Biden announced that America would carry out airdrops into Gaza."There are no missions more complicated than humanitarian assistance airdrops," Admiral John Kirby said.Mr Biden's decision is all the more remarkable because America is dropping aid to counter […]

The Baltic states have an urgent message for the UK and other NATO allies about the threat posed by Russia: "Wake up! It won't stop in Ukraine."Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are teaching more of their citizens how to fight and have even announced plans to build a defensive line, including bunkers, along hundreds of miles of border that separates their territories from their much larger neighbour.Now, as concern grows within […]

At least 19 people have been injured, including three children, after a car struck a crowd of people waiting at a tram stop in Poland.The car then collided with three other vehicles as the driver tried to flee, according to police. Two people were reportedly critically injured in the incident in the northwest city of Szczecin, near the German border.The crash occurred at a busy crossroads around 4pm local time, […]

Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire owner of Tesla and X, is suing artificial intelligence company OpenAI, accusing the firm of prioritising profit over developing AI for the public good. Mr Musk is bringing the suit against OpenAI, which he co-founded, and its chief executive, Sam Altman, for breaching a contract by reneging on its pledge to develop AI carefully and make the tech widely available. The company behind the ground-breaking generative […]

At two Texas border towns both President Biden and former President Trump made duelling visits. They were 300 miles apart but with an identical aim, to eke out political advantage from the immigration crisis which will be one of the defining issues of the 2024 election. The Biden administration has presided over a record number of border crossings, a surge which Republicans have used to characterise the president as being […]

At least 43 people have died in a fire that broke out at a six-storey shopping mall fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Health minister Samanta Lal Sen said that the blaze broke out late on Thursday at a restaurant in the Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall, and quickly spread to other floors. By Friday morning, at least 43 had died and 22 others were left with severe burns and were in a […]