Will using Western weapons on Russia help Ukraine change the war?
The latest Russian advance in the Kharkiv region has convinced Kyiv’s allies to change their policy.
Physically healthy Dutch woman dies by assisted suicide at age 29 – Fox News
Mexico gears up for first woman as president as 34 candidates killed during election cycle – MSNBC
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- Mexico marks deadliest election campaign in its modern history as country moves to elect 1st female president. Here's what to know. Yahoo! Voices
- The Most Dangerous Job in Mexican Politics: Running for Mayor The Wall Street Journal
- Mayoral candidate in Mexico assassinated at campaign stop CNN
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Dutton is demanding Australia resist ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders – and a Howard-era law could help him
Legal experts say a ‘carve-out’ clause in the law relating to extraditions could let the attorney general decline to enforce arrest warrants issued under international law
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In 2002, a little-known backbencher by the name of Peter Dutton rose in parliament to ask the then prime minister, John Howard, about a new mechanism for prosecuting war crimes.
The newly elected member for Dickson’s dixer to Howard was straightforward: “What is the basis of the government’s decision to ratify the statute of the International Criminal Court?”
Continue reading...Toby Jones praises ‘extraordinary dignity’ of Post Office accused
Actor, who played campaigner Alan Bates in TV drama, calls Horizon scandal a ‘Hitchcockian nightmare’ at Hay festival
The post office operators prosecuted in the Post Office Horizon scandal have “extraordinary dignity” after living 20 years in a “Hitchcockian nightmare”, according to actor Toby Jones.
Jones played Alan Bates, a former post office operator and leading campaigner for justice for staff wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls caused by faulty software, in the ITV drama that put the scandal back in the spotlight.
Continue reading...UK ambassador to Mexico sacked after pointing gun at colleague, FT reports – CNN
- UK ambassador to Mexico sacked after pointing gun at colleague, FT reports CNN
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- UK ambassador to Mexico sacked after pointing gun at staff Financial Times
- UK ambassador to Mexico out after video allegedly shows him pointing a rifle near a colleague The Washington Post
Students walk out of University of Chicago graduation over Israel policies
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.
Continue reading...Four more boys arrested on suspicion of rape in Nottinghamshire
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.
Continue reading...Julia Gillard says progress on gender equality is ‘really glacial’
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.
Continue reading...Woman who killed pensioner in queue row in Welwyn Garden City sentenced
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.
Continue reading...Sunak suffers poll blow as levelling-up cash-for-votes row erupts
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.
Continue reading...Chad Daybell sentenced to death for murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s children
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.
Continue reading...Tens of thousands take to the streets in show of support for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán – Euronews
Boeing delays Starliner space capsule launch for at least 24 hours
The space capsule will carry a two-person team to the International Space Station (ISS).
El Salvador’s ‘all-powerful’ gang-busting President Bukele sworn in for second term – FRANCE 24 English
- El Salvador's 'all-powerful' gang-busting President Bukele sworn in for second term FRANCE 24 English
- US dampens criticism of El Salvador's president as migration overtakes democracy concerns The Associated Press
- El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele cements power as he begins second term Al Jazeera English
- Chicago Protesters Denounce 2nd Inauguration of El Salvador's President, Claiming Government 'Altered the Electoral Process' WTTW News
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Biden’s botched Gaza ceasefire deal only demonstrates his lack of influence | Julian Borger
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.
Continue reading...India’s Modi could win third term, polls predict
Exit polls say Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is on course to win India's general election.
Zelensky makes surprise stop at Singapore defense gathering as Ukraine pushes for its peace plan amid Russian advance – CNN
- Zelensky makes surprise stop at Singapore defense gathering as Ukraine pushes for its peace plan amid Russian advance CNN
- Ukraine's Zelenskiy dominates Asia security conference as China, Taiwan trade barbs Reuters UK
- Zelenskyy attends security meeting, seeks support for Ukraine peace summit Voice of America - VOA News
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy Met with the President-Elect of Indonesia in Singapore — Official website of the President of Ukraine Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України
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Modi’s alliance to win easily in India election, exit polls project
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.
Continue reading...Trump would run for president from jail, his lawyer says
Alina Habba says Donald Trump will run for office even if he is jailed and "nothing will change" following his conviction for falsifying business records.