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The 2025 Toyota 4Runner is approaching its debut, and the company has released another piece to tease us ahead of its reveal, which will be next Tuesday, April 9. The short video posted on social media shows the new 4Runner will keep its power rear window, and we also catch a glimpse of its interior features. We've previously spied a camouflaged version of the new mid-size SUV, and Toyota has also already teased its new rear end. Get ready, folks. The new 2025 Toyota 4Runner will be revealed next week on Tuesday, April 9. Toyota today announced the debut date for its po[CENSORED]r mid-size SUV along with another teaser, this time a short video showing a couple of the next-generation 4Runner's features. In a 10-second video clip posted on Toyota's social-media channels, we see the upper rear section of a blue 4Runner as its power rear window slides down to show "April 9." Along with confirming that the new 4Runner will retain its distinctive sliding rear glass and announcing the date the SUV will be revealed, we also get a sneak peek at its interior. It's no secret that the next-gen Toyota 4Runner will share a platform with the recently redesigned Toyota Tacoma pickup. So obviously the two will share myriad other parts, including the truck's available 14.0-inch touchscreen. That much is clear in today's teaser video, but we can also see from the color of the front seats that the new 4Runner will offer dark brown upholstery that we think looks handsome. Before today's news, Toyota released a teaser of the '25 4Runner's rear bumper on its Instagram. We also caught an exclusive glimpse of a prototype version of the SUV covered in camouflage while testing in the near Toyota's R&D facility in southeast Michigan. Now we can all look forward to next week when the covers come off and we get our first chance to see new 4Runner in all of its glory. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60396272/2025-toyota-4runner-teaser-video-reveal-date-confirmed/

The US president has criticised Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war but says he ‘strongly supports Israel’ against any Iran ‘threat’. The White House says US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that 'policy with respect to Gaza will be determined' by the US's assessment of Israel's steps to protect civilians [File: Tom Brenner/Reuters] Washington, DC – United States President Joe Biden has pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to implement “specific, concrete and measurable” steps to protect civilians and aid workers in Gaza, the White House said after a phone call between the two leaders. The call was the first direct communication Biden and Netanyahu have had since an Israeli attack killed seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers earlier this week. On Thursday, Biden appeared to scold Netanyahu, according to a White House statement describing the talks. “President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,” the White House said. Biden also “made clear that US policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action” to address the harm and suffering. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby later suggested that there would be consequences for Israel if it does not increase the flow of aid into Gaza and take measures to safeguard civilians and humanitarian workers. But he declined to provide details. “I’m not going to preview any potential policy decisions coming forward. What we want to see are some real changes on the Israeli side. And if we don’t see changes from their side, there’ll have to be changes from our side,” he said on Thursday. So far, the Biden administration has ruled out placing conditions on aid and weapon transfers to Israel. It has also repeatedly supported Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as necessary to crack down on the Palestinian group Hamas. “We are still supporting Israel’s ability to defend itself against this still-viable threat,” Kirby told reporters on Wednesday. “And that’s going to continue.” Kirby reiterated that stance on Thursday, saying the US “still has an ironclad commitment to help Israel with its self-defence”. According to US media reports, the Biden administration authorised the transfer of thousands of military articles to Israel, including 900kg (2,000-pound) bombs, in recent weeks. The Biden administration has also refused to criticise or condemn an Israeli air raid on an Iranian consulate in Damascus that killed seven people, including an Iranian commander. Diplomatic facilities are protected under international law, and Washington itself has warned against expanding the conflict in Gaza into a regional war. During Thursday’s call with Netanyahu, however, Biden voiced support for Israel against possible Iranian retaliation, according to the White House. “The two leaders also discussed public Iranian threats against Israel and the Israeli people,” it said. “President Biden made clear that the United States strongly supports Israel in the face of those threats.” The call came amid reports in US media that Biden is increasingly angry at Netanyahu over the mounting death toll and indiscriminate attacks in Gaza. Biden himself expressed outrage at Monday’s Israeli strike that killed the World Central Kitchen workers, including one US citizen, calling for a swift Israeli investigation that would “bring accountability”. “This conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many aid workers have been killed,” Biden said in a statement on Tuesday. “This is a major reason why distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza has been so difficult — because Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians.” Still, the administration has signalled that it will continue its weapon transfers to Israel. Both the White House and the US Department of State said this week that the US has not found Israel to be in violation of international humanitarian law despite reports accusing its military of abuses. On Thursday, Kirby also said that the US will wait for Israel to conclude its own probe into the incident. But rights groups have argued that Israel should not be trusted to investigate itself. Israeli authorities rarely prosecute their own soldiers and commanders despite apparent rights violations in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Moreover, rights advocates have expressed scepticism towards the Biden administration’s call for accountability. In 2022, the Biden administration similarly urged accountability after Israeli forces shot and killed Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh. But despite acknowledging that its soldiers fired the fatal bullet, Israel dismissed the incident as a mistake, and the US walked back its call for accountability. Initially, the Biden administration defined accountability as prosecuting the perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law. It later said accountability can be achieved by revising Israel’s rules of engagement, so similar incidents would not happen again. The Israeli government, however, openly rebuffed Washington’s calls for reform. “No one will dictate our rules of engagement to us,” then-Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said at that time. The White House did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment on how accountability can be achieved in the World Central Kitchen workers strikes. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/4/biden-presses-netanyahu-for-steps-to-protect-civilians-in-gaza-white-house

Former US President criticises Israel for releasing ‘most heinous’ videos of air strikes in Gaza. US President Donald Trump has warned that Israel is losing international support for its war in Gaza [Evan Vucci/AP Photo] Former United States President Donald Trump has warned that Israel is “losing the PR war” in Gaza because of the flood of distressing images coming out of the enclave. In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, Trump criticised Israel for releasing the “most heinous” and “most horrible” videos of buildings being destroyed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza. “And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings … and they don’t like it, and I don’t know why they released, you know, wartime shots like that,” Trump said. “I guess it makes them look tough. But to me, it doesn’t make them look tough. They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.” Asked if he was still with Israel “100 percent”, Trump did not answer directly, but said Israel should get the war “over with fast” and “get back to normalcy”. “And I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory. You have to have a victory, and it’s taking a long time,” he said. Trump has described himself as the most pro-Israel president in US history, pointing to his decision to relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem. But Trump has also harshly criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who provoked the Republican’s ire when he acknowledged US President Joe Biden was rightfully elected in 2020. In an interview with Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom last month, Trump issued a similar warning about Israel losing international support as the conflict dragged on. Trump has also criticised US President Joe Biden’s policy on the Gaza war, going as far as claiming that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel”, although he has not outlined in concrete terms how he would approach the conflict differently. On Thursday, the White House said Biden had warned Netanyahu in a phone call that continuing US support for the war would depend on “specific, concrete, and measurable steps” to protect civilians. Biden’s warning, his strongest yet, came after the Israeli military killed seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen, including a US-Canadian citizen. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/5/trump-says-israel-losing-pr-war-in-gaza-should-finish-war-fast

‘It’s the support you don’t even know you need …’ Bethany and Rachael on their wedding day in July 2022. Photograph: Winston Sanders Rachael, 40, and Bethany, 38, bonded over their love of a TV show, not imagining this would lead to a romantic relationship. They now live together in Norfolk Before the pandemic, Bethany was travelling around the UK regularly for her job with an educational charity. “I was staying at lots of unglamorous hotels,” she laughs. “It was a lovely job, but quite lonely and I couldn’t join any evening classes as I was away so much.” She began looking for online groups and soon found a Twitter community for fans of the TV show Good Omens, which she’d been watching. “I discovered this lovely group of people and found out there would be a small convention for the show’s fans to raise money for an Alzheimer’s charity.” The convention was being run by Rachael, who was based in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. “I had recently moved back to the UK after working in the US and Australia,” she says. Once home, she found a job in education content, but struggled to build a network of friends locally. “When this new show came out I wondered if there might be some interest in a convention. I’d organised them before for Star Trek and Harry Potter events. I thought people could come, dress up, play games and meet like-minded people.” She found others who were interested through a Twitter call out, and set up a group online. Bethany was impressed by Rachael’s commitment. “She seemed invested in creating a warm atmosphere,” she says. “I liked being in a group where I could be geeky and proud.” She offered to help with the planning, which Rachael was grateful for. In July 2019, the pair met in London to take some photos for the event. After the convention, they met up regularly for theatre trips and their friendship continued to grow. “I was living in Peterborough with my mum, and Rachael was in Beaconsfield, so it meant we’d stay with each other for a few days at a time,” says Bethany. Although they shared a strong bond, neither ever imagined anything romantic would happen between them. “I’ve had relationships with all genders before and I found Bethany attractive, but I thought she was straight,” says Rachael. In 2019, Bethany was coming towards the end of her marriage, and had never considered the possibility of being with a woman. But after splitting from her husband, she found herself wondering if there could be a spark with Rachael. “At first, I wondered if I was feeling attracted to her because she was being so kind to me at a difficult time,” says Bethany. “But then I realised it was definitely different to other friendships. I’d never felt such a strong attachment.” The pair after they got engaged. Photograph: Supplied image In early 2020, they shared a kiss. They went on holiday together shortly after, returning to the UK during lockdown. Making a snap decision, they agreed to move into a flat in Milton Keynes together so they didn’t have to be apart. “Before that, we hadn’t spent more than a few days together but we got on so well,” says Bethany. “We then moved to Heacham on the north Norfolk coast in 2021.” In the early days of their relationship, they bonded over watching Netflix’s Tiger King and old box sets, but since then they’ve enjoyed travelling, going to restaurants and starting up the Good Omens convention again. They married in July 2022 with a Good Omens-themed wedding. “We’d proposed to each other at the same time at a bandstand in Milton Keynes, which is an iconic location in the show,” says Bethany. Sadly, her mum became unwell with cancer a few weeks before the wedding, and died shortly afterwards. “She managed to watch it online holding a glass of champagne,” says Bethany. “Rachael was then hospitalised with complications from asthma and Covid, so it was a hard time for both of us.” The pair relied on each other to get through it. “It’s the support you don’t even know you need, like Rachael helping me to clean my mum’s house after she died. It means you don’t worry about things you can’t focus on.” Later the same year, Rachael made the decision to change careers and became a teacher, which Bethany fully supported. Rachael loves how kind and thoughtful her partner is. “Bethany always wants to talk about things to understand how I’m feeling,” she says. Bethany describes her wife as “joyful”. “She’s totally true to herself and when she laughs, everyone else laughs, too. Coming home to someone who will make you feel better if you’ve had a bad day and celebrate the good times is the best thing.” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/04/how-we-met-i-found-bethany-attractive-but-i-thought-she-was-straight

Yorkshire’s 2024 county cricket squad. MPs have asked the ECB to keep a ‘close eye’ on the county’s progress with regards to diversity. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images MPs have called on the England & Wales Cricket Board to monitor Yorkshire closely, apparently out of concern that the county will waver from its commitment to diversity and inclusion after Colin Graves’s return as chairman. In a report published on Friday the culture, media and sport committee asks the ECB to ensure “there is no return to the ‘business as usual’ that allowed a culture of discrimination to take root and thrive” at Yorkshire, and also to publish an update on its own attempts to make the sport more inclusive. In a separate development the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, announced on Friday an investment of £35m in grassroots cricket facilities and widening access to the sport within state schools, in the latest move to get one million more young people physically active by 2030. Graves, meanwhile, gave evidence to the committee for the first time in February, and in its report the CMS committee highlights a few inconsistencies and concerns that emerged during that hearing, pinpointing his explanation for delaying an apology for describing racist abuse at the club as “banter” for eight months, before eventually retracting the comments shortly before Yorkshire’s membership voted to ratify his return. They also note his denial of a Guardian report that he had initially submitted a bid for the club that was dependent on its demutualisation, of which they had documentary evidence. “Mr Graves eventually remembered his bid,” they note. “He nonetheless told us that he ‘had no ambition to own Yorkshire’ and that he did not believe the future of Yorkshire was best served being owned by him rather than the members. We agree.” The committee also heard from three members of the ECB’s Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, and from the ECB’s chair, chief executive and deputy chief executive. The ICEC had delivered a report that contained 137 recommendations and the CMS committee focused on areas where “there was disagreement between the recommendations and the ECB’s response” and identified “a reluctance to strengthen and widen sanctions for EDI [equity, diversity and inclusion] breaches in county cricket”. They concluded that the ECB should publish a progress report in September; the ECB had already committed to producing an annual progress report and the first is due later this year. Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, chair of the CMS committee, said: “The ECB has made welcome progress on fixing the problems facing cricket identified so powerfully in the ICEC report. To achieve its ambition for cricket to be the most inclusive sport in the country and truly welcoming to all it must be open on how it is backing up its words with actions “The start of the county cricket season is always a time for optimism, and we hope that members at Headingley can look forward to a successful future, with a board committed to a member-led club and a continued focus on tackling discrimination. The ECB should keep a close eye on progress to ensure Yorkshire continues going down the road to reform.” https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/05/cricket-yorkshire-ecb-colin-graves

Mayor makes offer after number of goats on Alicudi reaches six times human po[CENSORED]tion The number of goats has grown so rapidly in recent years that they started to gravitate to inhabited areas, causing havoc in gardens and even wandering into people’s homes. Photograph: Digital Zoo/Getty Images The mayor of a remote Italian island overrun by wild goats has offered to give the animals away to anyone willing to take one in. Riccardo Gullo came up with the novel idea after a recent census estimated the number of goats on the five-square kilometre Alicudi, the smallest of Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, was six times the island’s year-round po[CENSORED]tion of 100. The animals, adept at navigating Alicudi’s steep cliffs, once lived harmoniously alongside the human inhabitants and became as much of a tourist attraction as its dormant volcano. But their number has grown so rapidly in recent years that they started to gravitate from their usual abode at the top of the island towards the inhabited area, damaging lush green vegetation, causing havoc in gardens and allotments, knocking away portions of stone walls and even wandering into people’s homes, prompting demands for a solution. Alicudi, which is a two to three-hour boat ride from mainland Sicily, falls under the administration of the larger island of Lipari. The “adopt a goat” initiative was deemed to be the best way of managing the issue in the most compassionate way. “We absolutely do not want to even consider culling the animals, so we are encouraging the idea of giving them away,” said Gullo. “Anyone can make a request for a goat, it doesn’t have to be a farmer, and there are no restrictions on numbers.” People have until 10 April to make their request. “We have already had several phone calls, including from a farmer on Vulcano island who would like to take several goats as, among other things, he produces a ricotta cheese which is much appreciated,” added Gullo. “If someone has the capacity to domesticate a goat, it could be a beautiful and more humane way to control the issue.” Goats were first brought to Alicudi 20 years ago by, it is believed, someone who intended to breed the animals. But the plan fell by the wayside and the goats were left to their own devices. The problems caused by their growing po[CENSORED]tion were first highlighted by Paolo Lo Cascio, a former councillor, in 2008. “There needs to be a solution as the threat to the island’s vegetation is serious,” said Lo Cascio, who estimates the goat po[CENSORED]tion at 800 rather than 600. “But Alicudi is a very complicated island, first you have to access it and then try to capture all the goats. There should have been an intervention 10 years ago.” Gloria, who owns Golden Cafe Noir at Alicudi’s port, said the animals had become “unmanageable”. “They move around in packs and cause damage, there are just too many of them.” One used to come and sit under the table in her bar. “It was a bit of an attraction, but then you worried whether it might bite someone.” While she welcomed the initiative, she questioned its feasibility. Reaching the top of Alicudi, where the village is, involves a steep climb. “How will they bring the goats back down? Perhaps they would need a helicopter to transfer two or three at a time. It’s a nice proposal, but there is no logistical solution yet.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/04/get-your-goat-italian-island-overrun-by-the-animals-offers-to-give-them-away

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