‘Stop rioting,’ says grandmother of boy killed in traffic stop
Neighbours react to attack on mayor’s house
Walking through the southern Parisian suburb of L’Hay-les-Roses, it’s hard to imagine that an attack took place here just early this morning.
The house of mayor Vincent Jeanbrun is situated on a quiet, tree-lined street. If not for the police car, cordon and crowd of journalists gathered outside, it would seem like any other normal Sunday.
I meet Sonia, who lives close to Jeanbrun’s house. I ask her how she and her neighbours are feeling about the attack.
Summary
- The grandmother of the boy killed during a traffic stop in France has told news channel BFM TV she wants the riots to stop
- Nahel’s grandmother says her daughter “no longer has a life” after Nahel’s death
- Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne has been to L’Hay-les-Roses, where the mayor’s house was attacked, and said “no violence will go unpunished”
- The Association of Mayors of France has called for a rally of citizens and mayors tomorrow in support of Vincent Jeanbrun
- Overnight on Saturday 719 people were arrested across the country, which is over a thousand less than on Friday night
‘I’ve never seen desperation like it’: UK soldiers relive the terror of leaving Kabul
Military personnel speak frankly of the chaotic, terrifying evacuation, in moving new documentary series from Channel 4
Just occasionally a documentary series makes you stop and rethink what you know of the world. Evacuation, three unforgettable films about the chaotic airlift of British citizens and troops from Afghanistan as the Taliban re-entered Kabul in August 2021, is one such series.
The films, which will be shown on consecutive nights on Channel 4 starting on Sunday evening, do not tell the story we think we know – the fatal strategic miscalculations of government ministers asleep at the wheel. They instead present an eyewitness account of that horrific fortnight at Kabul airport.
The eyewitnesses are serving British soldiers, airmen and women, and a handful of the 15,722 people eventually airlifted out. Those left behind have a silent presence in the films. The paratroopers and pilots and squaddies speak with unprecedented frankness about being asked to perform an impossible role in profoundly hostile circumstances.
Guatemala election: Court orders probe after surprise result
Multiple political parties filed a joint complaint after center-left candidate Bernardo Arevalo managed to secure second place in the first round of Guatemala's presidential vote.
Guatemala could see a vote recount before the second round of its presidential election in August, where former first lady Sandra Torres is expected to face center-left Bernardo Arevalo.
The first round of the vote last weekend presented a highly fractured political landscape in the Central American state, with centrist Torres securing only 15.8% of the ballots to place first.
Even against this background of political division, however, the performance of her rival Arevalo from the center-left Semilla party was higher than expected — Arevalo received 11.8% of the vote after garnering substantial support in larger cities. This was enough for him to come in second and secure a place in the runoff vote.
Prigozhin's InsurgencyThe War Putin Wanted Now Threatens His Rule
A Commentary by Mathieu von Rohr
If you believe the state propaganda, then nothing actually happened in Russia over the weekend. The brief uprising by Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin, who sent his troops marching toward Moscow, a move Russian President Vladimir Putin was still comparing on Saturday to the Russian Civil War of 1917, was just some kind of silly, adolescent prank.
The message: Keep going about whatever you are doing. There's nothing to see here.
Yet the weekend saw the most precarious 36 hours for Putin since he took power in 2000. A man who has almost compulsively sought to demonstrate his strength over his two decades in power - through his shirtless equestrian photos, the endlessly long meeting tables in the Kremlin and the routine poisoning of political opponents - has now been weakened.
Action needed against ‘religious hatred’ after Quran defiled: IOC
Defilement of the Muslim holy book in Sweden has prompted international condemnation, including large protests and countries in the Middle East summoning ambassadors.
The 57-country-strong Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said international law and other collective measures are needed to prevent future incidents involving the desecration of the Quran.
The grouping, whose populations are majority Muslim, issued the statement on Sunday during an extraordinary meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after the holy book was burned and defiled in Sweden.
“We must send constant reminders to the international community regarding the urgent application of international law, which clearly prohibits any advocacy of religious hatred,” OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha said.
Last week, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi who fled to Sweden several years ago, tore up and lit pages of the Islamic holy book on fire.
Canada has officially banned testing cosmetics on animals
Canada has moved to ban the testing of cosmetics on animals, joining a number of other countries and American states to outlaw the practice.
The Canadian government announced the decision in a Tuesday news release. Bill C-47 amends the Food and Drugs Act to ban both the testing of cosmetic products on animals and the sale of products relying on animal testing data, according to the news release.
The news release noted animal testing for cosmetics was “rarely conducted in Canada.”
Canada will join the ranks of the European Union, Australia, the United Kingdom, and South Korea, which have all moved to ban cosmetic testing on animals, according to the release.
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