Richard Powell is a British investigative journalist and foreign correspondent with more than two decades of conflict reporting, beginning in Kosovo as a journalism student, then Iraq, Sudan, Liberia and Beirut. He was on the Iraqi border before the first bomb fell in March 2003.Richard is the founder of news sites greatreporter and UKTECH, as well as the PR and Communications services firm, Presswire. He is also the author of the acclaimed book, Pariah: How Gaza Broke Israel (2026).
A rodent crisis linked to the devastation of Gaza has prompted a chemical response in Israeli farmland. The product named in that response has already killed pregnant gazelles and contaminated retail wheat, raising urgent questions about safeguards and exposure.
Reporting on starvation while hungry and displacement while displaced, the Palestinian journalist describes why she keeps documenting lives the world has failed to protect. Her testimony is accompanied by a record of famine, destruction and abuse assembled by international investigators and humanitarian agencies.
The European Publishers Council is writing again to the European Commission seeking urgent scrutiny of Meta’s proposed Commercial Terms and Self-Serve Ad Terms, warning that revised wording leaves fundamental concerns about publishers’ control over their content unresolved.
At an October 3, 2026, gathering of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine, physician Richard Low, MD, challenged a central assumption of healthcare AI: recording what physicians say is not the same as understanding their clinical reasoning.
Creative media group the SJH Group celebrated outstanding journalism as an official event sponsor of the London Press Club Awards 2026.
The CardTrack 100, a chain-linked index of the 100 most valuable Pokémon cards, has returned 152% since September 2021 with lower volatility than the S&P 500, but it fell 27% on the way and cannot be bought.
Students have faced suspensions, campus bans and threats to their immigration status as universities shared legal strategies and security planning to restrict Palestine activism, a new report finds.
A Channel 4 investigation exposes the gap between warnings inside Whitehall and decisions to keep supplying Israel, raising questions about a system critics say demanded answers only the accused could provide.
The European Publishers Council (EPC) warns that the Digital Omnibus negotiating position agreed by Member States today could have disastrous consequences for European journalism if adopted into law, cutting the revenues that fund reporting, pushing more quality news behind paywalls and leaving readers with fewer independent sources of information.
The company continues the European rollout of DBLG2 and prepares new features and expanded indications to simplify diabetes management and reach more people.
The commentary examines Rassvet's development, GPS-independent navigation and the protection of civilian infrastructure from threats that could originate within national borders.
AI translation smartwatch supports 73 online languages, under-one-second voice translation and OCR camera translation for travel and international communication.
Research collaboration will integrate Salmonella virulence-associated gene targets into PathogenDx’s SeroX D3 Array platform, with applications spanning poultry, pork and beef
Japanese prize cards that were never sold in packs took seven of the year’s ten biggest sales, as Pokémon card sales of $100,000 or more reached $162.3 million in 2026.
China is on course to overtake Britain on research spending by the end of 2026 — Three of the five measures would work through the tax system rather than new spending, returning more than twice their net cost, as China closes on Britain’s position in the G20 top five.
Palestinians sheltering near Israel’s expanding military boundary describe beatings, threats against children and relatives taken away by armed groups. Their accounts expose the civilian cost of a policy Israel has publicly defended as a way to fight Hamas while protecting its own soldiers.
Funding exceeded the company’s original target and will accelerate product development and commercial growth.
Half a million people in beseiged enclave set to lose World Food Programme assistance as winter approaches. UNRWA, other UN agencies and charities are still working, but their funding and delivery reports reveal a response stretched far beyond its resources.
Majed Bamya challenges the Security Council over unequal treatment of Palestinian lives, a ceasefire that has continued to claim children, and an independence process in which the occupying power sets the conditions.
A fresh warning over food supplies and an expanding Italian investigation provide a new context for the French proceedings against two women accused of complicity in genocide.
Oxford surgeon Nick Maynard describes testimony of genital torture and lasting injuries, as investigations document sexual violence against children, journalists and medical workers — and a persistent failure to hold perpetrators accountable.
The European Publishers Council (EPC) is highly concerned about an update to Meta’s new commercial terms that will allow the tech giant to scrape content from news sites and use that content to train the company’s AI products. The update comes into effect on 30th October and will impact any company with a Meta account.
A former Israeli intelligence chief’s assessment describes a worldview in which neighbouring states are weakened, democracy is subordinated and peace loses its value. Trita Parsi warns that Washington has helped make it possible.
Hundreds of promised military inquiries have no identifiable public outcome. Meanwhile, foreign journalists remain barred from independent entry, UN investigators’ requests go unanswered, and even Israel’s allies are condemning decisions to close cases without criminal investigation.
