- Over a hundred people jabbed with syringes at French music festival NBC News
- Terrifying trend emerges as music festival fans suffer mysterious needle attacks Fox News
- 145 people pricked with syringes at France street music festival CNN
- Nearly 150 Report Being Jabbed With Needles at French Music Festival The New York Times
- 145 people reportedly 'pricked' in syringe attack at music festival in France ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
Google could be forced to change UK search as watchdog takes steps
CMA proposes tightening regulation, which could lead to site giving users option to choose alternative services
Google could be forced to make a series of changes to its search business, including giving internet users an option to choose an alternative service, after the UK competition watchdog proposed tightening regulation of the company.
The Competition and Market Authority is preparing to give the world’s largest search engine the designation “strategic market status”, a term for tech companies deemed to have considerable market heft that enables the watchdog to use extra powers to regulate them.
Continue reading...Georgian opposition figure Giorgi Vashadze jailed in widening crackdown
The sentence sees most opposition leaders behind bars as the ruling Georgian Dream squeezes critics and rivals.
Europe’s pledge to spend more on military will hurt climate and social programmes
Nato spending plan overlooks risks to security posed by environmental breakdown and social decay, say economists
Europe risks choosing militarism over social and environmental security, economists have warned, as the head of Nato said all 32 members had agreed to increase weapons spending.
Analyses drafted in anticipation of a Nato summit beginning on Tuesday warned of the opportunity cost that higher military spending would pose to the continent’s climate mitigation and social programmes, which are consistently underfunded.
Continue reading...Man who called himself ‘Kardashian of Cheshire’ admits luxury handbag fraud
Jack Watkin, who featured in Rich Kids of Instagram, lured people to invest large sums on designer bags that failed to materialise
A fraudster who described himself as the “Kardashian of Cheshire” persuaded people to invest thousands of pounds in luxury handbags that failed to materialise by flaunting his luxury lifestyle on social media.
Jack Watkin, 26, of Alderley Edge, had gone on trial at Chester crown court on Monday, but on Tuesday – the second day of the trial – he changed his plea to guilty.
Continue reading...Palestine Action supporters protest against UK ban
Demonstrators have staged a protest in London to support Palestine Action after the UK government announced it would ban
Have Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire? What we know
Donald Trump said the two sides reached a ceasefire shortly after Iran attacked a US airbase in Qatar.
Trump in angry outburst aimed at Israel and Iran
The US president expressed his frustration at the conduct of the two nations.
German court lifts ban on far-right magazine
Judges said that while the magazine published anti-constitutional content, it did not justify a ban.
US marine jailed for seven years for sexual assault in Japan
Jamel Clayton was given seven years, with a judge describing the physical attack as "vicious".
Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging
Agriculture secretary to scrap ‘roadless rule’ that protects lands including largest old growth forest in country
The Trump administration will rescind protections that prevent logging on nearly a third of national forest lands, including the largest old growth forest in the country, the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced on Monday.
The announcement will be followed by a formal notice rescinding the “roadless rule”, a nickname for the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, in coming weeks, the Associated Press reports. The rule prohibits road building and logging on all national forest land without roads, accounting for about 59m acres (24m hectares) of US national forest land.
Continue reading...Children killed in ‘appalling’ Sudan hospital attack – WHO head
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appeals for attacks on health facilities to "stop everywhere".
Israel and Iran continue to exchange fire despite Trump’s ceasefire declaration | First Thing
Israel orders army to ‘respond forcefully’ after claiming Tehran has violated ceasefire. Plus, the mystery of the hijacker who disappeared after parachuting out of a plane
Good morning.
Donald Trump has declared a ceasefire intended to bring an end to a 12-day war between Israel and Iran – but despite public acceptance of the truce, both sides continued to exchange fire this morning.
What did Trump say about the ceasefire? Just after 5am GMT, Trump posted to social media that a ceasefire was now in effect, adding: “PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!” Earlier he told NBC the ceasefire was “unlimited” and would last “forever”.
This is a developing story. Follow our updates here.
What did the court say? The court offered no explanation for its decision and ordered the judge’s ruling paused while the appeals process plays out. The three liberal justices issued a scathing dissent.
How did the White House react? A White House spokesperson, Abigail Jackson, said: “The supreme court’s stay of a leftwing district judge’s injunction reaffirms the president’s authority to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country and Make America Safe Again.”
Continue reading...‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding
Shrouded in secrecy, the US law enforcement agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda
Across the US, group chats and community threads have started spiking with warnings. Not just the typical alerts about traffic or out of service subway stations, but where and when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raid was last seen. What places to avoid. What the plainclothes agents might look like.
“Hey all,” a Brooklyn, New York, resident wrote in a closed chat with neighbors last week. “A little birdie just told me ICE is out.”
Continue reading...Israel kills more than 70 people in Gaza, including dozens of aid seekers
Reports suggest as many as 71 have died in rising daily killings as hungry seek food at GHF sites.
Iran-Israel attacks play out around ceasefire announcement by Trump
Iran and Israel continued to attack one another in the hours before a ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump.
UK energy meter switch-off delayed amid fears over heating and higher bills
RTS meters in 300,000 homes to be phased out rather than turned off on 30 June deadline
As the temperature climbed towards 30C the peril of turning off a system that could leave people with their heating stuck on full must have looked like an avoidable disaster.
On Thursday ministers confirmed the “widespread switch-off” of the Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS), which controls an old type of electricity meter, “will not happen” on 30 June.
Continue reading...‘It took a direct hit’ – BBC at scene of Beersheba missile strike
At least four people were killed when an Iranian missile hit a residential building, Israeli officials say.
Villages Evacuated on Greek Island as Wildfires Rage – The New York Times
- Villages Evacuated on Greek Island as Wildfires Rage The New York Times
- Hundreds of firefighters battle wildfires on Greece's Chios island for third day Reuters
- More than 100 firefighters battle large wildfire on eastern Greek island of Chios ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Greece Evacuates Parts of Xios After Fires Hit Aegean Sea Island Bloomberg.com
- Wildfires rage on Greek island of Chios BBC
US strikes on Iran add to global travel disruptions and flight cancellations – AP News
- US strikes on Iran add to global travel disruptions and flight cancellations AP News
- Airlines divert, cancel more Middle East flights after Iran attacks U.S. military base CNBC
- Stuck in Doha, Travelers Look for Escape After Airspace Closes Bloomberg.com
- U.S.-Iran Strike Exchanges Trigger Widespread Flight Disruptions Aviation Week Network
- Chaos for thousands of passengers stranded at Doha airport, long queues in Dubai Reuters