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Nathan Cofnas told by Ghent University to work remotely as US ambassador claims credit for lifting of suspension Prof Jason Arday’s accuser Nathan Cofnas has been barred from teaching on Ghent University campus for three months but has been allowed to continue his research position. Cofnas, an American academic, was suspended from his postdoctoral research position at the Belgian institution earl…

Deal that will reportedly see US take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil has provoked outrage in her country Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has defended her government’s highly controversial energy deal with Donald Trump, insisting the South American country will maintain ownership and sovereignty over its massive oil reserves. Rodríguez, who assumed power in January after…

Meanwhile, Trump posts video of himself kicking over a Lake Ontario sign and replacing it with Lake America sign Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the US government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the country erecting a giant sign saying “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” – and the American president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that …

Corporate regulator finds insurers settling most claims with cash rather than by managing repairs or rebuilding, warning of ‘unfair outcomes’ for homeowners Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Home insurers are overwhelmingly paying cash to settle claims, leaving Australians to foot blowouts in repair costs for their cyclone-damaged homes. The corporate regulator is calli…

Manhunt under way after Italian dies from her injuries in the town of Aarau in the early hours of Sunday A manhunt is under way in Switzerland after a 22-year-old woman was killed ⁠and five people were injured, ⁠some seriously, in a ​shooting at a rave in the northern town of Aarau, local police have said. In the attack in the early hours of Sunday at a techno party at a covered horse racetrack ,…

New company reportedly quickly fell behind with promised repayments to administrator A recruitment executive who was allowed to buy back the assets of his bust company in instalments, despite it accumulating almost £3m of debt, has placed his new business into liquidation after falling behind with promised payments to the administrator. The news is the latest event to raise questions about the pr…

An estimated 237 people have been rescued after accident off the coast of northern Cyprus Fatalities after ferry carrying nearly 270 capsizes off northern Cyprus Here are some of the latest images being sent to us over the newswires following the incident: The prime minister of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Ünal Üstel, has posted an update on X about the “tragic shipwreck…

Rosenheim police detain 27-year-old German man after woman, 31, killed outside train station early on Sunday A man has been detained in Germany on suspicion of the fatal stabbing of a 31-year-old British woman in Rosenheim early on Sunday morning, local authorities said. According to Rosenheim police, the woman, who was attacked at the city’s train station, was taken to a nearby hospital where sh…

Many of the passengers and crew are reported to have been rescued, say local media At least six people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, local media reported. More than 172 people have been rescued, the region’s prime minister, Ünal Üstel, told the state-run TRT news channel on Sunday. Continue reading...

Combined toll of more than 750 dead and 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall…

Democratic Senate nominee is eager to push past series of controversies involving allegations of antisemitism Michigan’s Democratic US senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed apologized to the state’s Jewish Democratic Caucus on Saturday for comments he made after an attack on a synagogue in March, which he tied to Israel’s actions in the Middle East. “My comments may have been misconstrued to justify so…

Widely used chemical TBBPA may present a danger to US public, and especially children, independent research finds The Environmental Protection Agency is manipulating safety data around a highly toxic flame retardant deployed across the US economy, public health advocates allege. The chemical, TBBPA, has been found in dust in US homes and in consumer goods at combined levels that independent resea…

Campaigners welcome plan to bring IPP sentences to a close but say the move is long overdue Campaigners have hailed Andy Burnham’s pledge to bring an end to indefinite jail terms as “a day that thousands of families have spent years fighting for”. The prime minister has said he will “end the injustice” of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences during this parliament, meaning people wi…

Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope begins million-mile journey from Florida launchpad A $4.3bn space telescope that Donald Trump tried to kill has lifted off from Florida as Nasa embarks on the next stage of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe. The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope survived two rounds of proposed White House budget cuts, and be…

State and city lawmakers push to boost regulations after two outbreaks of the disease over the last two summers New York lawmakers are now trying to better protect residents from the deadly legionnaires’ disease by increasing regulations and inspections of cooling towers after two outbreaks of the infection over the last two summers and a raft of new lawsuits. Legionnaires’ disease is a serious p…