Cologne evacuates 20,000 so WW2 bombs can be defused
The German city cordons off a huge area, calling it the largest evacuation since the end of World War Two.
Facing a Demographic Shift, Vietnam Abolishes Two-Child Policy – The New York Times
James Cleverly takes on Kemi Badenoch over decision to ditch net zero targets
Senior Tory to give speech in which he will criticise ‘neo-luddites’ on right for failing to embrace green technology
James Cleverly has taken direct aim at Kemi Badenoch’s decision to ditch net zero targets by criticising what he called “neo-luddites” on the right who seemed scared of using green technologies to protect the environment.
The senior Tory MP, who lost to Badenoch in last year’s Conservative leadership race, said it was a false choice to believe the UK had to choose between economic growth and protecting the environment. Badenoch has argued current net zero targets will harm the economy.
Continue reading...Gaza aid points close for day as Israel warns against travel to distribution centres – Israel-Gaza war live
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation halts limited supply of food distribution after at least 27 killed by Israeli fire as they waited for food
The civil defence agency in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced Palestinians near the southern city of Khan Younis on Wednesday killed at least 12 people. Earlier reports had put the death toll at 10 (see 7.47am BST).
“At least 12 people were killed, including several children and women, in a strike by an Israeli drone this morning on a tent for displaced persons” near Khan Younis, the agency’s spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told Agence France-Presse (AFP), adding that four more people had been killed in other strikes.
Continue reading...Rachel Reeves to announce £15bn in transport spending amid questions over police cuts – UK politics live
Chancellor will give speech in Greater Manchester, while police leaders have written to the PM over potential cuts in next week’s spending review
Good morning. A week today Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will unveil the outcome of the spending review, which will set spending budgets – day-to-day (“resource”) and capital – covering most of the rest of this parliament. Many departments will get resource budgets that feel like cuts, but the Treasury has a more positive story to tell on capital spending and today Reeves is giving a speech announcing a £15bn spending spree on transport projects, mostly in the north of England.
Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot have all the details in our splash story.
We are deeply concerned that the settlement for policing and the [NCA], without additional investment, risks a retrenchment to what we saw under austerity. This would have far-reaching consequences.
Policing and the NCA have seen a sustained period where income has not kept pace with demand. Often, this has been masked by attempts to defer costs in the hope of more income in future, but that now leaves policing with very limited room for manoeuvre.
Continue reading...Chris Minns warns of $2bn budget hole if bill curtailing psychological injury claims fails
Opposition opposes premier’s bill to raise impairment threshold to 30% as Labor forced to woo crossbenchers for support
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The NSW premier, Chris Minns, has warned a failure to pass his controversial workers compensation legislation would blow a $2bn hole in the state budget as Labor seeks to woo a coalition of conservative crossbenchers to pass the bill.
In parliament, the premier said if the changes to curtail psychological injury claims did not go through, an additional $2bn would be required from NSW taxpayers to fund the public service portion of the scheme.
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Continue reading...Cologne starts its biggest evacuation since 1945 to defuse WWII bombs – AP News
- Cologne starts its biggest evacuation since 1945 to defuse WWII bombs AP News
- German city evacuates 20,000 after unexploded World War II bombs are found The Washington Post
- Cologne evacuates 20,000 so WW2 bombs can be defused BBC
- Discovery of wartime bombs prompts large-scale evacuation in Cologne, Germany Reuters
- Major evacuation in Cologne after second world war bombs discovered The Guardian
Deadly mushroom lunch cook tells court she threw up toxic meal
Erin Patterson is accused of murdering three relatives and trying to kill another with poisonous fungi.
Deadly mushroom lunch cook tells court she threw up toxic meal
Erin Patterson is accused of murdering three relatives and trying to kill another with poisonous fungi.
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died
Edmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his semi-autobiographical novels such as A Boy’s Own Story – and literally wrote the book on gay sex, with the pioneering The Joy of Gay Sex – has died aged 85.
His death was confirmed to the Guardian by his agent, Bill Clegg, on Wednesday.
Continue reading...Woman accused of triple murder says foraged mushrooms may have been added to meal – CNN
‘Is that how you poisoned my parents?’: Erin Patterson tells mushroom trial husband confronted her over dehydrator
Triple murder accused, who denies deliberately poisoning anyone, tells court she dumped dehydrator used to dry foraged mushrooms due to feeling ‘scared’ of child protection officers seeing it
Erin Patterson has told a court her estranged husband asked her if she had used a dehydrator to poison his parents, and admitted resetting her phone out of fear police would discover photos she had of foraged mushrooms.
In her third day in the witness box, Patterson also said she thinks there is a “possibility” that foraged mushrooms were unintentionally added to her beef wellington mixture as she tried to improve its “bland” flavour, and lied to her lunch guests about having cancer because she was embarrassed about planned weight-loss surgery.
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Continue reading...Jessie J says she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer
Price Tag singer plans to have surgery after performing at Summertime Ball this month
Jessie J has said she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer and plans to undergo surgery after her performance at this month’s Summertime Ball.
The Price Tag singer, 37, said in an Instagram video she has spent much of her recent time “in and out of tests”.
Continue reading...Home Office accused of ‘racist crackdown’ on Nigerians after denial of visit visa
Officials refused entry to man who runs top security firm in Nigeria and his family to spend holiday with his sister
The Home Office has been accused of a “racist crackdown on Nigerians” after refusing a visa to a man who runs one of the west African country’s top security firms for a holiday to see his family.
Samuel Onyekachi Ibeawuchi runs BKay Security Ltd, which provides close protection for high-profile people in Nigeria and abroad. He and his wife, a successful businesswoman, had applied to come to the UK with their 18-month-old child for three weeks in the summer so they could spend time with his sister, Hope Ibeawuchi-Beales, and her husband, Nick Beales, who is head of campaigning at Ramfel, which supports vulnerable migrants.
Continue reading...Physician associates to be renamed to stop them being mistaken for doctors
Exclusive: Government-ordered review concludes term in NHS should be changed because of risks to patients’ safety
Physician associates in the NHS will be renamed to stop patients mistaking them for doctors after a review found that their title caused widespread confusion.
Thousands of physician associates who work in hospitals and GP surgeries across the UK take medical histories, examine patients and diagnose illnesses but are not doctors.
Continue reading...Vanuatu looks into revoking Andrew Tate’s golden passport
Tate gained citizenship in the tiny Pacific state under a scheme that has allegedly been abused by criminals.
Vanuatu looks into revoking Andrew Tate’s golden passport
Tate gained citizenship in the tiny Pacific state under a scheme that has allegedly been abused by criminals.
World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre
Date of 4 June remains one of China’s strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussion
The world will never forget the Tiananmen Square massacre, the US secretary of state and Taiwan president have said on the 36th anniversary of the crackdown, which China’s government still tries to erase from domestic memory.
There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the streets around Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s central plaza, on 4 June 1989.
Continue reading...South Korea: New leader Lee Jae-myung pledges to ‘unite’ a divided country – BBC
- South Korea: New leader Lee Jae-myung pledges to 'unite' a divided country BBC
- South Korea’s New President Will Face Deep Divisions and the Trump Administration The New York Times
- South Korea’s new leader faces tightrope act between China ties, US alliance South China Morning Post
- Outspoken liberal leader Lee elected South Korea's president, closing period of political tumult AP News
- Liberal Lee Jae-myung wins South Korean presidency, ending months of political turmoil NBC News
South Korea’s new president Lee Jae-myung pledges to ‘unite’ country
Experts say he faces a challenging task, as division and discontentment continue to rack South Korea.