New Jersey mayor to continue fight against Ice detention center after arrest
Newark’s Ras Baraka says court fight against Geo Group will go on despite being jailed and charged with trespassing
Speaking out after his arrest on Tuesday, the Newark mayor Ras Baraka said his city would continue its fight in court against the company that runs an immigration detention facility in New Jersey.
“I know there are some protests that other people are planning, and if I feel obligated to be there, I will,” Baraka told the Rev Al Sharpton on MSNBC Saturday afternoon. “This doesn’t stop the city’s contention with the Geo Group, and we’re going to continue in court with them.”
Continue reading...UK to time limit visas for roles below graduate level under new migration plan
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration as government reacts to growing pressure from Reform UK
Visas for skilled overseas workers will be time-limited for those not taking a graduate-level job, the Home Office has announced.
The measure comes as part of a preview of wider plans being unveiled this week that are designed to reduce net migration to the UK.
Continue reading...Danny Dyer says Harold Pinter’s death sent him into ‘spiral of madness’
Actor tells BBC about his relationship with the playwright, his ‘mentor’, and how he went ‘off the rails’
The actor Danny Dyer said the death of his mentor, the Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, triggered a “spiral of madness” in his life.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Dyer reflected on how he had stayed at Pinter’s home while performing in his play Celebration. The play opened at London’s Almeida theatre in 2000, before transferring to the Lincoln Center in New York.
Continue reading...Five fishermen lost at sea for 55 days rescued by Ecuadorian tuna boat
Three Peruvians and two Colombians missing since setting sail from Peru in March arrive in Galápagos Islands
Five fishers who spent 55 days adrift at sea arrived on Saturday at a port in the Galápagos after being rescued by a tuna boat, the Ecuadorian navy said on X.
The three Peruvians and two Colombians had been missing since mid-March and were found on 7 May by an Ecuadorian boat called Aldo.
Continue reading...Weight-loss jabs may be good for mental health, research shows
Swiss study finds wellbeing and life quality can be improved more than with insulin and other antidiabetic drugs
Weight loss jabs may be good for people’s mental health as well as helping curb their appetite, according to research.
A study by scientists from the University of Bern in Switzerland has found that appetite-suppressing injections also improve mood, wellbeing and quality of life more than insulin and other antidiabetic drugs.
Continue reading...Bangladeshi interim cabinet bans all ousted Awami League party activities
Ban of former PM Sheikh Hasina’s party under Anti-Terrorism Act will remain until trial over student deaths completes
The interim government in Bangladesh has banned all activities of the former ruling Awami League party headed by former influential prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted last year in a mass uprising.
Asif Nazrul, the country’s law affairs adviser, said on Saturday the interim cabinet headed by the Nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus decided to ban the party’s activities online and elsewhere under the country’s Anti-Terrorism Act. The ban would stay in place until a special tribunal completes a trial of the party and its leaders over the deaths of hundreds of students and other protesters during an anti-government uprising in July and August last year.
Continue reading...India-Pakistan ceasefire appears to hold after accusations of violations
Delhi and Islamabad earlier accused each other of breaches, after four days of cross-border attacks.
Israel capitalises as Gaza fatigue sets in
Israel eyes full Gaza occupation. Plus, justice plays out as primetime radio drama in Ghana.
Will the truce between India and Pakistan resolve differences over Kashmir?
A ceasefire is agreed after four days of their most fierce military conflict in this century.
Pope Leo XIV condemns Russia’s ‘imperialist’ invasion of Ukraine – The Kyiv Independent
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Koalas face death, attacks and starvation as blue gums chopped down in Victoria
The state government is aware of koala welfare problems but says it has ‘no cost-effective’ solutions
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Thousands of koalas are being displaced each year as blue gum plantations are cut down in Victoria, worsening overcrowding in nearby forests and exacerbating the risk of injury and death during bushfires.
An estimated 42,500 koalas live in blue gum plantations in south-west Victoria, data shows. Between 8,000 and 10,000 hectares of plantation are harvested each year, making thousands of koalas homeless.
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Continue reading...NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue
Forestry Corporation says suggestion that it can be compared to a criminal bikie gang is ‘ridiculous’
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A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an extraordinary attack on the New South Wales government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions.
Prof David Heilpern, a NSW magistrate between 1998 and 2020 and now the dean of law at Southern Cross University, said the state’s Forestry Corporation should be “disbanded” as it was was no longer fit for purpose.
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Continue reading...Kyiv ceasefire talks mark a ‘significant moment’, says Starmer – BBC
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‘We share a history and the future’: diaspora communities in UK decry Kashmir conflict
At a demonstration in Westminster, people from both sides of India-Pakistan divide call for more than mere ceasefire
People around the world held their breath this week as India and Pakistan appeared to edge closer and closer towards war.
For diaspora communities with family in the region, especially in Kashmir and along the border between the two countries, recent days in particular have been filled with fear and anxiety.
Continue reading...Daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrested at Columbia University protests
Ramona Sarsgaard, 18, given ticket for criminal trespassing after Wednesday’s actions against Israel’s war in Gaza
The daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard was among those arrested at the latest Columbia University protests, marking the latest development in the anti-war demonstrations that also led to the temporary suspension of student journalists.
On Friday, the New York Post reported that 18-year-old Ramona Sarsgaard, a Columbia freshman, was arrested during Wednesday’s campus protests where students demonstrated against Israel’s deadly war in Gaza.
Continue reading...Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv demand an end to war on Gaza
Thousands gather demanding an end to the war and the release of Israeli captives in Gaza.
Google agrees to pay Texas $1.375bn over data-privacy claims
State attorney general said company secretly tracked users’ movements, searches, voiceprints and facial geometry
Google has agreed to pay $1.375bn in a settlement in principle reached with the state of Texas over allegations the company violated users’ data privacy, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, said on Friday.
The agreement settles two lawsuits that covered three products for allegedly violating Texas consumer protection laws.
Continue reading...As Pakistan Violates Ceasefire Within Hours, China’s Remarks Raise Eyebrows – NDTV
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