by Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent on (#6XRC3)
Scheme aims to exploit teachable moment', when someone is wavering between criminality and turning their back on violenceA scheme aiming to turn children arrested for violence away from crime has claimed staggering success, with up to nine out of 10 diverted from further offending, according to a report.Under the scheme, which is funded by London's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), special youth workers are placed in police custody centres across the capital. Continue reading...
by Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent on (#6XRC4)
Inquiry focuses on TAVI procedures carried out on elderly and frail people at Castle Hill hospital near HullPolice have launched an investigation into the deaths of heart surgery patients at an East Yorkshire hospital.The investigation is focusing on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures carried out on elderly and frail patients at Castle Hill hospital, near Hull. Continue reading...
Firm also blames challenging UK retail trading environment' , with shares falling 7% in early tradingLower-income consumers missing out on wage rises have been blamed by one of Britain's biggest discount retailers for a slide in its sales and profits.B&M, which issued a profit warning in February, said consumers had been more cautious about their spending over the past year. Continue reading...
Lee Jae-myung must tackle US leader's trade war as he attempts to revive Asia's fourth biggest economyTwo years ago, the then South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, serenaded Joe Biden in the White House with an a rendition of American Pie. The foundations of Washington's ties with Seoul, one of its most important allies in the Asia-Pacific, appeared as firm as Yoon's more-than-passable crooning.As he prepares to replace the now-disgraced Yoon, South Korea's new leader, Lee Jae-myung, will have to strike a very different note with Biden's successor in the White House. Continue reading...
BBC says sharp and deeply troubling escalation' this year of Iran targeting families of UK-based BBC Persian journalistsBBC staff in London say their families are being targeted and punished" by the Iranian regime as it intensifies a campaign of intimidation against journalists and media outlets.There have been more than 20 threat-to-life" incidents against people in the UK by Iran in recent years, according to the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism commander. Continue reading...
by Joanna Partridge, Jasper Jolly and Sammy Gecsoyler on (#6XQR6)
Donald Trump decides to provide different treatment' after trade deal but UK could still face 50% rate if pact faltersThe White House has signalled that the UK will be spared the 50% steel and aluminium tariffs that came into effect on Wednesday, triggering relief among British steelmakers.In a statement, the US president, Donald Trump, said he had decided to provide different treatment" to the UK after a deal that was struck between Washington and London last month - but is yet to be signed. The executive order signed by Trump on Tuesday evening will still raise import taxes for US companies buying from other countries. Continue reading...
The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy's Own Story and The Married Man, has diedEdmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his semi-autobiographical novels such as A Boy's Own Story - and who literally wrote the book on gay sex, with the pioneering The Joy of Gay Sex - has died aged 85.His death was confirmed to the Guardian by his agent Bill Clegg on Wednesday. Continue reading...
by Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter on (#6XQW5)
Triple murder accused, who denies deliberately poisoning anyone, tells court she dumped dehydrator used to dry foraged mushrooms due to feeling scared' of child protection officers seeing it
Price Tag singer plans to have surgery after performing at Summertime Ball this monthJessie J has said she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer and plans to undergo surgery after her performance at this month's Summertime Ball.The Price Tag singer, 37, said in an Instagram video she has spent much of her recent time in and out of tests". Continue reading...
Officials refused entry to man who runs top security firm in Nigeria and his family to spend holiday with his sisterThe Home Office has been accused of a racist crackdown on Nigerians" after refusing a visa to a man who runs one of the west African country's top security firms for a holiday to see his family.Samuel Onyekachi Ibeawuchi runs BKay Security Ltd, which provides close protection for high-profile people in Nigeria and abroad. He and his wife, a successful businesswoman, had applied to come to the UK with their 18-month-old child for three weeks in the summer so they could spend time with his sister, Hope Ibeawuchi-Beales, and her husband, Nick Beales, who is head of campaigning at Ramfel, which supports vulnerable migrants. Continue reading...
Date of 4 June remains one of China's strictest taboos, with government using increasingly sophisticated tools to censor its discussionThe world will never forget the Tiananmen Square massacre, the US secretary of state and Taiwan president have said on the 36th anniversary of the crackdown, which China's government still tries to erase from domestic memory.There is no official death toll but activists believe hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed by China's People's Liberation Army in the streets around Tiananmen Square, Beijing's central plaza, on 4 June 1989. Continue reading...
Ex-movie mogul is charged with assaulting three women from 2006 to 2013, and has attended trial in wheelchairThe third sexual misconduct trial of former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was rapidly heading toward a conclusion on Tuesday, as prosecutors and the defense began delivering closing arguments in Manhattan criminal court.If there is a doubt about their case, you gotta throw it out," defense attorney Arthur Aidala said of three women who testified against Weinstein. These are the people they want you to believe - they're all women with broken dreams." Continue reading...
Johnnie Moore, also an adviser to Trump, named as US- and Israeli-backed initiative tries to recover from resignationsAn evangelical leader and adviser to Donald Trump on interfaith issues has been appointed the new head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) as the controversial US- and Israeli-backed initiative attempts to recover from top-level resignations during a tumultuous rollout last week.Johnnie Moore, a member of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and founder of the boutique advisory firm Kairos Company, was appointed the new head of the GHF after Jake Wood, a former marine, resigned, saying that he could not guarantee the GHF's independence from Israeli interests. Continue reading...
Judge says challenge should have been brought in specialized trade court but ruling allows state to file appealA United States judge dismissed California's challenge to Donald Trump's tariffs, allowing the state to file an appeal over the court's ruling that the dispute should have been filed in a specialized US trade court in New York.The ruling, handed down late on Monday by US district judge Jacqueline Corley in San Francisco, did not delve into the merits of California's lawsuit. Now, three separate US appeals courts may simultaneously consider the legality of Trump's sweeping tariffs on US trading partners and a separate set of tariffs targeting imports from China, Mexico and Canada. Continue reading...
Donald Trump appointed himself chair of the performance center in February, leading to boycotts and cancellationsThe Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has reportedly seen subscription sales fall by about $1.6m - or roughly 36% - compared with 2024 amid Donald Trump's having appointed himself to lead the institution.The center has made less than $2.7m as of the start of June through subscriptions to its theater, dance, classical and other seasons of performances. The center had generated more than $4.4m by this point a year earlier, according to data obtained by the Washington Post. Continue reading...
Disclosure comes as calm weather and fuller boats leading to more Channel arrivals, Home Office saysA new law to fast-track the removal of asylum seekers who arrive from countries deemed to be safe is being drawn up by ministers, prompting concerns that thousands of claimants may not be given a fair hearing.Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, said she would legislate to speed up the processing, appeals and deportation of people who should not be sitting in the asylum system for a long time". Continue reading...
Girl's lawyer tells police misconduct hearing that she felt physically violated' by incident at her London schoolA black schoolgirl suffered mental harm and felt physically violated" when she was strip-searched at school by police, a misconduct hearing for three officers has been told.The girl, who was 15 at the time and has been known as Child Q, was strip-searched in December 2020 at her school in Hackney, east London, while menstruating, having been wrongly accused of possessing cannabis. Continue reading...
Group of international reporters stopped on way to Masafer Yatta, which features in documentary No Other LandMasked Israeli soldiers have blocked an international group of reporters from visiting Palestinian villages on the West Bank that have been under sustained attack by Jewish settlers, and which were the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary film.The Academy Award won by No Other Land has not stopped the attacks on Masafer Yatta, a cluster of villages on the southern edge of the occupied territory, which has been the target of settler violence and house demolitions and forced displacement by the army for many years. Continue reading...
New president faces formidable challenges that could plunge his term into crisis before it has even begunLee Jae-myung will need to draw on his considerable survival instincts as he attempts to steer South Korea out of the political morass of the past six months.The liberal candidate, who on Tuesday became the country's president at the third attempt after defeating his conservative rival, Kim Moon-soo, has promised to govern for all South Koreans - and for good reason. After a swift transfer of power that will take him to the presidential Blue House on Wednesday, Lee will inherit a deeply scarred country. Continue reading...
Man who led campaign to oust Yoon Suk Yeol wins race as conservative opponent raceLiberal candidate Lee Jae-myung has won the vote to become South Korea's new president after a snap election triggered by a brief period of martial law imposed by the now-impeached former leader Yoon Suk Yeol.His closest rival, the conservative Kim Moon-soo, conceded as Lee, of the Democratic party, was comfortably ahead on 48.523% with 70% of the vote counted in the race to lead Asia's fourth-biggest economy. Continue reading...
Joanna Miller said her grandpa would hate the mechanical replica to be debuted in July, calling it an imposter'Walt Disney's granddaughter has condemned the entertainment giant he founded for re-creating the late entrepreneur as a soulless robotic grampa" for the 70th anniversary celebration of California's Disneyland theme park in July.Disney, who died in 1966, will appear as an animatronic figure in a new attraction called Walt Disney - A Magical Life in the park's Main Street Opera House that commemorates the resort's 17 July 1955 opening. Continue reading...
by Tom Ambrose (now); Fran Singh and Yohannes Lowe (e on (#6XQ4X)
Schoof said his coalition government will become a caretaker administration up until the new electionItalian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and France's president Emmanuel Macron will aim to reconcile their difference in talks in Rome on Tuesday, according to AFP.The European rivals are meeting in the Italian capital from 18.00 GMT for talks and then dinner, an encounter Macron said he had initiated. Continue reading...
Trucks carrying food for 2m people in famine-threatened El Fasher targeted in RSF-controlled Al Koma, western SudanA UN aid convoy carrying critical food supplies to a famine-threatened city in western Sudan has been targeted in an attack that killed five people and injured several others.Trucks belonging to the UN's food and children's agencies were struck as they headed towards El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, which has been besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year. Continue reading...
Master-race stories of heroic characters battling against zombie Nazis and western spies to recover imperial grandeur are a bleak new spin on an old propaganda traditionZ literature", a subgenre of Russian fantasy fiction characterised by nationalistic, pro-war storylines, has been on the rise since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began three years ago and may be pushing young readers towards enlisting in combat.Z literature - named after the Z" symbol of support for the invasion - often features popadantsy, or accidental travel" narratives, involving a protagonist being transported to pivotal moments in Russia's past and using modern knowledge to intervene and alter history in Russia's favour. Continue reading...
Facebook and Instagram parent's deal follows other big tech companies signing agreements with power companiesMeta on Tuesday said it had struck an agreement to keep one nuclear reactor of a US utility company in Illinois operating for 20 years.Meta's deal with Constellation Energy is the social networking company's first with a nuclear power plant. Other large tech companies are looking to secure electricity as US power demand rises significantly in part due to the needs of artificial intelligence and datacenters. Google has reached agreements to supply its datacenters with nuclear power via a half-dozen small reactors built by a California utility company. Microsoft's similar contract will restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the site of the most serious nuclear accident and radiation leak in US history. Continue reading...
by Philip Oltermann European culture editor on (#6XQ8V)
Rijksmuseum exhibition includes contraceptive featuring erotic etching of a nun and three clergymenA 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century luxury souvenir" became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum's art collection.The condom, which was probably made of a sheep's appendix circa 1830, is thought to have come from an upmarket brothel in France, most likely in Paris. It features an erotic etching depicting a partially undressed nun pointing at the erect genitals of three clergymen, as well as the phrase Voila, mon choix (There, that's my choice"). Continue reading...
Rose Njeri charged with breaching cybercrime law over tool for people to show opposition to proposed tax changesA Kenyan software developer who was arrested last week after creating a tool for people to express their opposition to a proposed law has been arraigned in court and released on bail, amid public anger at her detention and growing signs of repression in the east African country and its neighbours.Rose Njeri was charged on Tuesday with unauthorised interference with a computer system" in violation of the country's computer misuse and cybercrime law. Continue reading...
Paramilitaries and organised crime gangs make it UK's most dangerous place to be a reporter, rights group saysJournalists in Northern Ireland routinely face attacks and death threats from paramilitary and organised crime groups that act with impunity, according to Amnesty International.Reporters have been physically assaulted and told they will be shot, stabbed, raped or blown up, making Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the UK for journalism, a report said on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Festival adds secret sets to lineup at prime slots on Pyramid and Park stages, as it reveals full timings and artist detailsGlastonbury festival has announced its full lineup of over 3,000 performances between 25 and 29 June, adding a number of new artists to the main stages along with timings and a series of tantalising secret sets.Installed in a plum spot at 6.15pm on the Pyramid stage on Saturday night, after John Fogerty and before Raye and Neil Young, is an act called Patchwork - unlikely to be the alternative country fusion" band from British Columbia or Tennessee's occult emotional hardcore" outfit of the same name. In 2022, Glastonbury announced a similarly unheard-of band called the Churnups playing on the Pyramid stage, who ended up being Foo Fighters. Continue reading...
A Russian rocket attack on the city of Sumy kills two people on Tuesday, after at least five people killed in eastern Ukraine on MondayUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has commented on the deadly Russian airstrike on Sumy earlier today, which he called a savage" assault that deliberately targeted civilians on ordinary streets".The Ukrainian leader said many people have been wounded" and that at least three people have been killed.It is obvious: without global pressure - without decisive actions from the United States, Europe, and everyone in the world who has the power - Putin will not agree even to a ceasefire.Not a single day goes by without Russia striking Ukrainian cities and villages. Every day, we lose our people to Russian terror. Every day, Russia gives new reasons for tougher sanctions and stronger support for our defence.In just one week - from 26 May to 2 June - rescuers of the state emergency service of Ukraine came under enemy fire about a dozen times.Emergency workers from Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions were hit. Six fire and rescue units and 6 more pieces of equipment were damaged. Continue reading...
Adventurous Amber spotted by two men in a boat in Poole Harbour after travelling across Hampshire and DorsetAn adventurous dog who went missing for 36 days and covered about 100 miles has returned from her extended walkies, after being rescued by a charity.Amber, a retriever cross, had been rescued as a street puppy in Qatar by a charity and moved to the UK but went missing after only one night with her new foster family near Bramshaw, in the New Forest. Continue reading...
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