Welcomes

• 行蹤飄忽的夜鶯在肯特郡的 Northward Hill 「表現良好」，但專家對棲息地流失表示擔憂 • 肯特郡 RSPB Northward Hill 的黎明大合唱是一場聲音的盛宴：悠揚的知更鳥、雙音節的杜鵑，以及白喉林鶯沙啞的鳴囀。甚至鄰近泰晤士河沼澤嘎嘎叫的鵝和哞哞叫的牛也加入了這場交響樂。 • 但在四月下旬，一位精力充沛的歌手搶盡了風頭。從西非抵達後的幾週內，夜鶯在夜晚和清晨都沉浸在複雜的歌聲中。

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...