Press review – Thursday, March 5: Mass exodus from southern Lebanon makes front pages. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been criticized, including by the US president’s own supporters, for its lack of clarity about its war with Iran. Plus, we get some bad news on global sea levels, but good news for Punch, a baby macaque at a zoo near Tokyo.
Front page of a French Catholic newspaper La Croix “Lebanon is trapped,” it reads. Liberation It tells the stories of tens of thousands of people forced to flee to the south of the country, some of whom leave with heavy hearts. Meanwhile, L’Orient-Le Jour Speculations about Israel’s next steps: the type of ground invasion, and Israeli hopes to dictate a new security order in southern Lebanon after disarming Hezbollah. The French-language Lebanese newspaper does not rule out the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran, which could have a knock-on effect on Lebanon by weakening Hezbollah’s number one backer.
Meanwhile in the US, Democratic lawmakers were stunned Wednesday by the Trump administration’s classified briefing on the war. The New Republic Lawmakers are less convinced than ever that there is a plan and are more fearful of deploying troops on US soil. politicsMeanwhile, a chaotic last-minute scramble to evacuate civilians, boost intelligence gathering and send drone defense systems into the region is provoking. After The outbreak of war indicates that the administration has taken the conflict to an unexpected scale. The New Republic Explaining that the “MAGA meltdown” is still in its infancy, meanwhile, prominent voices in the MAGAsphere speak out against the war, which they see as a betrayal of Trump’s “America First” policy.
In climate news, a new study shows that sea levels around the world have been incorrectly recorded and, in most cases, underestimated. The New York Times This means that hundreds of millions more people face the threat of rising sea levels than we realize.
Finally, Guardian Bringing us some good news for Punch, a monkey at Japan’s Ichikawa Zoo that was rejected by its mother and bullied by mobs, turned into an Ikea soft toy in the form of an orangutan. After a few miserable weeks with Teddy for comfort, his keepers are happy to say that he’s now interacting more with the other monkeys, even though he still curls up with his toy when it’s bedtime.
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