Lyse Doucet: Nowhere else on Earth are so many children on the run
The BBC's Lyse Doucet writes about the horrific effects of the 19-month civil war in Sudan.
Bombshell police report details alleged Bolsonaro plot to stage rightwing coup
Former president accused of leading role in apparent scheme to overturn 2022 election defeat by rival Lula
Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has moved a step closer to jail after a federal police investigation laid bare what it called a murderous authoritarian plot to explode the country’s democratic system with a military coup that the far-right populist allegedly helped mastermind.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied involvement in an attempt to overturn the result of the 2022 presidential election, which he narrowly lost to his leftwing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Continue reading...Jeremy Bowen: The Lebanon ceasefire is a respite, not a solution for the Middle East
What the latest developments mean for Iran's position - and for the prospect of peace in Gaza
Democrats criticize Harris for ‘self-congratulatory’ review of election loss
Top campaign staff also under fire for saying party has to ‘dominate the moderate’ in Pod Save America appearance
Some Democratic figures have accused Kamala Harris’s campaign of being self-congratulatory after a series of recent public appearances from the candidate and her senior staff in which they declined to admit making any errors that could have contributed to her defeat.
Some of the criticism was aimed at Harris herself, following a video call to thank campaign donors in which the vice-president expressed pride in her failed race for the White House.
Continue reading...New York City found in contempt over conditions in city jails
Despite 2015 settlement and consent decree, judge says conditions have worsened over the last decade
A federal judge found New York City in contempt on Wednesday over conditions in its city jails, saying things have only worsened in the nine years since the city settled accusations of abuse and violence.
The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, in Manhattan issued a written ruling finding the city in contempt over 18 separate contempt claims.
Continue reading...Biden administration claims win with Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire – but will it hold?
Peace is shaky at best, as Israel will still strike targets in Lebanon and a power transition looms in the US
The Biden administration has claimed the long-awaited ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel as a diplomatic triumph achieved under tremendous pressure during a lame-duck period with a hostile Donald Trump administration waiting in the wings.
Speaking from a lectern in the Rose Garden of the White House, Joe Biden called the result “historic” and said that it “reminds us that peace is possible”. It would return civilians to their homes, he said, and had “determined this conflict will not be just another cycle of violence”.
Continue reading...France says Netanyahu is immune from ICC warrant as Israel is not member of court
Claim comes after Paris signalled it would fulfil obligations as signatory to Rome statute after arrest warrant issued
The French government has claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu has immunity from arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court for war crimes on the grounds that Israel is not an ICC member.
The claim came soon after Netanyahu’s cabinet agreed to a French-backed ceasefire in Lebanon and is in contrast to Paris’s attitude towards last year’s ICC war crimes warrant issued against Vladimir Putin, another leader of a non-member country.
Continue reading...Israel to appeal ‘absurd, baseless’ ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant – The Times of Israel
- Israel to appeal ‘absurd, baseless’ ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant The Times of Israel
- Cuomo joins Netanyahu’s legal defense team against ICC warrants as he mulls 2025 NYC mayoral run Fox News
- The International Criminal Court’s Folly The Atlantic
- France Casts Doubt on Arresting Netanyahu Under ICC Warrant The Wall Street Journal
- Israel has told ICC it will contest arrest warrants, Netanyahu says Reuters
Nano-scale dinosaur made by Australian researchers from DNA building blocks
Structures thousands of times narrower than a human hair suggest future uses for nanobot technology
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Australian researchers have created building blocks out of DNA to construct a series of nano-scale objects and shapes, from a rod and a square to an infinitesimally small dinosaur.
The approach turns DNA into a modular material for building nanostructures – thousands of times narrower than a human hair. Developed by researchers from the University of Sydney Nano Institute and published in the journal Science Robotics, it suggests exciting possibilities for future use of nanobot technology.
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Continue reading...Romania regulator calls for TikTok suspension amid vote interference fears
Far-right, pro-Moscow candidate Călin Georgescu came from 5% in polls to win presidential election’s first round
Romania’s telecoms regulator is asking for TikTok to be suspended as the country’s defence council prepares to discuss cyber risks to its elections, after a little-known ultranationalist came from nowhere to win the first round of the presidential vote.
The country’s constitutional court will also examine two allegations of electoral fraud after Călin Georgescu, a Moscow-friendly, EU-sceptic and anti-Nato independent, topped the ballot in a result that upended Romanian politics.
Continue reading...Israel’s ceasefire with Lebanon makes peace in Gaza ever less likely
Joe Biden may have revived diplomatic efforts, but after compromising in Lebanon, Netanyahu has even less leeway in Gaza
Joe Biden has revived diplomatic efforts to achieve a truce in Gaza with the hope of building on momentum generated by the newly agreed ceasefire in Lebanon.
There are doubts, however, that such momentum exists outside the Biden administration, which is anxious to use its last few weeks to salvage scraps of diplomatic honour after the bloody past 14 months in the Middle East.
Continue reading...French Socialists reject Barnier’s overtures, raising odds of a government collapse – POLITICO Europe
- French Socialists reject Barnier’s overtures, raising odds of a government collapse POLITICO Europe
- Over 50% of French people want government to fall, survey finds Reuters
- France’s Budget Crisis Deters Buyers Wary of Further Turmoil Bloomberg
- Marine Le Pen spooks the bond markets The Economist
- French markets hit by threat of government collapse Financial Times
French sovereign borrowing costs rise to highest premium in 12 years
Government faces risk of collapse over planned austerity budget
French sovereign borrowing costs have soared to the highest premium since the eurozone debt crisis amid political turmoil as the government faces the risk of collapse over a planned austerity budget.
The gap between French 10-year government bond yields and their German equivalent ballooned to as much as 90 basis points on Wednesday, the widest level in 12 years, while shares listed on the Paris stock exchange also tumbled.
Continue reading...Pakistan security forces accused of pushing man off containers
Video of a man seen praying then being approached by soldiers has been verified by BBC Verify.
‘Thank God we are home’: Lebanese return south after ceasefire with Israel
People are relieved to be home but face having to rebuild lives among destroyed homes and villages
Before the ceasefire had even come into effect, Zeinab and Dina were already driving south. The two sisters had been forced to flee to Tripoli, northern Lebanon, for 64 days – they had counted – and they could not bear another day without seeing home.
“We were laughing and crying at the same time when we heard the news of the ceasefire. We were packing our stuff and still we didn’t believe it was happening, it was like a dream,” said Zeinab, 28, a resident of the town of Zibqeen in south Lebanon.
Continue reading...Still counting its dead, Hezbollah faces long road to recover from war – Reuters
- Still counting its dead, Hezbollah faces long road to recover from war Reuters
- Lebanon war toll: Thousands dead, Hezbollah arsenal severely depleted - analysis The Jerusalem Post
- Uncovering Hezbollah subterfuge are a post-war priority Ynetnews
- Hezbollah's Road to Recovery: A Nation in Rebuild Devdiscourse
- US envoy Hochstein:: Hezbollah is degraded, what's the point of degrading it further? Arutz Sheva
Netanyahu says Israel to appeal against ICC arrest warrants over Gaza war
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel urged the court to suspend the warrants against him and Yoav Gallant.
US slaps sanctions on Venezuelan officials over post-election crackdown
The US says its sanctions target 21 individuals involved in anti-democratic practices and the repression of protests.
What we know about Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal
Israel will have 60 days to withdraw from Lebanon while Hezbollah must move north of the Litani river.
Dominique Pelicot has split personality caused by trauma, defence argues
Lawyer for man who drugged wife and invited strangers to rape her says she has felt like ‘devil’s advocate’
Dominique Pelicot, the French man on trial for drugging his wife and inviting strangers to rape her, has a split personality caused by the effect of childhood trauma, his defence lawyer has argued.
In her summing up on Wednesday, Béatrice Zavarro told the court in Avignon there were “two Dominiques”, one a man apparently devoted to his family and the other with a “certain perversity”.
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