Ukraine’s Secret Weapons Spending Faces Questions After Internal Review
The government reviews show the country’s challenge as U.S. support wanes and Kyiv pivots to production from a domestic arms industry with a long history of corruption.
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With Trump’s Gaza Plan on the Line, Negotiators Gather in Egypt for Talks
Though significant issues remain to be hashed out between Israel and Hamas, some are saying that after two years of death and destruction, a breakthrough may be near.
Supreme court rejects appeal from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell – US politics live
Justices declines to take up case that would have renewed attention on case after Trump administration faced criticism for refusing to release Epstein filesThe supreme court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming minors, who were sexually abused by her former boyfriend and companion Jeffrey Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison in 2019.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year-sentence for her crimes. She was recently moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas. Continue reading...
Restored Hogarth murals at London hospital open to public for first time
St Bartholomew’s hopes 18th-century satirist’s two large-scale paintings will become a must-see for art fans They had remained almost unseen for 300 years, but now two of William Hogarth’s masterpiece murals are available to the public for the first time.The North Wing at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London, which contains The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan – two large-scale murals by the British painter – has opened after a £9.5m restoration project. Continue reading...
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month
He criticised the "partisan appetites" of political factions, who he said had refused to compromise.
Tory plan to scrap green energy measures called ‘contradictory nonsense’ by environment groups – UK politics live
Shadow energy secretary’s plans dismissed as ‘dead wrong’ by environment groupsMel Stride, the shadow chancellor, was doing an interview round for the Conservatives this morning, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, the faith and communities minister, was on the air on behalf of the government. They were both asked about the latest development in the flag phenomenon – the former footballer turned property developer Gary Neville saying that he took down a union flag flying at one of his building sites because he felt it was being used in a “negative fashion”.Asked if Neville (a Labour supporter) had a point, Fahnbulleh told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:I think he’s really right, that there are people who are trying to divide us at the moment …I spent a lot of time going around our communities, talking to people. People are ground down. We’ve had a decade-and-a-half in which living standards haven’t budged and people have seen their communities held down. And you will get people trying to stoke division, trying to blame others, trying to stoke tension.I think people that put up flags, the vast majority of people that do, do so for perfectly reasonable patriotic reasons. And I think reclaiming our flag as a flag of unity and decency and tolerance, which is the way most people see our flag, is a very positive thing.So I’m afraid I really cannot agree with the comments that he’s made. Continue reading...
Investigation underway into cause of fire at home of South Carolina judge who received death threats
State’s chief justice says fire that sent three people to the hospital appeared to have been caused by an ‘explosion’The cause of a massive fire at the beachfront home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly been subjected to death threats is being investigated by state law enforcement investigators.The blaze at the home of South Carolina Diane Goodstein – a Democrat-appointed circuit court judge – erupted Saturday, sending three members of her family to the hospital, including her husband, a former state senator. Continue reading...
Sudan militia leader convicted of war crimes during Darfur war
Ali Kushayb led the Janjaweed, a group whose campaign of terror led to hundreds and thousands of deaths.
US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal in Epstein case
The British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex -trafficking charges related to former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.
Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention
Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep International activists, journalists and lawyers deported from Israel after attempting to breach the 16-year maritime blockade of Gaza as part of a humanitarian flotilla have alleged being subjected to brutal physical and verbal abuse by Israeli forces during their detention.The alleged abuses included sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, being subjected to insults and being made to watch footage of the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023. Continue reading...