July 8, 2025
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Six dead in easter weekend tragedy as giant waves slam Australia’s East Coast

A fisherman died on Sunday after being swept off rocks near Sydney, pushing the Easter weekend drowning toll in Australia to six, with two more still missing as massive swells continued to batter the country’s eastern coast.Emergency services were called to Wattamolla Beach, south of Sydney, where two people had been dragged into the surf […]

Alhurra, channel countering anti-US views in Middle East, ceases broadcast as Trump cuts funding

Alhurra, a US-funded Arabic-language news network created in 2004 to offer an American perspective in the middle east, will stop broadcasting and lay off most of its staff following the Trump administration’s move to halt financial transfers to government-backed media outlets, including Alhurra’s parent company, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN). The network was launched […]