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2026-03-30 06:04:37 (16 hours ago)

Rob Schneider calls on US to restore military draft

The actor and comedian, posting on X, said that ‘unlike in today’s universities’ the military would teach young people ‘how truly great their country is’

The actor and comedian Rob Schneider has urged the US to “restore the military draft for our nation’s young people” amid the ongoing war with Iran.

Posting on X, Schneider, 62, who has not served in the military, wrote:

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-03-30 06:03:22 (16 hours ago)

Land Day in Gaza: Between memory and the fight for what remains

In Gaza, Land Day highlights transformation from historical land rights to survival under war, siege and displacement.

France 24 - World News

2026-03-30 06:00:27 (16 hours ago)

What do we know about the failed bomb attack against Bank of America in Paris?

French investigators suspect that the Iranian state is behind the attempted attack on Bank of America in Paris on March 29. Three suspects, all minors, area now in police custody, including those who attempted to detonate the explosive device. The Minister of the Interior suspects that the operation was carried out by intermediaries acting on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-03-30 06:00:17 (16 hours ago)

Homan fires back at CBS host on DHS shutdown blame, points to Democrats as the culprit

Tom Homan said Democrats were responsible for the DHS shutdown on CBS’ "Face the Nation," where Margaret Brennan challenged him over Republican control of Congress and the White House.

Le Monde - World News

2026-03-30 06:00:10 (16 hours ago)

Israel braces for delayed economic fallout of war in Iran

Shielded by its energy production model and a large proportion of its GDP being based on the service economy, Israel has so far only suffered limited economic impact from its conflict with Tehran. But it now faces the risk of a delayed shock.

The Guardian - World News

2026-03-30 06:00:08 (16 hours ago)

‘This was the real thing’: Meet the woman who alerts the world when an asteroid could hit

Aarti Holla-Maini of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs is primed to spot a potential planetary strike – and a year ago, she thought the moment had come

The UN official had trained for this moment. She had run drills and table-top exercises at her offices in Vienna, housed inside a grey and unassuming 1970s concrete tower complex next to the Danube River.

Aarti Holla-Maini, a British lawyer with a background in the satellite business, needed to have at least played out the scenario step by step. As the director of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), she was required to know exactly what she was expected to do if – and it was a big if – she were informed that a significantly large asteroid was on a possible collision course with Earth. Or, as she says with a laugh: “Armageddon.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-03-30 06:00:07 (16 hours ago)

I took off my headphones – and noticed a stranger in peril

Slumped on the pavement, she wasn’t breathing – and I wouldn’t have realised if I’d been listening to music as usual. Time to stop blotting out the world …

For years I walked the streets of London wearing noise-cancelling headphones, absorbed in playlists, politics podcasts or long voice notes from friends, and a million miles away from wherever I was. One damp January evening last year, I was walking home from my parents’ house, headphones dead in my bag, when I noticed a small figure slumped on the pavement with her eyes closed. I might not have noticed her had I been in my own world, fixated on what was playing in my ears.

I asked for her name. “Can you hear me?” I tried several times, my voice tightening. She didn’t respond, and worse, she didn’t seem to be breathing. My mind raced back to the one first aid class I took in school, but drawing a blank and worried that I might get it wrong, I dialled 999 and frantically tried to figure out if I could feel her pulse.

The Guardian - World News

2026-03-30 06:00:07 (16 hours ago)

For Democrats, fighting Trump isn’t enough anymore

A New York congressional primary is exposing the gap between Democrats who want to fight Trump and Democrats who want to fight for something

The Democratic party seems more united than it has been in years, thanks to one man: Donald Trump. Opposition to his presidency has papered over what would otherwise be serious disagreements about economic policy, civil liberties, foreign affairs, and the role of corporate money in politics.

As long as Democrats can point to Trump as the common enemy, their coalition holds, and the ideological conflicts that once defined the party during the 2016 primary or the battles over the Gaza genocide during the Joe Biden years now feel like a thing of the past. But those divisions haven’t disappeared – and in New York’s 10th congressional district, they’re beginning to surface again.

The Guardian - World News

2026-03-30 06:00:07 (16 hours ago)

Positive thinking helps you age better? That’s the worst thing I’ve heard all month | Emma Beddington

If you’re the glass-half-full type, you should be overjoyed at the news coming out of Yale School of Public Health. But pessimists like me? We’re stuffed

There’s bad news for me and my fellow Eeyores (there always is): a positive mindset could help you age better. Research led by Prof Becca Levy of the Yale School of Public Health interrogated over-65s on their attitudes to ageing, following them for up to 12 years, and found that those with positive beliefs about ageing were more likely to be in the 45% whose physical or cognitive function improved over the study period.

If you’re a glass-half-full type, you’re probably thinking that nearly half of the over-65s studied upping their physical or cognitive performance over a period of years seems like great news. As the research says: “If this finding was extrapolated to the entire US population, it would suggest that more than 26 million older persons are experiencing an improvement in functioning.” And yes, even I have to admit that this is a heartening and stereotype-busting surprise.

The Guardian - World News

2026-03-30 06:00:06 (16 hours ago)

College Republicans director made racist and sexist remarks on live streams

Review of Kai Schwemmer’s broadcasts undermines claim ‘process of growth’ had led him to abandon bigoted views

The newly appointed College Republicans of America political director Kai Schwemmer has made racist, antisemitic, homophobic and sexist statements while espousing extremist rightwing views on abortion, a Guardian review of livestream recordings can reveal.

Schwemmer said he would accept a world in which slavery was legal if abortion was criminalised, describes himself as “very much an anti universal suffrage guy” and accepts a supporter’s description of him as “our Mormon Nick Fuentes” – referring to the white nationalist influencer whose platform he streamed on for years.

The Guardian - World News

2026-03-30 06:00:06 (16 hours ago)

​​Being Ola review – a sweet and gentle film about disability, friendship and abandonment

Documentary follows a resident of a Norwegian village for people with learning disabilities, spotlighting his connection with a Danish care worker

This is a sweet, slight, gentle film about Ola Henningsen, a man in early middle age with a round, placid face who lives in a village community in eastern Norway for people with learning and developmental disabilities. (The original title in Norwegian translates as Ola: A Completely Ordinary Unusual Guy.) Director Ragnhild Nøst Bergem interviews Ola and follows him around the village; Ola describes himself as “slow” and yet also appears perfectly intelligent and articulate.

But the film shows us something over and above this: Ola’s relationship with Lasse, a Danish care worker who once lived in the community alongside the residents, helping with activities, and who did nothing to discourage Ola thinking of him as his “best friend”. But Ola was clearly very hurt, even heartbroken, when Lasse (inevitably) had to leave the community and go back to Copenhagen because his employment term had come to an end. The second part of the film shows Ola going on a trip to see Lasse (which would have been impossible without Bergem accompanying him as his carer) and to some extent confessing to him his feelings of abandonment.

CBC News - Top Stories

2026-03-30 06:00:00 (16 hours ago)

Manitoba denying trans refugee's request for name change because it won't accept her ID

A Ukrainian refugee says Manitoba's rejection of her requests to help her remove her deadname from official documents leaves her exposed to transphobia and infringes on her right to express her gender.