Hadid sisters donate $1m to Palestinian aid effort
Supermodel sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid donate 1m dollars to Palestinian aid agencies
Minnesota representative Dean Phillips calls on New York governor to pardon Trump
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.
Continue reading...Labour is already dominating the online general election campaign | Matthew McGregor
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.
Continue reading...India’s exit polls show a majority for Modi’s BJP-led alliance in election
A summary of exit polls project the NDA could win between 355 and 380 seats in the 543-member lower house of parliament.
North Korea launches new wave of ‘trash balloons’ towards South Korea
North Korea says balloons are a response to leaflets launched across border by activists in South Korea.
Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels – The Associated Press
- Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels The Associated Press
- An Island Community Displaced by Climate Change The Atlantic
- Panama's first climate change displaced prepare to leave ancestral home FRANCE 24 English
- Rising Seas Force Panama Indigenous Families to Leave Island Homes U.S. News & World Report
- Panama Completes First Climate-Related Relocation Human Rights Watch
Being a politician was ‘very yucky’, ex-MP Rory Stewart tells Hay audience
Former Tory minister admits at festival that he felt a fraud due to need to give the impression he was in three places at once
Former Conservative MP Rory Stewart found being a politician “very yucky” and felt like a fraud, he told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday.
Asked whether he would consider going back into politics, he said that he found being a politician “personally very, very unpleasant” and “didn’t like it”, adding: “I feel like a fraud all the time, in a whole series of ways.”
Continue reading...How federal agents protect candidates in Mexico’s deadly election season
Congressional candidate Bryan LeBaron was nervous about accepting a government security team. Then he saw the benefits.
Record number of NHS mental health patients kept in hospitals longer than necessary
Lack of care and support leaves patients stranded on units when they are clinically ready to be discharged
The number of patients stuck in NHS mental health units in England despite being clinically ready to leave has reached its highest level in at least eight years.
“Delayed discharges” of patients from hospitals in NHS mental health trusts reached 49,677 days in March, according to an analysis – a higher figure than in any month since at least January 2016, when NHS Digital started publishing the data.
Continue reading...Voting ends in the last round of India’s election, a referendum on PM Modi’s decade in power – NBC News
- Voting ends in the last round of India’s election, a referendum on PM Modi’s decade in power NBC News
- India’s Exit Polls Show Modi Is Likely to Win a Third Term as Prime Minister The New York Times
- Photos: India votes in last phase of world’s largest electoral exercise Al Jazeera English
- Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 7 Highlights: 7-phase Lok Sabha elections conclude; all eyes on exit poll results The Times of India
- Modi projected to retain power as voting ends in the last round of India’s election PBS NewsHour
Israel’s opposition leader urges Netanyahu to accept ceasefire proposal
Israeli PM says his country’s conditions for ending conflict have not changed after US president presented ceasefire plan
Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that Hamas must be completely destroyed before Israel will agree to end its war in Gaza, casting doubt on Joe Biden’s announcement of a new Israeli-led ceasefire proposal.
The Israeli prime minister made a rare statement on Saturday, during the Jewish Shabbat, in which he said: “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: the destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel.
Continue reading...Verdicts ‘Effectively Wipe Out’ Opposition in Hong Kong – Newser
- Verdicts 'Effectively Wipe Out' Opposition in Hong Kong Newser
- ‘We refuse to disappear’: the Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown The Guardian
- Hong Kong democracy leaders convicted in most significant verdicts since Beijing’s national security crackdown CNN
- Foreign governments and activists criticize Hong Kong security law verdicts. China defends them The Associated Press
- US imposes visa restrictions on Chinese, Hong Kong officials, State Dept says Reuters
More than 2,000 officers police protests and Champions League final in London
Forces outside the capital drawn on for Borussia Dortmund v Real Madrid match and a Tommy Robinson march and counter-protest
More than 2,000 officers have been deployed across London, including more than 400 from outside the capital, to police the Champions League final, a protest by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson and a counter-demonstration.
The final between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid takes place at Wembley on Saturday evening. And, earlier, a protest organised by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, more commonly known as Tommy Robinson, set off from the Victoria area on Saturday, ending in Parliament Square where speeches took place.
Continue reading...British kayaker who went missing found dead in Swiss lake
Family and friends pay tribute to British record-holder Bren Orton, 29, who disappeared in the Melezza River
A British man who went missing while kayaking in Switzerland has been found dead, Swiss police have confirmed.
Bren Orton, 29, went missing on 16 May. Authorities searched for the professional kayaker for two weeks before a body was discovered in Lake Maggiore, which straddles Switzerland and Italy. His body was discovered by a sailor who contacted emergency services.
Continue reading...Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge
Exclusive: Co-author of analysis for WHO calls on government to control the food industry rather than being subservient to it
The sugar tax has been so successful in improving people’s diets that it should be extended to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, health experts say.
The World Health Organization wants the next UK government to expand coverage of the levy to help tackle tooth decay, obesity, diabetes and other illnesses.
Continue reading...Seoul warns public of more balloons being sent from North Korea
A city-wide message asks people not to touch the balloons and leave them for military to handle
Seoul warned the public on Saturday to avoid more balloons sent from North Korea and to report them to the military or police.
South Korea’s military said North Korea was sending more balloons carrying “filth” across the heavily fortified border.
Continue reading...European vote could tip the balance on Meloni’s far-right agenda in Italy – The Associated Press
- European vote could tip the balance on Meloni's far-right agenda in Italy The Associated Press
- Giorgia Meloni has emerged as a kingmaker for the EU – but will she turn to centre right or far right? | Jon Henley The Guardian
- Migration splinters Italy ahead of European elections Euronews
- EU parliament should look to Rome for inspiration, Meloni tells rally Reuters
- Giorgia Meloni's hard-right bid to shake up the EU Financial Times
South Africa to embark on new political path after ANC loses majority
After 30 years in power, the African National Congress, which took 40.2% of the vote, must engage in tricky coalition talks with rivals
The African National Congress’s (ANC) three decades of political dominance in South Africa has come to an end after it was announced that it had won just 40.2% of the vote in last week’s general election.
The ANC’s dramatic decline – the first time it has failed to win a majority of the votes since Nelson Mandela led it to victory in the first democratic election in 1994 – will lead to a chaotic round of coalition negotiations, with all of its potential partners posing difficulties.
Continue reading...‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’
Author of novel Prophet Song about an imagined fascist Ireland tells Hay audience he is not a political writer
“I miss my solitude,” last year’s Booker prize winner Paul Lynch told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday.
“In many ways I didn’t sign up for this. I’m an introvert who’s learned how to be social, a social introvert,” he said. “I signed up to sit in a room on my own for three or four years and write a book,” he said.
Continue reading...Starmer has given in to the Labour left over Diane Abbott, says Sunak – as it happened
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SNP leader John Swinney has urged people to take part in a “Scottish national service” by using the general election to vote Tory MPs out of office, PA Media reports.
Scotland’s first minister said his party could “remove the remaining rump of Tory MPs”.
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