Markets mixed as investors brace for Trump tariffs
The US president suggests the new import taxes he is set to announce this week will hit all countries.
White House dismisses investigation calls, says ‘case closed’ on Signalgate
Trump administration attempts to turn page as it grapples with Houthi resistance and elusive Ukraine-Russia deal.
‘It’s weird’ – Nasa’s Butch and Suni adapt to life back on Earth
The duo's eight-day mission became a nine-month space odyssey after their Boeing Starliner had technical problems.
Search under way for girl, 11, who fell into Thames in east London
‘Large-scale’ emergency response launched but later scaled down, while girl’s next of kin given support
A search is under way to find an 11-year-old girl after she fell into the River Thames in east London, police have said.
Metropolitan police officers were called to reports that the child had entered the river close to Bargehouse Causeway, near London City airport, at about 1.15pm on Monday. Emergency services launched a “large-scale response” to the incident, the force said, but the search was later scaled down.
Continue reading...Five Israeli men acquitted of rape charge in Cyprus
The woman told police she was sexually assaulted and raped by the five men in September, 2023.
Trump officials to review $9bn in Harvard funds over antisemitism claims
Administration accuses university of failing to protect students and plans to look into federal grants and contracts
The Trump administration announced a review on Monday of $9bn in federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations that it failed to address issues of antisemitism on campus.
The multi-agency joint task force to combat antisemitism said it will review the more than $255.6m in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the federal government, according to a joint statement from the education department, the health department and the General Services Administration. The statement also says the review will include the more than $8.7bn in multi-year grant commitments to Harvard University and its affiliates.
Continue reading...‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack – Deadline
- ‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack Deadline
- Academy apologizes for not adequately supporting Oscar-winning Palestinian director NPR
- Academy apologizes for muted response to Palestinian director’s assault The Washington Post
- Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army AP News
- ‘It was revenge for our movie’: Oscar winner says soldiers helped settlers attack him in West Bank The Guardian
‘We weren’t stuck’: Nasa astronauts tell of space odyssey and reject claims of neglect
Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams’ story markedly at odds with abandonment narrative painted by Trump and Musk
In the end, whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump liked to insist, astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams were never stuck, nor stranded in space, and definitely not abandoned or marooned.
The world heard on Monday, for the first time since their return to Earth two weeks ago, from the two Nasa astronauts whose 10-day flight to the international space station (ISS) last summer turned into a nine-month odyssey. And their story was markedly at odds with the narrative painted from the White House.
Continue reading...Shock Le Pen verdict rocks French far right
The far-right figurehead has been barred from running for public office for five years, throwing her plans into disarray.
Shock Le Pen verdict rocks French far right
The far-right figurehead has been barred from running for public office for five years, throwing her plans into disarray.
Marine Le Pen attacks ban on French presidency run as a ‘political decision’
Far-right leader, who was found guilty of embezzlement of European funds, says conviction is a ‘denial of democracy’
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has railed against a Paris court’s “political decision” to bar her from competing for the presidency in 2027, attacking the move to ban her from running for public office as “a denial of democracy”.
In a day of high political drama, Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement of European parliament funds on a vast scale, a conviction for which she was also handed a four-year prison sentence, with two of those years suspended and two to be served outside jail with an electronic bracelet. She was also ordered to pay a €100,000 (£84,000) fine.
Continue reading...Fire destroys over a dozen Teslas at Rome dealership
Elon Musk says “terrorism” was behind a fire at a Rome Tesla dealership that reduced 17 vehicles to burned out shells.
More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’
More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter warning Americans about the “danger” of the Trump administration’s attacks on science.
The letter comes amid the administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions which has included threats to private universities, federal grant cancelations and ideological funding reviews, mass government layoffs, resignations and censorship.
Continue reading...US slaps sanctions on top Chinese, Hong Kong officials for rights abuses
Secretary of State Rubio says Beijing ‘broke promises’ to Hong Kong residents, depriving them of their freedoms.
Israel awaits Hamas answer to counterproposal as military pressue mounts – Ynetnews
- Israel awaits Hamas answer to counterproposal as military pressue mounts Ynetnews
- What We Know About Talks for a Renewed Gaza Cease-Fire The New York Times
- Israel-Gaza conflict: Ceasefire plan back on table BBC
- Hamas agrees to Gaza ceasefire proposal, the group's chief says Yahoo
- Israel proposes hostage deal as fighting continues in Gaza Reuters
Three of four US soldiers missing in Lithuania found dead – The Guardian
- Three of four US soldiers missing in Lithuania found dead The Guardian
- Bodies of three out of four US soldiers whose vehicle was submerged in Lithuania are recovered CNN
- West Michigan family hopes soldier missing in Lithuania is found safe WOODTV.com
- 3 American soldiers deceased after US armored vehicle pulled from Lithuanian swamp Fox News
- GoFundMe set up to help families of Fort Stewart soldiers killed in Lithuania WJCL
Trump pardons January 6 loyalist and commutes jail time of Hunter Biden associate
President issues full pardon to veteran Thomas Caldwell and commutes Jason Galanis’s 14-year prison sentence
Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to another person involved with the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and commuted the sentence of a former business associate of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s scandal-plagued son.
Thomas Caldwell, 69, of Berryville, Virginia, has been granted a pardon for his alleged role in the Capitol attack following a series of pardons Trump has given out to those involved with or present during the events on 6 January 2021.
Continue reading...Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser says she has days to live after bus crash
Virginia Giuffre writes on social media she has ‘gone into kidney renal failure … they’ve given me four days to live’
Virginia Giuffre, a victim of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who once alleged she was sexually trafficked to Britain’s Prince Andrew, says she has just days to live after being involved in a vehicle accident.
“This year has been the worst start to a new year … I won’t bore anyone with the details, but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can,” she wrote in a post on social media on Sunday, along with a photograph of herself lying in a hospital bed with a head injury.
Continue reading...Tenants win £260,000 of rent back in legal fight with London ‘rogue landlord’
Residents took firms owned by billionaire to tribunal for operating unlicensed houses in multiple occupation
Tenants of two buildings in east London have been awarded a six-figure sum in rent repayments by a tribunal after challenging a billionaire described by a judge as a “rogue landlord”.
The group of current and former residents of Olympic House and Simpson House in Hackney took companies owned by John Christodoulou to tribunal for operating unlicensed houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), which meant the buildings were not subject to the safety and quality standards required by law.
Continue reading...Scotland Yard protesters demand justice for drag artist found dead in Soho in 2023
Friends and fans of Heklina denounce Met’s investigation of unsolved death in her London flat
Nearly two years after the American drag artist Heklina was found dead in London, her friends and fans gathered outside Scotland Yard’s headquarters to protest against the force’s handling of the case.
Heklina, whose real name was Steven Grygelko, was found at a flat in Soho, central London, on 3 April 2023, by a friend and fellow drag performer, Peaches Christ, real name Joshua Grannell.
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