Welcomes

• 行踪诡秘的夜莺在 Kent 的 Northward Hill “表现良好”，但专家对栖息地丧失表示担忧。 • 位于 Kent 的 RSPB Northward Hill 的黎明合唱是一场听觉盛宴：婉转的知更鸟、双音调的杜鹃、白喉林莺沙哑的鸣啭。甚至来自邻近 Thames 沼泽的大雁嘈杂声和奶牛哞哞声也融入了这场交响乐。 • 但在 4 月下旬，一位活力四射的歌手占据了焦点。在从 West Africa 飞抵后的几周里，夜莺在深夜至清晨吟唱着复杂的曲调。在寻觅配偶和标记领地时，它的歌声时而像灵魂歌手般婉转动听，时而又像汽车警报器般紧迫。继续阅读...

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in the United States on Monday afternoon for a four-day trip, welcomed by self-proclaimed royal fan U.S. President Donald Trump even as the U.S. president ‌has ‌differed with the British government over the Iran war.

PM to meet partners in region to discuss effort to ‘support and sustain ceasefire’ and reopening the strait of HormuzSarah Jones, the policing minister, has been giving interviews. She has been talking about Keir Starmer’s visit to the Gulf, but hasn’t said anything that really adds to the (rather limited) information about the visit put out by Downing Street.Jones told Times Radio:[Starmer] is going to the Gulf for a number of reasons. Firstly you will have seen last week with the foreign secretary, and this week with our officials, where we have played a real leading role bringing together about 40 countries looking at the challenge that we have in the strait [of Hormuz] and how we can make sure that opens up as quickly as possible to bring some normality back to that system. so there will be that aspect.He wants to see the work of our brave personnel who are there in the region, of course, with our three very key principles of protecting British interests and protecting British citizens and our allies. He will want to see the work of that. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Pacific island’s new leader Lord Fakafānua discusses ‘exciting’ US partnership as critics fear impacts of seabed explorationThe recently elected leader of Tonga has described a deal to partner with the US on deep-sea mineral exploration as an “exciting development” amid concern in the small Pacific nation over the practice of seabed mining and the potential environmental impact.Tonga is located in the South Pacific Ocean, a region attracting growing interest over whether critical minerals buried in the seabed could be extracted to help power industries and green technologies. Continue reading...