Local elections 2024: full council results for England
Results from more than 100 English councils, as well as for several mayors, are announced as early results show the Conservatives losing control of some key councils. Find out what happened in your area
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More than 2,000 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested across US campuses
Police arrest more than 200 students at UCLA as law enforcement clears camp at Dartmouth, arresting more than 90 students
More than 2,000 people have now been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests across dozens of US college campuses in recent weeks.
Police arrested more than 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators on college campuses on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, pushing the total past 2,000, according to an Associated Press tally.
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Five takeaways from day 10 of Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial
Rutgers and University of Minnesota reach resolutions with Gaza protesters
Schools join Northwestern and Brown in arriving at agreements with students to dismantle pro-Palestinian encampments
Students at Rutgers University in New Jersey and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis reached agreements with administrators on Thursday to peacefully dismantle their Gaza solidarity encampment protest.
Rutgers and the University of Minnesota now join Northwestern and Brown in successfully reaching deals to peacefully end their encampment protests.
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Text shows Stormy Daniels lawyer’s shock at Trump win in 2016: ‘What have we done?’
Keith Davidson gives colorful testimony at former president’s hush-money trial about how agreements came together in 2016
As Donald Trump’s presidential victory became clearer and clearer on election night in 2016, an attorney who brokered hush-money payments to bury the then candidate’s alleged sexual liaisons seemed shocked that his efforts had worked, texting his longtime confidant: “What have we done?”
So went the second day of testimony from Keith Davidson – who represented alleged Trump paramours Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal – in the ex-president’s criminal trial. The friend in question was Dylan Howard, then the editor of the National Enquirer. Prosecutors allege that the tabloid veteran kept Trump’s lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, apprised of damaging information about his boss.
This article was amended on 2 May 2024 to correct the amount of money that Davidson said in testimony that Michael Cohen sent to Stormy Daniels.
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Apple sees biggest fall in sales for a year
US acknowledges Syria air strike killed farmer rather than al-Qaeda leader
Kenya orders flood evacuations as it warns dams could spill
Abu Ghraib: Iraqi victims’ case against US contractor ends in mistrial
Gaza will need largest post-war reconstruction effort since 1945, UN says
Celebrity scandals and secret recordings dominate Trump trial
Turkey says it halts trade with Israel over Gaza aid access
David Cameron commits £3bn a year in aid to Ukraine ‘for as long as necessary’
The foreign secretary called the conflict ‘the challenge of our generation’ after making second trip to Kyiv to meet Zelenskiy
The UK has promised £3bn a year “for as long as it is necessary” to help Ukraine, David Cameron said on Thursday as he made his second visit to Kyiv since becoming UK foreign secretary.
He also said he had no objection if weapons supplied by the UK were used to strike inside Russia.
Continue reading...Turkey stops all trade with Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy’ in Gaza
Israeli foreign minister strongly criticises decision by President Erdoğan, accusing him of acting like a ‘dictator’
Turkey has halted all trade with Israel, citing the “worsening humanitarian tragedy” in the Palestinian territories, which prompted strong criticism from the Israeli foreign minister.
“Export and import transactions related to Israel have been stopped, covering all products,” Turkey’s trade ministry said late on Thursday.
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