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EU opens up funding to guarantee abortion rights across bloc

Women in EU member states with near-total abortion bans, such as Poland, will be given help to access legal and safe abortions elsewhere, it was announced on Thursday. This is being hailed as a “victory for women” and was the result of the My Voice, My Choice citizens’ initiative. Nice to see democracy working properly for a change!

Tennessee Republicans try to introduce the death penalty for abortions

A number of Republican state lawmakers, including representative Monty Fritts, who is also running for governor, recently introduced an amendment to the criminal code which would classify abortion as “homicide of an unborn child”, punishable by life imprisonment or death by lethal injection. It looks like this bill will stall indefinitely, but the fact that it was even introduced shows just how far right the Overton window has shifted.

Palestinian journalists raped in Israeli prisons, report alleges

Almost 60 Palestinian journalists detained in Israeli prisons have been beaten, starved and subjected to sexual violence, including rape, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alleges. Another CPJ report, released on Wednesday, found Israel is responsible for two-thirds of a record 129 press killings in 2025 and to blame for 81% of “intentionally targeted” journalist killings.

 

Israel continues to kill Palestinians daily during the Gaza ‘ceasefire’

“At least 425 Palestinians have been killed and over 1,200 wounded over the past three months of the ‘ceasefire’ – a rate of nearly five Palestinians killed every day,” Drop Site News reports. The fact the media persists in causing the horror show in Gaza a “ceasefire” shows how little Palestinian lives matter. Do you think it would be called a ceasefire if nearly five Israelis were being killed daily?

 

Mike Pompeo wants “to make sure history books don’t write about the victims of Gaza”

The former US Secretary of State received rapturous applause at a pro-Israel conference on Tuesday after saying that “we need to make sure that the story [of October 7] is told properly so that when the history books write this, they don’t write about the victims of Gaza, right?” The good news for Pompeo is that journalism is supposed to be the first draft of history, and there is precious little journalism coming out of Gaza – by design. The international press still isn’t freely allowed to report from Gaza, where babies are continuing to freeze to death.