- What to Know About the Deportees the Trump Administration Wants to Send to South Sudan The New York Times
- Trump admin deportations to South Sudan violated court order, judge rules Axios
- A look at the deportees on plane that headed for South Sudan from US AP News
- Trump administration holding migrants in Djibouti after judge blocks deporting them to South Sudan, president says CBS News
- Court halts Trump administration’s effort to send eight men to South Sudan The Guardian
Scuffles break out as Israelis march through occupied East Jerusalem
Right-wing Israelis attacked Palestinians, chanted anti-Muslim slogans and stormed Al-Aqsa compound.
Why is Israel now facing pressure from some of its Western allies?
Spain hosts key European and Arab nations to pressure Israel to halt Gaza assault.
Man arrested after car ploughs into crowd at Liverpool FC’s title parade
Police say a male suspect is taken into custody after a car collides with several pedestrians in Liverpool.
Thousands of Israelis join violent, racist march through Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter
State-backed flag day march shut down Palestinian life in Old City to celebrate Israel’s 1967 annexation of East Jerusalem
Thousands of Israelis have joined a state-funded march through the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem, where large groups chanted racist slogans including “Gaza is ours”, “death to the Arabs” and “may their villages burn”.
The annual march, paid for and promoted by the Jerusalem city government, celebrates Israel’s capture and occupation of East Jerusalem and its holy sites in the war of 1967. The Israeli takeover is not recognised internationally.
Continue reading...Four former Volkswagen managers convicted of fraud in ‘dieselgate’ trial
Braunschweig court gives two former executives prison sentences for roles in emissions test-cheating scandal
A German court has convicted four former Volkswagen managers of fraud and given two of them prison sentences for their part in the “dieselgate” emissions test-cheating scandal that erupted almost a decade ago.
The former head of development Heinz-Jakob Neusser received a suspended jail term of one year and three months from the court in the city of Braunschweig, according to the news agency Bloomberg.
Continue reading...Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
Israeli opposition leaders condemned attacks on Palestinians as "racist" and a disgrace to Judaism.
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
Israeli opposition leaders condemned attacks on Palestinians as "racist" and a disgrace to Judaism.
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem – BBC
- Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem BBC
- Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant 'death to Arabs' during annual procession through Jerusalem AP News
- Thousands of Israelis join violent, racist march through Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter The Guardian
- Far-right Israelis confront Palestinians, other Israelis in chaotic Jerusalem march, witnesses say Reuters
- Far-right Israelis storm Al-Aqsa, UNRWA compounds amid Jerusalem Day march Al Jazeera
Germany and Ukraine’s other allies scrap range limits on arms sent to Kyiv
Removal of restrictions, which is backed by UK, France and US, improves Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russia
The German chancellor has said that Germany, along with Ukraine’s other main western supporters, will remove range restrictions on weapons delivered to Kyiv for the first time, to enable it to defend itself against Russia.
Friedrich Merz said Germany, Britain, France and the US had lifted the restrictions to enable Ukraine to be better able to hit military targets on Russian territory.
Continue reading...MPs fear UK equality watchdog may take months to sign off gender guidance
Exclusive: EHRC insiders believe process could drag on until after its chair is replaced in November
Formal guidance on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on gender may not be fully signed off for months, officials and MPs have warned, amid increasing worries about the capability of the government’s equalities watchdog.
While the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has promised to complete the process by the end of July, a series of insiders have told the Guardian they believe this may not happen until after the watchdog’s controversial chair, Kishwer Falkner, is replaced in November.
Continue reading...Volvo to cut 3,000 jobs amid trade uncertainty
The layoffs come days after US President Donald Trump threatened 50 percent tariffs on EU goods.
Germany’s Merz backs Ukraine’s long-range missile strikes on Russia – Financial Times
- Germany’s Merz backs Ukraine’s long-range missile strikes on Russia Financial Times
- Germany's Merz says Western allies no longer impose range limits on Ukrainian weapons Le Monde.fr
- Germany's Merz says there are no more range restrictions on the weapons supplied to Ukraine AP News
- Germany's Merz Gives Ukraine the Green Light to Strike Deep Inside Russia Bloomberg.com
- Germany and Ukraine’s other allies scrap range limits on arms sent to Kyiv The Guardian
Mining sector in Africa suffers from “colonial model”
Claude Kabemba talks about the root causes of Africa’s mining tragedies after the rescue of 260 miners in South Africa.
King Charles III arrives in Canada amid tension with Trump
British monarch is expected to voice support for Canada's sovereignty against the US president's 51st state comments.
EU hopes for quick deal to resolve US trade war after Trump delays 50% tariffs
European leaders call for ‘lowest possible’ border taxes after levies postponed from 1 June to 9 July
EU leaders have expressed hopes for a quick deal to resolve the trade war with the US after Donald Trump announced he was delaying his threatened 50% tariffs for the bloc until 9 July.
The US president said on Sunday he would pause the border tax due to be imposed on 1 June, which he had announced two days earlier, after what he called a “very nice call” with Ursula von der Leyen.
Continue reading...France’s first lady appears to push her husband on a plane. Macron says they were joking – PBS
- France’s first lady appears to push her husband on a plane. Macron says they were joking PBS
- ‘It’s Nonsense’: Macron Plays Down Video of Shove From Wife The New York Times
- Emmanuel Macron's wife seen shoving him in the face in viral clip as France's first couple arrives in Vietnam Fox News
- Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron’s scandal-plagued relationship: From student-teacher affair to the shocking physical altercation New York Post
- ‘Hand of the Kremlin?’: Russian foreign ministry mocks Macron video South China Morning Post
Young girl escapes burning Gaza school after Israeli attack
Ward Jalal Al-Shaikh Khalil escaped the flames at the school, unaware her mother and two siblings had died in the strike.
Young girl escapes burning Gaza school after Israeli attack
Ward Jalal Al-Shaikh Khalil escaped the flames at the school, unaware her mother and two siblings had died in the strike.
World’s oldest fingerprint may be a clue that Neanderthals created art
A man 43,000 years ago dipped a finger in red pigment and made a nose on a face-like pebble in Spain, scientists say
One day around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man in what is now central Spain came across a large granite pebble whose pleasing contours and indentations snagged his eye.
Something in the shape of that quartz-rich stone – perhaps its odd resemblance to an elongated face – may have compelled him to pick it up, study it and, eventually, to dip one of his fingers in red pigment and press it against the pebble’s edge, exactly where the nose on that face would have been.
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