China’s newest aircraft carrier transits Taiwan Strait for final tests
The state-of-the-art Fujian is in the final stages of testing before it officially joins China's navy.
California bill against foreign hits on diaspora splits Indian Americans
The bill comes amid growing concerns over alleged Indian government efforts to target Sikh dissidents in North America.
Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell given community work order for intimidating police officer and wife
Police officer gave evidence to Melbourne court about feeling ‘highly anxious’ over his and his family’s safety after Sewell’s podcast comments
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A neo-Nazi leader has been handed a community work order for intimidating a police officer and his wife.
Thomas Sewell, 32, was on Friday found guilty of three charges of intimidation of a law enforcement officer, and his wife, over targeted threats to expose his personal information.
Continue reading...Before and after satellite images show how Israel has destroyed Gaza City – Al Jazeera
- Before and after satellite images show how Israel has destroyed Gaza City Al Jazeera
- LIVE: Israel kills 65 in Gaza, Qatari PM meets top US officials Al Jazeera
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- Israel Has Ordered Everyone in Gaza City to Evacuate. Where Will They All Go? The New York Times
Before and after satellite images show how Israel has destroyed Gaza City
Images show how neighbourhoods across Gaza's largest city have been levelled in recent months.
Steven Spielberg reflects on Jaws at 50: ‘I thought my career was over’
Director, marking new exhibition in LA, tells of chaotic filming – and says he’s ‘never seen so much vomit in my life’
Before Jaws became a cinematic classic, and the very first American “summer blockbuster”, director Steven Spielberg thought the 1975 film would be the last one he would be allowed to make.
Spielberg, who was just 26, had decided to shoot his second film, a thriller about a killer shark, on location on the east coast island of Martha’s Vineyard.
Continue reading...Ros Atkins on… Israel’s war in Gaza and proportionality
BBC Verify asked experts, in the UK and elsewhere, if Israel’s actions in Gaza have been proportionate.
Relax with Rembrandt: artist’s self-portrait to take a slow tour of England
National Trust-owned painting will be exhibited with a meditation option for art lovers to take a long, lingering look
The impulse to race around a gallery and take in as many wonderful paintings as possible can be hard to resist.
But art enthusiasts are being urged to slow down and take a lingering, meditative look at one of the great self-portraits when it is taken on an unhurried tour of England.
Continue reading...Hospices ‘on the brink’ financially if assisted dying is legalised
As House of Lords prepares to debate bill, Hospice UK says sector needs adequate funding for end-of-life care
Hospices are “on the brink” and two in five are making cuts this year despite the importance of end-of-life care if assisted dying becomes legal, the sector has warned before the first House of Lords debate on the legislation.
Hospice UK, which represents the sector, said many were financially struggling and still “in the dark” about how funding for end-of-life care will be improved when assisted dying legislation is passed.
Continue reading...Two police officers involved in Melbourne man’s fatal 2024 arrest named as they face court
Luke Briggs, 35, died in a hospital’s intensive care unit eight days after his arrest in Hoppers Crossing in July 2024
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Two police officers have faced court accused of unlawfully killing a man who died in hospital after his arrest inside a car park.
Cons Alexander Papanastassis, 29, and Sgt James Fitzgerald, 49, appeared in the Melbourne magistrates court on Friday morning for a brief hearing.
Continue reading...New clues in hunt for Charlie Kirk’s killer
BBC Verify’s Nick Beake has been looking at newly released footage of the suspect and what we know about his escape.
Charlie Kirk shooting: new video of suspect released by FBI amid urgent appeal for help from the public
FBI reward of $100,000 and direct appeals for public support appear to signal law enforcement’s continued struggles to identify the killer of Trump ally
US officials have issued an urgent appeal for help from the public as they continue to search for the shooter of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, releasing new videos and photos from the scene of the attack in Utah.
More than 24 hours after Kirk was shot while speaking in front of thousands of people at a Utah university, the state’s governor, appearing alongside FBI director Kash Patel and other officials, said “we need as much help as we can possibly get.”
Continue reading...Jail for Bolsonaro by no means signals the end of his political movement
With widespread support at home and from Trump, his heir will take the fight to Lula in the 2026 presidential election
Four years have passed since Jair Bolsonaro laid out three possible denouements for his extraordinary political career, during which the oft-ridiculed fringe politician rose to become one of leading lights of the global populist right alongside Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump.
“Going to jail, being killed or victory,” predicted Brazil’s then president as he grappled with a deluge of political crises in August 2021.
Continue reading...Relief for campaigners as five-star hotel on Milos’s famous ‘moon beach’ halted
Authorities revoke building licence for cascading hotel complex on one of Greece’s most photographed shorelines
Environmental campaigners have welcomed a decision to halt construction of a disputed five-star hotel on a Greek beach known for its outstanding natural beauty.
Local authorities on the Cycladic island of Milos said a building licence for the resort on the world-renowned “moon beach” had been revoked by the municipality’s planning department after falling short of inspection standards.
Continue reading...Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith
Exclusive: Governing council ‘retrospectively’ decides the Les Carlyon literary award should go only to first-time authors, ruling out Chris Masters’ book
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The Australian War Memorial has effectively overruled a decision by its appointed judges to award a military history literary prize to a book about the alleged war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith.
War memorial sources and documents seen by Guardian Australia show that an external judging panel chose Chris Masters’ book Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes as the 2024 winner of the Les Carlyon literary award for military history, after a panel comprising memorial employees had included it in a shortlist of six from 59 entries.
Continue reading...China Gives Mexico Stiff Warning Over Tariffs Seen Appeasing US – Bloomberg.com
- China Gives Mexico Stiff Warning Over Tariffs Seen Appeasing US Bloomberg.com
- China warns Mexico to 'think twice' before raising tariffs, threatens countermeasures CNBC
- Beijing Warns Mexico Against Tariffs That Could Harm Chinese Goods The Wall Street Journal
- Mexico acting ‘under coercion to constrain’ China with 50% tariff on cars, says Beijing The Guardian
- Mexican officials to speak with China on tariffs next week Reuters
‘Looks like a toy, but it’s real’: BBC examines a downed Russian drone
Drones like this one were shot down over Polish airspace in the early hours of Wednesday.
Watch: Video shows moment Kirk shooting suspect flees the scene
The video shows a figure dressed in black dropping from a roof at the Utah campus and fleeing towards a wooded area.
Trump to meet Qatar’s PM Friday in aftermath of Israeli strike in Doha – Axios
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- U.S. Joins U.N. Security Council’s Criticism of Israeli Strike in Qatar The New York Times
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- When You Try to Kill the Negotiators, Negotiations End The Atlantic
Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members amid reports vessel was returning to shore
Interior minister says ‘murder has been committed’ while US Congress demands justification for attack
None of the 11 people killed in a US military strike on a boat in the Caribbean last week were members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Venezuela’s interior minister has said, while US media reported the attack came after the vessel had turned around and was heading back to shore.
The administration of Donald Trump has said the boat was transporting illegal narcotics, but has provided little further information about the incident, even amid demands from members of the US Congress for a justification for the action.
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