Alice Weidel: The far-right leader shaping Germany’s AfD
As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.
Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct
Database, first proposed by Trump in 2020 and created by Biden administration in 2023, is now offline
Donald Trump’s second presidential administration shut down a national database that tracked misconduct by federal police, a resource that policing reform advocates hailed as essential to prevent officers with misconduct records from being able to move undetected between agencies.
The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which stored police records documenting misconduct, is now unavailable, the Washington Post first reported.
Continue reading...Mali’s army says investigating soldiers accused of killing 24 civilians
The Tuareg independence movement blamed soldiers and Russian mercenaries for the killing of civilians.
‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 child patients
Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him
When two gendarmes knocked on her door in 2019, Marie had no idea that she was about to find herself at the dark heart of one of the world’s biggest child abuse cases.
The French mother of three, now 38, was shocked when the officers told her she had been the victim of Joël Le Scouarnec, a surgeon and an alleged serial paedophile accused of raping and sexually abusing hundreds of children.
Continue reading...Hamas hands over six hostages but Israel delays release of 600 Palestinians
Ceasefire in jeopardy as Israel says it will wait ‘until release of next hostages is guaranteed’
Hamas released six Israeli hostages on Saturday, but Israel delayed the handover of more than 600 Palestinians it was due to free from its prisons in exchange, putting the five-week-old ceasefire agreement once more in jeopardy.
The government said the release would be delayed “until the release of the next hostages is guaranteed, and without the degrading ceremonies” at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza.
The statement by Benjamin Netanyahu’s office came as vehicles apparently carrying prisoners left the open gates of Ofer prison, only to turn around and go back in.
The release of 620 Palestinian prisoners had been delayed for several hours and was meant to occur just after six Israeli hostages were released on Saturday.
Three-year-old girl killed in collision in Manchester city centre
Greater Manchester police say girl died from her injuries after incident on Mosley Street involving tram and van
A three-year-old girl has been killed in a collision between a tram and a van in Manchester.
Greater Manchester police officers attended the scene on Mosley Street, near to St Peter’s Square, after the collision on Saturday morning.
Continue reading...Man Utd survive late VAR penalty drama to fightback for draw at Everton
Manchester United come from behind to draw at Goodison Park in the Premier League but late VAR drama enrages Everton.
‘You dream about such things’: Brit who discovered missing pharaoh’s tomb may have unearthed another
Archaeologist believes his ‘find of the century’ – of Pharaoh Thutmose II – could be surpassed by ongoing excavation
To uncover the location of one long-lost pharaoh’s tomb is a career-defining moment for an archaeologist. But to find a second is the stuff of dreams.
Last week British archaeologist Piers Litherland announced the find of the century – the first discovery of a rock-cut pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.
Continue reading...Woman charged in dating app druggings and one death of older men in Las Vegas
FBI says Aurora Phelps met men online for dating then drugged them and stole cars and money
A woman used online dating apps to lure at least four older men to meet her in person, drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, FBI officials in Las Vegas said on Friday.
Three of the men died, authorities said, and she has been charged in one of their deaths.
Continue reading...Shocked by Trump, Europe Turns Its Hopes to Germany’s Election – The New York Times
- Shocked by Trump, Europe Turns Its Hopes to Germany’s Election The New York Times
- German election: Parties wrap up campaigning DW (English)
- Germany is holding a national election. Here’s what’s at stake CNN
- Immigration and an ailing economy dominate Germany’s election as far-right eye gains NBC News
- Voters will head to polls in Germany elections CBS Chicago
Trump signs order protecting American companies from ‘overseas extortion’ – The Hill
- Trump signs order protecting American companies from ‘overseas extortion’ The Hill
- Trump threatens to launch tariff attack on EU tech regulation EURACTIV
- Trump orders trade chief to revive tariff retaliation against digital taxes Reuters
- Trump Weighs Tariffs to Counteract Foreign Taxes on Tech Firms The Wall Street Journal
- Donald Trump considers tariffs to counter digital services taxes on Big Tech Financial Times
A French ex-surgeon is accused of raping or abusing 299 victims. Most were child patients – The Associated Press
Suspect in Berlin stabbing wanted ‘to kill Jews’ — police – DW (English)
- Suspect in Berlin stabbing wanted 'to kill Jews' — police DW (English)
- Berlin Stabbing Extends Chain of Attacks Ahead of German Election The Wall Street Journal
- Man stabbed at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial days before crucial election The Guardian
- Syrian refugee arrested after Berlin stabbing as Germany prepares to vote Reuters
- Suspect in Berlin Holocaust Memorial attack was known to police Yahoo
Allowing racist tropes about Romani people to persist is dangerous
The myth of 'criminality' was once used to justify genocidal violence against the Roma. And yet it persists today.
Berlin stabbing suspect planned to kill Jewish people, police believe
Police say they are investigating whether the assailant is suffering from mental illness.
Seven New Zealand churches targeted in suspected arson spree
Four churches were burned while evidence suggests three more were targeted but did not catch fire.
Hamas releases six hostages as part of Gaza ceasefire deal – Axios
- Hamas releases six hostages as part of Gaza ceasefire deal Axios
- Family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says new returned body is hers BBC.com
- Pentagon Upheaval, Hamas Releases More Hostages, NY State Prisons NPR
- Human remains returned by Hamas to Israel confirmed as those of former hostage Shiri Bibas CNN
- Live Updates: Hamas Is Set to Release More Hostages From Gaza The New York Times
NHS doctor who ‘glorified terrorist violence’ wins deportation challenge
Home Office moved to cancel Menatalla Elwan’s leave to remain over posts on Hamas’s 7 October attack
An Egyptian NHS doctor who “glorified terrorist violence” by mocking Israeli civilians fleeing the Hamas attacks in October 2023 has won a legal challenge against deportation.
In one of three social media posts hours after the attacks began, Dr Menatalla Elwan, 34, who worked at an NHS trust in Liverpool, reposted footage of music festivalgoers running from Hamas terrorists and wrote “if it was your home, you would stay and fight”, accompanied by a smiling face emoji.
Continue reading...Watch: Six Israeli hostages released in Gaza
Four of the men were kidnapped on 7 October 2023, while the two have been held for a decade.
Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding
Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely
A newer variant of H5N1 bird flu has spilled over into dairy cows separately in Nevada and Arizona, prompting new theories about how the virus is spread and leading to questions about containing the ongoing outbreaks.
The news comes amid a purge of experts at federal agencies, including employees who were responding to the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Department of Agriculture.
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