Two suspected Ugandan rebels killed in Kampala explosion
A female suicide bomber and another suspected rebel were killed in a blast in Uganda’s capital city.
Inzaghi leaves Inter Milan amid Saudi Pro League interest
Inter Milan and Simone Inzaghi part ways after the Italian football club's defeat by PSG in the Champions League final.
South Korea election results 2025: Who won, who lost, what’s next?
Left-leaning Lee Jae-myung set to become president after conservative Kim Moon-soo concedes defeat.
Bill Gates vows to give most of $200bn fortune to African health and education
Tech mogul says: “Every country in Africa should be on a path to prosperity’
US tech mogul Bill Gates has pledged the majority of his $200bn fortune towards health and education services in Africa.
Speaking at an event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday, the 69-year-old said that his pledge would focus on “unleashing the human potential through health, through education” across the continent, adding: “Every country in Africa should be on a path to prosperity.”
Continue reading...Lee Jae-myung: from child labourer to leader of deeply scarred South Korea
New president faces formidable challenges that could plunge his term into crisis before it has even begun
Lee Jae-myung will need to draw on his considerable survival instincts as he attempts to steer South Korea out of the political morass of the past six months.
The liberal candidate, who on Tuesday became the country’s president at the third attempt after defeating his conservative rival, Kim Moon-soo, has promised to govern for all South Koreans – and for good reason. After a swift transfer of power that see him take office on Wednesday, Lee will inherit a deeply scarred country.
Continue reading...Walt Disney’s granddaughter denounces animatronic portrayal of animation legend
Joanna Miller said her grandpa would hate the mechanical replica to be debuted in July, calling it an ‘imposter’
Walt Disney’s granddaughter has condemned the entertainment giant he founded for re-creating the late entrepreneur as a soulless “robotic grampa” for the 70th anniversary celebration of California’s Disneyland theme park in July.
Disney, who died in 1966, will appear as an animatronic figure in a new attraction called Walt Disney – A Magical Life in the park’s Main Street Opera House that commemorates the resort’s 17 July 1955 opening.
Continue reading...Lee Jae-myung wins election as South Korean president
Liberal who led campaign to oust Yoon Suk Yeol wins race as conservative opponent concedes defeat
Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung has won the vote to become South Korea’s new president after a snap election triggered by a brief period of martial law imposed by the now-impeached former leader, Yoon Suk Yeol.
With 100% of the ballots counted, Lee won 49.42% of nearly 35 million votes cast, while his conservative rival Kim Moon-soo had taken 41.15%, according to national election commission data, which said turnout was the highest for a presidential election since 1997.
Continue reading...Pornhub pulls out of France over age verification law – BBC
Colorado firebombing suspect facing federal hate crime charges
The suspect in the attack of a Colorado group calling for the release of Israeli captives is facing hate crime charges.
Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to Russia with underwater explosives – The Guardian
- Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to Russia with underwater explosives The Guardian
- Russia’s Crimean Bridge rocked by explosions, Ukraine’s SBU claims responsibility. The Kyiv Independent
- Ukraine claims new underwater bomb attack on Russia's Crimean Bridge ABC News
- Crimea bridge reopens after Ukraine says it carried out underwater explosion BBC
- Ukraine Reports Striking Russia-Crimea Bridge With Underwater Explosives The New York Times
Who’s onboard the Madleen Gaza flotilla, and where has it reached so far?
The 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, is expected to reach Gaza on June 7.
Yvette Cooper quizzed over immigration and prisons crisis – UK politics live
Home secretary appears to accept early release proposals will put more pressure on police as she is questioned at select committee
Defence sources believe that Britain will be forced to sign up to a target of lifting defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2035 at this month’s Nato summit after a campaign by the alliance’s secretary general to keep Donald Trump onboard, Dan Sabbagh reports.
Later today the data (use and access) bill will return to the Commons from the Lords in the third round of “ping pong” between the two houses. It is not unusual for “ping pong” to go on for a round or two, as bills which are almost ready for royal assent shuttle between the elected and unelected chamber while they try to resolve matters of dispute. But, in this case, the Lords are digging in a bit more than usual.
The government has been accused of “supporting thieves”, as it suffered a further heavy defeat at the hands of peers pressing their demand for steps to safeguard the creative industries against artificial intelligence.
The fourth and latest setback for the Labour frontbench over the issue in the House of Lords was inflicted despite pleas by a minister for the upper chamber to end its prolonged stand-off over the data (use and access) bill.
Continue reading...Police Renew Searches in Madeleine McCann Investigation in Portugal – The New York Times
- Police Renew Searches in Madeleine McCann Investigation in Portugal The New York Times
- Madeleine search officers dig at abandoned building on day one BBC
- Portuguese and German police renew search for Madeleine McCann The Guardian
- Inside the search for Madeleine McCann on clifftop scrubland near Praia da Luz The Independent
- The Madeleine McCann case is reopened after finding 'something substantial' MARCA
Black schoolgirl Child Q strip-searched by Met officers suffered mental harm, hearing told
Girl’s lawyer tells police misconduct hearing that she felt ‘physically violated’ by incident at her London school
A black schoolgirl suffered mental harm and felt “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police, a misconduct hearing for three officers has been told.
The girl, who was 15 at the time and has been known as Child Q, was strip-searched in December 2020 at her school in Hackney, east London, while menstruating, having been wrongly accused of possessing cannabis.
Continue reading...Four Liverpool parade crash victims named after judge lifts anonymity order
Judge rules continuing reporting restrictions could risk setting precedent contrary to the principle of open justice
A judge has lifted an order preventing four adult victims of bank holiday Monday’s alleged attack at Liverpool FC’s title parade from being named.
Paul Doyle, 53, is accused of the unlawful wounding with intent of Simon Nash, 52; causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent to Susan Passey, 77, and Christine Seeckts, 66; and the attempted GBH of Ethan Gillard, 18.
Continue reading...Keir Starmer facing scrutiny over failure to establish new ethics watchdog
Commons inquiry to examine lack of progress in fulfilling manifesto pledge to set up ethics and integrity body
No 10 is facing scrutiny over its failure to bring in a new ethics watchdog almost a year after the election, as a new inquiry was launched to examine the seeming lack of progress.
Amid signs that the plans have been kicked into the long grass, parliament’s public administration committee said it was launching an inquiry to push the government on what has happened to its ethics commitments.
Continue reading...Five killed in attack on UN aid convoy in Sudan
The UN says it is "devastating" that the aid did not reach civilians in "famine-stricken" el-Fasher.
Millions of legal immigrants’ lives upended after social security freeze
Program halted suddenly, leaving legal immigrants unable to work due to lack of US social security number
Millions of legal immigrants may be left unable to work after the US Social Security Administration quietly instituted a rule change to stop automatically issuing them social security numbers.
The Enumeration Beyond Entry program is an agreement between the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security, where US Citizenship and Immigration Services would provide social security with information from applicants for work authorization or naturalization.
Continue reading...FIFA Club World Cup 2025: Full list of qualified clubs
The 32 teams are confirmed before June 14 tournament start with Real Madrid, PSG and Inter Miami among the big names.
More than four million people have fled Sudan amid war, UN says
UN official says the 'devastating milestone' shows the damage of the displacement crisis after two years of fighting.