Al Jazeera journalist arrives in Paris after Israel deportation
Al Jazeera journalist Omar Faiad arrived in Paris after being deported by Israel for being aboard the ‘Madleen’.
Top CFPB enforcement official to resign amid policy shifts under Trump
Acting Enforcement Director Cara Petersen has served with the US agency since it was founded.
FIFA Club World Cup 2025: What is the MLS players’ pay dispute about?
Club players in the US are at odds with their league over the compensation money from the Club World Cup 2025.
Watch: At the scene of Austria’s worst shooting in modern history
The BBC's Bethany Bell visited the scene in Graz, after ten people were killed in a school shooting.
Can Europe’s music festivals break from pro-Israel funders?
More than 50 artists and fans are boycotting a top European festival due to its ties with a pro-Israel hedge fund.
LA public schools will protect students and families at graduations from Ice
‘Perimeters of safety around graduation sites’ aim to prevent any immigration enforcement action
Public schools in Los Angeles have announced a new security plan to keep immigration officers away from any potentially undocumented students and their families who are attending this week’s school graduations.
“Every single graduation site is a protected site,” said Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the country’s second largest school district, at a Monday press conference, having previously said he was “dismayed by recent immigration enforcement activity occurring near our schools”.
Continue reading...Macron says France will ban social media for under-15s if EU does not – Euronews.com
- Macron says France will ban social media for under-15s if EU does not Euronews.com
- French Student Is Arrested After Teaching Assistant Is Stabbed to Death The New York Times
- Teaching assistant killed in stabbing outside France school BBC
- Macron says he’ll ban social media for under-15s in France politico.eu
- France to test adding security gates at schools after aide stabbed to death, PM says Reuters
Austria’s deadliest mass shooting: Who are the Graz victims, shooter? – Al Jazeera
- Austria’s deadliest mass shooting: Who are the Graz victims, shooter? Al Jazeera
- Former pupil kills 10 people and himself in shooting at Austrian school Reuters
- Austria school shooting latest: Death toll rises to 11 as police reveal gunman to be a former pupil The Independent
- 11 people killed in school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz NBC News
- Gunman kills 9 in a mass shooting at a school in Austria NPR
Israeli attack kills three paramedics in Gaza City
Three Palestinian paramedics were killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza City on Monday night.
Bolsonaro takes the stand in historic Brazil coup trial – NPR
- Bolsonaro takes the stand in historic Brazil coup trial NPR
- Bolsonaro denies involvement in alleged coup plot BBC
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro testifies before Supreme Court over alleged coup plan Al Jazeera
- 'Redo the election': Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro appears in court on attempted coup charges France 24
- Bolsonaro denies coup plot but admits discussing ‘alternative ways’ to remain president The Guardian
Misinformation about LA Ice protests swirls online: ‘Catnip for rightwing agitators’
Many posts spread the idea that mayhem overtook LA while police confrontations were limited to a small part of the city
Since protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles began, false and misleading claims about the ongoing demonstrations have spread on text-based social networks. Outright lies posted directly to social media mixed with misinformation spread through established channels by the White House as Donald Trump dramatically escalated federal intervention. The stream of undifferentiated real and fake information has painted a picture of the city that forks from reality.
Parts of Los Angeles have seen major protests over the past four days against intensified immigration raids by the US president’s administration. On Saturday, dramatic photos from downtown Los Angeles showed cars set aflame amid confrontations with law enforcement. Many posts promoted the perception that mayhem and violence had overtaken the entirety of Los Angeles, even though confrontations with law enforcement and vandalism remained confined to a small part of the sprawling city. Trump has deployed 2,000 members of the national guard to the city without requesting consent from California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, which provoked the state to sue for an alleged violation of sovereignty. The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has also ordered the US military to deploy approximately 700 marines to the city.
Continue reading...Cheaper imported chicken and beef increasingly seen in UK supermarkets
Grocers turning to Australia, Poland and Uruguay for meat, prompting claim they are undermining British farmers
Cheap chicken and beef from Australia, Poland and Uruguay is on the rise on UK supermarket shelves, according to the National Farmers’ Union, as supermarkets look for money-saving options.
The NFU regularly monitors supermarket shelves and notes that Morrisons is now selling raw chicken from Poland in its poultry aisle. Chicken in Poland is generally produced to different standards from those in the UK, and is cheaper as a result. Morrisons requires that for its UK chicken, poultry must be kept at a maximum stocking density of 30kg/m2, giving the chickens more space to roam. In Poland, this is up to 39kg/m2.
Continue reading...Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes risk losing UK benefits over compensation
Campaign pushes to change law that could lead to survivors living in UK being disqualified from means-tested benefits
Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes are being “retraumatised” by the prospect of losing benefits in the UK if they accept compensation from the Irish state, Westminster has been told.
The warning comes amid a campaign backed by representatives of almost every political party in the UK and figures including Steve Coogan, who starred in Philomena, a film about the mother and baby homes scandal.
Continue reading...Loss of data relating to inquiry at NHS trust most likely deliberate, say police
Nottingham university hospitals is subject of maternity care investigation involving nearly 2,500 cases
A missing data file containing the details of hundreds of maternity cases was most likely deleted “intentionally or maliciously”, a police investigation has concluded.
Nottinghamshire police began an investigation in February into the temporary loss of the computer file at Nottingham university hospitals (NUH) NHS trust.
Continue reading...Russia planning attack on Nato ‘to test article 5’, warns Germany – The Times
- Russia planning attack on Nato ‘to test article 5’, warns Germany The Times
- Russia could send "little green men" to test NATO's resolve, German intelligence boss warns Reuters
- Germany plans rapid bunker expansion amid fears of Russian attack The Guardian
- Russia Setting Up to 'Test' NATO in Baltics: German Intelligence Newsweek
- NATO’s Rutte: ‘We’re all on the eastern flank now’ politico.eu
Greek court strips three far-right MPs of seats over electoral fraud
Tribunal rules Spartans lawmakers ‘deceived’ voters after convicted ex-leader of Golden Dawn found to hold influence over party
A landmark court decision has dealt a blow to the far-right movement in Greece after MPs with the neo-fascist Spartans party were deprived of seats in parliament.
Citing electoral fraud, a specially assembled electoral tribunal stripped three of the group’s lawmakers, including its leader, of their status in a move that, for the first time since the collapse of military rule, leaves Athens’ 300-seat parliament operating with just 297 MPs.
Continue reading...Two men jailed for life for supplying car bomb that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia
Robert Agius and Jamie Vella were convicted last week of their role in the anti-corruption journalist’s murder in 2017
Two men have been sentenced to life in prison for supplying the car bomb that killed the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta eight years ago.
The sentencing on Tuesday of Robert Agius and Jamie Vella, reported to be members of the island’s criminal underworld, marked a significant step in the long campaign to bring those charged with Caruana Galizia’s murder to justice.
Continue reading...10 dead in Austria’s deadliest school attack
An ex-student opened fire at a high school, killing at least nine people in the deadliest shooting in Austrian history.
Breaking down the drone ‘revolution’ driven by Russia’s war on Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine are waging a remotely controlled battle in the air and at sea.
Palestinian Authority President Says Hamas Must Exit Gaza – The New York Times
- Palestinian Authority President Says Hamas Must Exit Gaza The New York Times
- France says Palestinian Authority makes ‘unprecedented commitments’ to reform ahead of conference on statehood CNN
- In first, Palestinian Authority’s Abbas condemns Hamas’s October 7 attack The Times of Israel
- Mahmoud Abbas sends letter to Macron outlining steps to end war in Gaza The Jerusalem Post
- Abbas calls for Hamas disarmament, international forces in letter to Macron France 24