UN rights body accuses Rwanda-backed militia of killing children in eastern DRC

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OHCHR says Tutsi-led M23 group killed three boys in Bukavu last week after capturing the city

The UN human rights office accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels of killing three children in Bakavu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo city they captured last week, expressing alarm at human rights violations by the militia.

“Our office has confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23 after they entered the city of Bukavu last week. We are also aware that children were in possession of weapons,” Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the UN’s Office of the high commissioner for human rights (OHCHR), said on Tuesday.

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New footage shows Delta plane flipping over in fiery crash landing in Toronto

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Accident at Pearson, Canada’s busiest airport, sent 21 to hospital including three in critical condition on Monday

Footage has emerged of the fiery plane crash at Toronto’s Pearson airport on Monday, showing the Delta Air Lines jet skidding along the runway and then flipping over, as a wing rips off and the tail is engulfed in flames. The crash, which occurred at Canada’s busiest airport, sent 21 people to the hospital, including three in critical condition.

Soon after the crash, mobile phone clips captured the harrowing moments when passengers escaped through the plane’s upside-down doors and into the bitter cold. Blasts of fire retardant hung in the air and some of the passengers stood dazed in the snow. Others unleashed a string of expletives as they processed the unfolding chaos.

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Hamas says it will hand over bodies of Bibas family and free six hostages

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Remains of Shiri Bibas and young sons Kfir and Ariel, whose deaths had not been confirmed, to be returned on Thursday

Hamas has said it will release six hostages from Gaza this week and hand over the bodies of four others, including the remains of two young children from the same family whose deaths had not previously been confirmed.

Khalil al-Hayya, a Hamas negotiator, said the four bodies to be handed over on Thursday would include those of 32-year-old Shiri Bibas and her sons, Kfir and Ariel, who were nine months old and four years old when Hamas abducted them from the Nir Oz kibbutz during the 7 October 2023 attack that ignited the Gaza war.

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4 thoughts on Trump’s new world order from foreign relations expert Richard Haass – NPR

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  1. 4 thoughts on Trump's new world order from foreign relations expert Richard Haass  NPR
  2. Opinion | A tour of Trump’s tangled foreign policy  The Washington Post
  3. Trump's approach to Russia-Ukraine war upends decades of American foreign policy  MSNBC
  4. Trump’s Ambition to Redraw the World Map Ignores Those Affected Most  The New York Times
  5. Trump’s foreign policy creates unprecedented global challenges  The Hill
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Ukraine and Europe made to sit outside as US and Russia sharpen their carving knives

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In this back-to-the-future world, Russia is fully restored to the top table, while the US envoys outdo each other to praise Trump

Ukraine was laid out on the glossy conference table in Riyadh on Tuesday, not to be dissected on this occasion, but rather for an initial inspection by the Americans and Russians, who have reserved the carving knives for future use.

No Ukrainians were present for these opening discussions on the country’s fate, or for the lunch of whole lamb and “symphony of scallops”, nor was anyone there representing the rest of the European continent. Whether they will be given a seat at the table before lines are drawn is far from clear. For now, they must wonder if they are among the “irritants” in US-Russia relations referred to by the US state department.

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Brazil mayor was shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost – but still lost in landslide

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José Aprígio da Silva was seriously hurt in October by assailants with assault rifles but police say it was faked

As campaign strategies go it was unorthodox and illegal: buy an AK-47, hire a pair of phony hitmen, and stage a fake assassination attempt against the mayor that would generate public sympathy and help him win a second term in power.

That, Brazilian police claim, was the gameplan last October when, on the eve of the local election, an armoured vehicle carrying José Aprígio da Silva came under fire in Taboão da Serra, a town on the outskirts of São Paulo.

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Russia says NATO states can’t enforce Ukraine peace, wants membership pledge scrapped – Reuters

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  1. Russia says NATO states can't enforce Ukraine peace, wants membership pledge scrapped  Reuters
  2. Russia hardens demands as it holds first talks with US and without Ukraine  Reuters
  3. Ukraine war latest: Russia won't accept Nato troops in Ukraine as part of any peace deal, says Lavrov  BBC.com
  4. ‘Completely Unacceptable’ – Lavrov Rejects Proposed European Troop Deployments to Ukraine  Kyiv Post
  5. Ukraine-Russia war live: Moscow ‘won’t accept Nato peacekeepers’  The Times
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Shark attacked tourist as she tried to take its picture in Turks and Caicos, authorities say – CNN

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  1. Shark attacked tourist as she tried to take its picture in Turks and Caicos, authorities say  CNN
  2. Shark Bites Tourist Who Was Trying to Take Photo of It  The New York Times
  3. Family of Tourist Who Had Both Hands Bitten Off by a 7-Foot Shark Recalls 'Nightmare,' Life-Altering Attack  PEOPLE
  4. Shark bites off woman’s hands when she tries to take photo  WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland
  5. Tourist loses both hands while snorkeling in Turks and Caicos after shark attacks during failed photo op  Fox News
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Top judge ‘deeply troubled’ by PMQs exchange on Gaza asylum case

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Lady Carr says politicians should respect judicial independence, as Starmer calls decision to grant family asylum a ‘legal loophole’

England and Wales’s most senior judge has written to Keir Starmer about an “unacceptable” exchange with Kemi Badenoch at prime minister’s questions, saying she was “deeply troubled” by the discussion on a Palestinian family’s asylum case.

Lady Sue Carr, the lady chief justice, criticised the Conservative leader’s questions about the case, in which a family from Gaza had applied through a scheme designed for Ukrainian refugees.

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Hamas says it will return bodies of four hostages including Bibas family – BBC.com

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  1. Hamas says it will return bodies of four hostages including Bibas family  BBC.com
  2. Hamas to hand over 4 Israeli hostages' bodies Thursday and 6 living hostages Saturday  NPR
  3. 6 Living Hostages Will Be Released to Israel This Weekend, Hamas Says  The New York Times
  4. Hamas says it will free 6 living hostages and hand over four bodies, accelerating Gaza releases  The Associated Press
  5. Hamas says it will free 6 living Israeli hostages on Saturday  Yahoo
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Republican proposes making Trump’s birthday a public holiday

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Claudia Tenney’s bill combining Flag Day with Trump’s birthday could face steep odds of success in Congress

A Republican congresswoman has proposed making Donald Trump’s birthday a public holiday, in an effort probably doomed to failure in Congress but obviously intended to curry favor with the president.

Claudia Tenney, a representative from New York’s Finger Lakes region, introduced legislation on Friday aiming to combine the US annual commemoration of Flag Day with a new observance of Trump’s birthday on 14 June, arguing that the president is “the most consequential … in modern American history”.

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‘We’re just terrified’: People evacuate homes after sinkhole appears on Surrey high street

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Water supply turned off in Godstone as 20-metre hole swallows up a garden

Villagers in Surrey have been forced to evacuate their homes over fears of an explosion after a large and expanding sinkhole appeared in the high street.

On Monday night, a sinkhole appeared on Godstone High Street. By Tuesday afternoon, it had grown to at least 20 metres, which led to water supplies being cut off and a garden being swallowed up.

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