Students walk out of University of Chicago graduation over Israel policies

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Pro-Palestinian students staged the walkout as school withheld degrees of four seniors pending disciplinary review over protests

Dozens of students protesting Israel’s ongoing military strikes in Gaza walked out of the University of Chicago’s commencement on Saturday as the school withheld the diplomas of four seniors over their involvement with a pro-Palestinian encampment.

The disruption to the rainy two-hour outdoor ceremony was brief, with shouts, boos and calls to “stop genocide”. A crowd of students walked out in between speeches and a demonstration followed the official ceremony. Some chanted as they held Palestinian flags while others donned traditional keffiyehs, black-and-white checkered scarves that represent Palestinian solidarity, over their robes.

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Four more boys arrested on suspicion of rape in Nottinghamshire

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Twelve-year-old among eight now bailed after attack on teenage girl reported in Newark on 25 May

Four more boys including a 12-year-old have been arrested on suspicion of the rape of a teenage girl in Newark.

Nottinghamshire police received a report that a teenage girl had been attacked on Yorke Drive playing fields, Nottinghamshire, between 5.30pm and 7pm on 25 May.

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Julia Gillard says progress on gender equality is ‘really glacial’

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Former Australian prime minister issues warning that young men’s thinking on the issue is going backward

Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has said global progress on gender equality is “really glacial and slow” as she warned that it is going backwards among young people.

Gillard cited recent polling by King’s College London’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, which showed that 51% of respondents believe that men are doing too much to support gender equality, while 46% think that men are now discriminated against.

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Woman who killed pensioner in queue row in Welwyn Garden City sentenced

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Myra Coutinho-Lopez, 82, who had dementia became confused at bank counter, leading to altercation with Courtney Richman, 26

A 26-year-old woman who killed an elderly pensioner with dementia during a row over a long queue at a bank has been given a suspended sentence.

Courtney Richman had been waiting behind 82-year-old Myra Coutinho-Lopez when the argument began on 6 December 2021 at a branch in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, a court heard.

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Sunak suffers poll blow as levelling-up cash-for-votes row erupts

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New poll gives Labour its biggest lead since Liz Truss meltdown as ‘Tory towns’ gain most from new funds

The Tory general election campaign hit more trouble on Saturday as Rishi Sunak faced accusations of using levelling up funds to win votes and Labour opened its biggest poll lead since the disastrous premiership of Liz Truss.

As Sunak tried to fire up his ­party’s campaign before the first crucial TV debate with Keir Starmer on Tuesday, it emerged that more than half of the 30 towns each promised £20m of regeneration funding on Saturday were in constituencies won by Tory MPs at the last election.

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Chad Daybell sentenced to death for murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s children

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Idaho case marked by Daybell and girlfriend Lori Vallow Daybell’s extremist religious beliefs about doomsday

Chad Daybell was sentenced to death Saturday for the murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children in Idaho in a case marked by his and his girlfriend’s extremist religious beliefs about doomsday.

The sentence was handed down after an Idaho jury unanimously agreed that imposing the death penalty would be a just resolution to the triple-murder case. The sentence marks the end of a grim investigation that began with a search for two missing children in 2019. The next year, their bodies were found buried in Daybell’s eastern Idaho yard.

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El Salvador’s ‘all-powerful’ gang-busting President Bukele sworn in for second term – FRANCE 24 English

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  1. El Salvador's 'all-powerful' gang-busting President Bukele sworn in for second term  FRANCE 24 English
  2. US dampens criticism of El Salvador's president as migration overtakes democracy concerns  The Associated Press
  3. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele cements power as he begins second term  Al Jazeera English
  4. Chicago Protesters Denounce 2nd Inauguration of El Salvador's President, Claiming Government 'Altered the Electoral Process'  WTTW News
  5. El Salvador Says it Seized Bombs on Eve of Bukele's Inauguration  Bloomberg
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Biden’s botched Gaza ceasefire deal only demonstrates his lack of influence | Julian Borger

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The US president’s announcement on Friday suggested a ceasefire might be close, but Benjamin Netanyahu’s rebuke was swift and decisive

The latest peace plan for Gaza was given a launch worthy of a historic turning point, with the US president delivering remarks directly to camera from the White House state dining room, declaring it finally “time for this war to end”.

Yet even as Joe Biden spelled out the proposal – leading in theory to a permanent end to hostilities, large-scale food deliveries and the start of reconstruction, there was clearly something awry.

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Zelensky makes surprise stop at Singapore defense gathering as Ukraine pushes for its peace plan amid Russian advance – CNN

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  1. Zelensky makes surprise stop at Singapore defense gathering as Ukraine pushes for its peace plan amid Russian advance  CNN
  2. Ukraine's Zelenskiy dominates Asia security conference as China, Taiwan trade barbs  Reuters UK
  3. Zelenskyy attends security meeting, seeks support for Ukraine peace summit  Voice of America - VOA News
  4. Volodymyr Zelenskyy Met with the President-Elect of Indonesia in Singapore — Official website of the President of Ukraine  Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України
  5. Shangri-La Dialogue Latest: Three-Day Conference in Singapore Updates  Bloomberg
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Modi’s alliance to win easily in India election, exit polls project

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Prime minister claims victory but opposition dismisses poll results as fixed and unscientific

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, TV exit polls said, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.

Most exit polls projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win a two-thirds majority in the 543-member lower house of parliament, where 272 is needed for a simple majority. A two-thirds majority will allow the government to usher in far-reaching amendments to the constitution.

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Minnesota representative Dean Phillips calls on New York governor to pardon Trump

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Failed contender for the Democratic presidential nomination says Kathy Hochul should grant pardon ‘for the good of the country’

The outgoing Democratic US congressman who failed in his presidential primary challenge against Joe Biden called on the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, to pardon Donald Trump over his criminal conviction for hush-money payments to influence the 2016 election “for the good of the country”.

Minnesota representative Dean Phillips, who was the first Democrat to call on fellow party member Henry Cuellar to resign following bribery charges against the Texas congressman, urged for the pardon on Friday in a post on X.

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Labour is already dominating the online general election campaign | Matthew McGregor

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Starmer’s party was quicker out of the digital gate, with slicker, more engaging content than the Tory offering

The video opens with an old clip of Cilla Black singing her classic ‘Surprise, Surprise!’. The caption reads “POV: Rishi Sunak turns up at your 18th birthday to send you to war.”

This appeared on Labour’s TikTok account the day after the Conservatives launched their national service policy. It fitted perfectly with TikTok’s meme-heavy, wry and sarcastic culture and has been watched 4.5 million times. The video racked up almost 700,000 likes, more than double the likes on all the Tories’ TikToks put together.

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Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels – The Associated Press

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  1. Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels  The Associated Press
  2. An Island Community Displaced by Climate Change  The Atlantic
  3. Panama's first climate change displaced prepare to leave ancestral home  FRANCE 24 English
  4. Rising Seas Force Panama Indigenous Families to Leave Island Homes  U.S. News & World Report
  5. Panama Completes First Climate-Related Relocation  Human Rights Watch
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