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Starbucks To Lay Off 300 Employees In US To Cut Costs
No international employees are affected for now, but Starbucks said it is also reviewing its corporate structure outside the US.
A 12-Year-Old Learned How To Disable A Drone. Then One Came For His Family
The use of small commercial drones to target civilians is not new to this war.
Elon Musk Caught Making Faces At State Dinner While On China Visit With Trump
Musk, who leads Tesla and SpaceX, is part of a delegation that travelled with US President Donald Trump to China.
Israeli Military Now Controls 60% Of Gaza Strip, Says Netanyahu
Netanyahu's comments were the first official indication that the military was expanding its footprint in Palestine.
Russian Missile Attack On Kyiv Apartment Building Kills 24
The cruise missile hit the nine-story corner block during what the Ukrainian air force said was Russia's biggest barrage of the country since 2023.
Far-right activists barred from UK before Tommy Robinson rally
Keir Starmer accuses Robinson of ‘peddling hatred and division’ and archbishop of Canterbury urges people to ‘choose hope’ Eleven foreign far-right activists have been blocked from the UK before a rally by Tommy Robinson supporters as Keir Starmer accused him of “peddling hatred and division”.The archbishop of Canterbury urged people to “choose hope”, and faith leaders spoke out before the rally on Saturday, the second of its kind after more than 100,000 attended one last year. Continue reading...
US justice department to seek death penalty for man charged with killing two Israeli embassy staffers
Prosecutors have described fatal shooting outside of DC’s Capital Jewish Museum last year as calculated and plannedThe US justice department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum, prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday.Elias Rodriguez faces federal hate crime and murder charges in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as they left an event at the museum last May. Rodriguez shouted “free Palestine” during the shooting and later told police, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” according to his indictment. Continue reading...
Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
Trump administration move echoes indictment of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro as fuel crisis racks CubaTensions between Cuba and US seem set to rise further amid reports that Raúl Castro, the country’s 94-year-old former president, may soon face the type of indictment that led to the US abduction of the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, in January.Although Raúl is officially retired, he remains the most potent figure in Cuban politics following the death of his brother Fidel in 2016, and by targeting him Washington appears to be heaping pressure on Cuba’s communist leadership at the end of an already extraordinarily intense week. Continue reading...
UK joins European deal to send rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs
All 46 Council of Europe members sign agreement ‘deplored’ by human rights organisationsThe UK and 45 other European countries have signed an agreement that explicitly endorses plans to send unwanted asylum seekers to third country hubs.A political declaration from the 46 members of the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR), said states had an “undeniable sovereign right” to control their borders. Continue reading...
Tennessee Democrat ends re-election bid after map redrawing carves up his district
New map reshapes representative Steve Cohen’s majority-Black Memphis district and gives advantage to RepublicansDemocratic representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee on Friday announced that he is ending his bid for re-election, his career upended by the redistricting battles that are sweeping the country after last month’s supreme court decision.Republicans in Tennessee this month enacted a new US House map that carves up Cohen’s majority-Black district, reshaping it to the GOP’s advantage as part of Donald Trump’s strategy to hold on to a slim majority in the November midterm elections. Continue reading...
From Blair to Burnham, jogging as political metaphor has just run and run
The mayor of Greater Manchester is the latest in a long line of politicians to try to show he’s on the right track … etcPoliticians, as we know, love a metaphor. But do they have to be so literal? No sooner had the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, announced that he wanted to run for parliament than … Look! Out he popped from his house on Friday morning in jogging gear, because he’s full of energy and on the right track and hitting the ground running and … oh, do keep up.What is it that persuades a 56-year-old man who is leading every news bulletin in Britain and knows there is a throng of photographers outside to put on some terrible shorts and a 1979-80 Everton strip and expose his paunch and Lancashire tan to the world? Continue reading...
Met police preparing for large scale far-right and pro-Palestine protests in London
Officers said to be granted extra powers as marches through capital set for same day as FA Cup finalBritish police are preparing to mount one of their largest operations in recent memory as more than 100,000 protesters are expected to march through the streets of London on the same day as the FA Cup final in Wembley.The Guardian understands that officers in vast swathes of central London will be granted extra powers in order to police the far-right Unite the Kingdom march organised by Stephen Yaxley Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson. Continue reading...
