21 h. ago Republicans back Israeli attack on Iran but some Democrats say it sabotages nuclear talks

Trump and GOP cheered the strikes, but others say Israeli PM deliberately harmed nuclear program negotiationsUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump and Republicans in Washington on Friday cheered Israel for carrying out long-threatened strikes on Iran, but several Democrats accused that country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of deliberately sabotaging talks to resolve the question of Tehran’s nuclear program peacefully.Iran has few friends within the American political establishment, while Israel retains widespread support in Congress, even as some Democrats publicly condemn its conduct in the war in Gaza. Republicans lined up behind the president in praising the attack, which seems certain to put an end to weeks of thus-far fruitless negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago How crime boss Jamie Daniel's death led to fresh violence in long

Crime Reporter Norman Silvester's series on the history of Scotland's notorious gangland war today examines the death of crime boss Jamie Daniel and how it led to a fresh wave of violence.

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3 d. ago Greta Thunberg denounces Gaza ‘war crimes’ after being deported from Israel

‘We did nothing wrong’ says campaigner after being flown to Paris where she accused Israel of war crimes against starving Palestinians

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4 d. ago Riot police deployed as UK town set alight after petrol bombs thrown at police

A crowd of around 2,500 people took to the streets in Ballymena, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, to protest the alleged sexual assault of a female by two boys on Saturday, June 7

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5 d. ago Israel orders military to stop Greta Thunberg’s boat as six killed by gunfire near aid centre

Climate campaigner Thunberg joined the Madleen’s crew to ‘challenge escalating war crimes’

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7 d. ago Transportation chief seeks to weaken fuel economy standards, calls Biden

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says Biden-era fuel economy standards for gas-guzzling cars and trucks were illegal and moved to reverse the rules

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8 d. ago Netanyahu defends arming Palestinian clans accused of ties with jihadist groups

PM says it ‘saves lives of Israeli soldiers’ despite accusations government is giving weapons to ‘criminals and felons’The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has admitted arming clans in Gaza that he says are opposed to Hamas, following accusations that members of these criminal gangs allegedly looted humanitarian aid and have ties to jihadist groups.Netanyahu’s comments came after Israeli media reports quoted defence sources as saying Netanyahu had authorised giving weapons to a clan reportedly led by a man known as Yasser Abu Shabab, a Rafah resident from a Bedouin family, known locally for his involvement in criminal activity. Israel allegedly provided Abu Shabab’s group, which calls itself the “Anti-Terror Service”, with Kalashnikov assault rifles, including weapons seized from Hamas. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The Reckoning review – shattering stories of invasion in Ukraine

Arcola theatre, LondonThe horrific reality of Russia’s invasion is recounted during the preparation of a Ukrainian salad in Anastasiia Kosidii and Josephine Burton’s playDuring the violent chaos following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a woman whose husband is missing receives a phone call from his number. Brief relief implodes when the speaker is not him but a stranger revealing that this device has been found beside a corpse covered by a tarpaulin.This is one of numerous shattering anecdotes in a play by Dash Arts, based on work by The Reckoning Project, which collects verbatim testimony from conflict victims with the aim of bringing prosecutions for war crimes.At the Arcola theatre, London, until 28 June Continue reading...

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8 d. ago US hits International Criminal Court judges with sanctions over investigation into Israel

The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court over the tribunal’s investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza

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1 week ago Rachel Reeves begs Cabinet to cool war over spending cuts and talks up transport investment

Chancellor Rachel Reeves acknowledged ministers will not get 'everything they want' in the spending review due next Wednesday.

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1 week ago Voices: Bringing back blasphemy laws would only be bad for Muslims

As a protester who set fire to the Quran is found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence, Rakib Ehsan says giving Islam special treatment under British law will only harden anti-Muslim prejudices within society

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1 week ago Outcry after Boston teen arrested by Ice agents on way to volleyball practice

Ice admits officials were seeking father of Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, 18, but agency chief defends detentionTrump administration officials sparked a massive protest on Sunday in a Boston suburb after immigration agents detained a high school student on his way to volleyball practice while they were seeking his father.The high schooler in question, 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, entered the United States on a student visa, according to a lawsuit filed on his behalf after his arrest. While his student visa status has lapsed, he is eligible for and intends to apply for asylum. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Brutal background of Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons that ended in Costa del Sol bloodbath

Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons, murdered in the popular Spanish resort of Fuengirola, were leading members of a crime gang at war with the rival Daniel clan for decades

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2 w. ago Australia whistleblower who exposed war crime allegations loses bid to reduce prison sentence

Australian army whistleblower David McBride, who leaked allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan to the media, has lost a court bid to have his prison sentence reduced

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2 w. ago Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says his country is committing war crimes

Prime minister over 2006-09 and former Likud member says Palestinian victims are at ‘monstrous proportions’The former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, has said that Israel is “committing war crimes” in Gaza, saying “thousands of innocent Palestinians are being killed, as well as many Israeli soldiers”.Olmert, who served as the 12th prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, wrote in an opinion piece for the Israeli newspaper and website Haaretz that “the government of Israel is currently waging a war without purpose, without goals or clear planning and with no chances of success”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump administration reportedly set to cancel last Harvard contracts – US politics live

Federal contracts worth an estimated $100m set to be pulled, according to media reports Donald Trump wants to “dictate” policies like those of far-right regimes in the 1930s, a leading billionaire investor has warned.Ray Dalio writes in a new book that the US president is acting like a chief executive without a board as he seeks to expand executive power even more aggressively than predecessors Andrew Jackson and Franklin D Roosevelt. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Does he know anything?’: Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev on Trump’s plans to legitimise Russian annexation

Exiled Soviet-era dissident tells the Guardian that for the US to turn its back on the territory would be ‘shameful’When Mustafa Dzhemilev read the news about Donald Trump’s plan for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, he could not believe his eyes. Part of the US administration’s peace plan, say recent reports, would involve Washington recognising annexed Crimea as legitimate Russian territory, among other concessions to the Kremlin that Trump hopes might stop Russia’s war on Ukraine.“The whole world knows what happened in Crimea It would be such a damage to the reputation of the US that it will be hard for them to recover. It would be shameful,” said Dzhemilev, a Soviet-era dissident turned Crimean Tatar political leader, in an interview at his office in Kyiv. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago We have a chance to prevent AI decimating Britain’s creative industries – but it’s slipping away | Beeban Kidron

The government has doubled down on a plans that would allow mass cultural theft, but we are fighting it at every stageBeeban Kidron is a film director and crossbench peer in the House of LordsFor months now, legends of music, literature, product design, the visual arts and more have been sounding the alarm about the British government’s plan to undermine copyright law. The fight kicked off when the government launched a consultation into regulating artificial intelligence with its own “preferred” outcome: letting AI companies steal copyrighted work by default unless the owners of that work “opt out”. But opting out is impossible to do without AI transparency. The plan is a charter for theft, since creatives would have no idea who is taking what, when and from whom.When the government stoops to a preferred outcome that undermines the moral right to your work and income, you might reasonably be angered. As Elton John said last weekend: “The government have no right to do this to my so...

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3 w. ago Edinburgh crime: Further four men arrested in relation to violent gang

"If you know anything about these dangerous and abhorrent acts, please do the right thing and speak to us."

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3 w. ago Fears Afghan commandos may have been denied asylum as they could have witnessed 'war crimes by SAS troops'

Court documents showed the officer rejected every bid by the Afghan commandos, known as Triples, despite the troops still facing revenge from the Taliban for fighting with the British.

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