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Youth-led protests end with street violence in cities across France, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and Albania French officials have opened an investigation into the attempted murder of a police officer and Germany’s interior minister has called for harsh penalties after peaceful and mainly youth-led protests across Europe ended in violence. In Portugal, police – some with dogs – cleared protest…

Mann taken to hospital with superficial injury after weapon accidentally discharged while holstered Hollywood director Michael Mann has been taken to the hospital following an apparently accidental shooting at a Los Angeles gun range, according to the Associated Press. Mann, 83, reportedly shot himself in the leg while at the The Range LA. The news was first reported on celebrity website TMZ. He …

Prime minister says shake-up is vital to restore tribunal crippled by years of political disputes Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has vowed to see through a contested overhaul of the country’s constitutional court, declaring that “in certain matters, there can be no compromise”. In a prime-time television address on Saturday night , Tusk was defiant, despite overnight protests that saw riot…

Police searching for ‘unknown group’ that gained entry to property in Chandler’s Ford on Saturday night Five teenage boys have been seriously hurt after being stabbed at a Halloween party in Hampshire, leading police to launch a search for an “unknown group”. The boys, all aged 16 and 17, were found injured after police were called to a property in Chandler’s Ford near Eastleigh just after 10.30p…

Separately, one person was killed and eight wounded in a Birmingham, Alabama, shooting after a football game Police in Dallas say four people are dead and 15 are injured following separate shootings in a Dallas neighborhood. The police chief, Daniel Comeaux, said police are still trying to determine if the shootings in the Deep Ellum neighborhood were related. Separately, one person was killed an…

Senator was allegedly targeted in ballot-stacking ploy by his Democratic opponent to peel away votes from him Senator Dan Sullivan, the Alaska Republican allegedly targeted in a ballot-stacking ploy by his Democratic opponent, Mary Peltola, told CNN this morning that he would accept the results of his upcoming election. According to a recent New York Times investigation, aides from Peltola’s camp…

Dr Marta Shahbazi was travelling to a conference to receive an award for scientific excellence in developmental biology An “inspiring” University of Cambridge scientist died in the Spanish train collision on Wednesday which killed at least 69 people. Dr Marta Shahbazi , an affiliate associate professor at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and a group leader at the city’s Medical Research Council …

Adrian Ramsay says some new members would be ‘more at home’ in Your Party or Socialist Workers party The former Green party leader Adrian Ramsay has said the party must fix its internal democracy to avoid a takeover by the hard left, saying that some new members “might be more at home” in Your Party or the Socialist Workers party. Ramsay, who has been critical of the handling of the row over a “Z…

Eight injured in shooting outside Legion Field Annual game draws huge crowds to Birmingham One person was killed and eight others were wounded in a mass shooting outside Legion Field after the annual Magic City Classic football game on Saturday night, police in Birmingham, Alabama, said. Michael Pickett, chief of the Birmingham Police Department, said most spectators and families had left the sta…

Centre of downturn shifts away from Sydney and Melbourne, but after such strong growth most homeowners still sit on sizeable gains Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian home values have dropped for a seventh consecutive month, with prices in the capital cities now falling at the fastest pace in 40 years as rising mortgage rates scare off buyers. Cotality data sho…

Exclusive: Mark Jones, once on track for one of the Liberal party’s most powerful roles, is now instrumental in One Nation’s expansion Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast In 2023, a young and ambitious Liberal moderate was on the brink of securing one of the most powerful roles in the party: state director of the New South Wales branch. Three years later, he is playing …

Exclusive : Move to scrap legal requirement to set aside water for environment is ‘extreme even for the NT CLP government’, green group says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Northern Territory government has been accused of making a “blatant and shameless” attack on nature by planning to delete a legal requirement that water must be allocated to the environment. In…

Chair of National Gallery’s First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists’ agency and the authenticity of their work Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast AI is taking First Nations art and turning it into “Temu slop”, the Pitjantjatjara artist Sally Scales has said. Scales, the chair of the National Gallery of Australia’s First Nations advisory gr…

In state that become ‘ground zero’ for discrimination against south Asians, experts say they are seeing voters motivated to fight back Last winter, while Pooja Sethi was canvassing to become the Democratic candidate for the Texas house of representatives, she received a text from a staff member alerting her to a post on X. The Turning Point USA influencer Savanah Hernandez – a Trump supporter kno…

UPCCs in Holyhead, Tremadog and Bangor may shut as Betsi Cadwaladr University health board struggles with funding and recruitment A struggling Welsh health board may close urgent primary care centres at three hospitals, citing funding and recruitment issues, prompting widespread criticism. Betsi Cadwaladr University health board, which serves about a quarter of Wales’s population, said it was con…