California asks US government for billions in fire relief funds
Governor Gavin Newsom said the requested funds will help in immediate and long-term recovery work.
Elon Musk Boosts Germany’s Far-Right AfD Party Again Ahead Of Sunday’s Election – Forbes
- Elon Musk Boosts Germany’s Far-Right AfD Party Again Ahead Of Sunday’s Election Forbes
- What is the AfD, the far-right German party supported by Vance and Musk? The Washington Post
- Economy, immigration, Elon Musk at center of German election; conservative candidate favored to win Fox News
- In German Elections, Musk and Vance Play With Fire By Promoting Extremists U.S. News & World Report
- Fact check: How Elon Musk is meddling in German elections DW (English)
Netanyahu playing ‘dirty games’ to sabotage Gaza truce deal: Hamas
The Palestinian group says the Israeli government is not engaging in negotiations for phase 2 of the truce deal.
Body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas has been returned, family says – ABC News
- Body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas has been returned, family says ABC News
- Israel Confirms Body Returned by Hamas Is That of Shiri Bibas The New York Times
- Their Time Is Up Tablet Magazine
- Israel identifies remains of child hostages but says another body from Hamas is not their mother PBS NewsHour
- 'We will continue to hug Yarden and remember you forever,' Ofri Bibas writes The Jerusalem Post
ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Pakistan and India prepare blockbuster showdown
Pakistan hope seam attack tip the balance against India in a must-win Champions Trophy clash in Dubai.
French prisoner ‘The Fly’ arrested nine months after deadly van ambush
Two prison officers were killed and three others injured when a vehicle carrying Mohamed Amra was ambushed in May 2024.
French prisoner ‘The Fly’ arrested nine months after deadly van ambush
Two prison officers were killed and three others injured when a vehicle carrying Mohamed Amra was ambushed in May 2024.
Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years
Epicenter of latest outbreak had one of state’s highest immunization exemption rates for 2023-24 school year
The measles outbreak in Texas has grown to at least 90 cases, reaching historic levels, according to officials.
Since late January, 90 cases of measles have been identified in the South Plains region, the state’s department of state health services (DSHS) reported Friday. At least 16 patients have been hospitalized as a result.
Continue reading...Macron says deadly knife attack in eastern France an ‘Islamist terror act’ – FRANCE 24 English
- Macron says deadly knife attack in eastern France an 'Islamist terror act' FRANCE 24 English
- France stabbing: One dead and police officers injured in Mulhouse BBC.com
- Man killed intervening in knife attack on French police officers The Guardian
- 'Islamist terror' knife attack in east France kills one, injures five, media says The Jerusalem Post
- One dead, several wounded after stabbing in eastern France Al Jazeera English
‘Revenge porn’ abusers allowed to keep devices with explicit images
Prosecutors in England and Wales are failing to obtain orders requiring the deletion of intimate content shared without consent, analysis reveals
Perpetrators of “revenge porn” offences are being allowed to keep explicit images of their victims on their devices, after a failure by prosecutors to obtain orders requiring their deletion.
An Observer analysis of court records in intimate image abuse cases has found that orders for the offenders to give up their devices and delete photos and videos are rarely being made. Of 98 cases concluded in the magistrates courts in England and Wales in the past six months, just three resulted in a deprivation order.
Continue reading...Space mission aims to map water on surface of the moon
A probe to be launched this week aims to pinpoint sites of lunar water, which could help plan to colonise the Earth’s satellite
Space engineers are set to launch an unusual mission this week when they send a probe built by UK and US researchers to the moon to map water on its surface. Lunar Trailblazer’s two year mission is scheduled to begin on Thursday when the probe is blasted into space from Florida on a Space X Falcon rocket.
Its goal – to seek out water on the lunar surface – may seem odd given that the moon has traditionally been viewed as an arid, desiccated world. However, scientists have recently uncovered strong hints that it possesses significant quantities of water. It will be the task of Lunar Trailblazer to reveal just how much water there is near the lunar surface and pinpoint its main locations.
Continue reading...UK creative industries set behaviour standards after Strictly and MasterChef rows
An independent standards authority says the industry must learn from recent scandals and create safer working environments
New guidelines will be issued this week for the UK’s creative industries after a series of scandals including reports of inappropriate behaviour by Gregg Wallace and Gino d’Acampo, and bullying allegations on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA) will set new standards with the aim of stamping out bullying, harassment and discrimination, and address “power imbalances”.
Continue reading...What will happen when Sir Keir Starmer visits US President Donald Trump? – BBC.com
- What will happen when Sir Keir Starmer visits US President Donald Trump? BBC.com
- What can Keir Starmer say at the White House that Donald Trump might listen to? | Andrew Rawnsley The Guardian
- Macron and Starmer Have Played Trump’s Game Before, but the Rules Are Changing The New York Times
- Macron, Starmer to meet Trump as Europeans flesh out ideas for Ukraine guarantees Reuters
- Don't expect a Love Actually-style moment from the Starmer-Trump meeting Sky News
Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in major Pentagon shake-up
The US president fires CQ Brown without providing a reason and also announced replacement of five top officers.
Three people arrested on suspicion of murder decades after UK man vanished
Two men and a woman arrested in connection with 2002 disappearance of Robert Scott Clive in North Shields
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder more than 20 years after a man went missing in north-east England.
Robert Scott Clive, 30, originally from Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, was living in North Shields when he disappeared on 10 October 2002.
Continue reading...Alice Weidel: The far-right leader shaping Germany’s AfD
As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.
Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct
Database, first proposed by Trump in 2020 and created by Biden administration in 2023, is now offline
Donald Trump’s second presidential administration shut down a national database that tracked misconduct by federal police, a resource that policing reform advocates hailed as essential to prevent officers with misconduct records from being able to move undetected between agencies.
The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which stored police records documenting misconduct, is now unavailable, the Washington Post first reported.
Continue reading...Mali’s army says investigating soldiers accused of killing 24 civilians
The Tuareg independence movement blamed soldiers and Russian mercenaries for the killing of civilians.
‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 child patients
Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him
When two gendarmes knocked on her door in 2019, Marie had no idea that she was about to find herself at the dark heart of one of the world’s biggest child abuse cases.
The French mother of three, now 38, was shocked when the officers told her she had been the victim of Joël Le Scouarnec, a surgeon and an alleged serial paedophile accused of raping and sexually abusing hundreds of children.
Continue reading...Hamas hands over six hostages but Israel delays release of 600 Palestinians
Ceasefire in jeopardy as Israel says it will wait ‘until release of next hostages is guaranteed’
Hamas released six Israeli hostages on Saturday, but Israel delayed the handover of more than 600 Palestinians it was due to free from its prisons in exchange, putting the five-week-old ceasefire agreement once more in jeopardy.
The government said the release would be delayed “until the release of the next hostages is guaranteed, and without the degrading ceremonies” at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza.
The statement by Benjamin Netanyahu’s office came as vehicles apparently carrying prisoners left the open gates of Ofer prison, only to turn around and go back in.
The release of 620 Palestinian prisoners had been delayed for several hours and was meant to occur just after six Israeli hostages were released on Saturday.