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• Le président Donald J. Trump a signé un décret imposant des sanctions ciblées à plusieurs responsables et entités du régime cubain que l'administration accuse d'avoir soutenu la répression et les violations des droits de l'homme. • La Maison-Blanche affirme que cette mesure envoie un message de solidarité aux dissidents cubains et complète les efforts plus larges visant à faire pression sur les régimes autoritaires en Amérique latine. • Des critiques au Congrès, dont certains démocrates et même quelques républicains, soutiennent que cette initiative pourrait se retourner contre eux en restreignant la marge de manœuvre des États-Unis avant les prochaines négociations sur la migration et la sécurité régionale.

Des étudiants participant au rituel annuel de l'université affirment que des photos d'eux en maillot de bain sont publiées sans leur consentement dans des journaux nationaux. Lorsque le soleil se lèvera à l'aube vendredi, des centaines d'étudiants de St Andrews University braveront les eaux froides de la mer du Nord pour le May Dip annuel, un rituel de premier cycle censé porter chance aux examens. Mais les étudiants ne seront pas seuls sur la plage. Ces dernières années, ce rituel insolite est devenu une cible pour des agences et des photographes indépendants cherchant à tirer profit d'images d'étudiantes en bikini, certains allant jusqu'à camper toute la nuit sur les dunes d'East Sands, près du sentier côtier de Fife. « Cela a gâché ma nuit », a déclaré Anna, l'une des étudiantes dont la photo est apparue dans un dossier publié par le Scotsman. « Maintenant, quand je pense à ce May Dip, je pense à cette image, et c'est tout. » Continue reading...

Federal raids unfold in Twin Cities amid ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and Minnesota officialsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxFederal agents under the command of the Trump administration have descended on Minnesota’s Twin Cities again to primarily target alleged fraud at daycares after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s so-called “Operation Metro Surge” all but wound down earlier in the year.“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” the US justice department told the Guardian in a statement on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Ceasefire frays further as Israel also carries out airstrikes and issues new displacement orders for south Lebanon Hezbollah launched several drones at Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, while Israel issued new displacement orders for south Lebanon and carried out airstrikes, as the fraying ceasefire failed to stop fighting between the two sides.Hezbollah claimed Tuesday’s attack injured several Israeli soldiers, but no confirmation was given from the Israeli military, apart from a statement saying interceptor missiles had been fired at incoming Hezbollah drones. Continue reading...

Fiona Hill tells MPs UK is ‘vulnerable’ because it does not educate people on how to deal with information warfareBritain is becoming a soft target for Russian and other state propaganda because the UK is not prepared to educate people on how to deal with information warfare, according to a former White House adviser and security expert.Fiona Hill told a parliamentary committee that she feared the UK had become “extraordinarily vulnerable” to online manipulation feeding into the electoral system because there was a lack of discussion about civil defence. Continue reading...

Trump and first lady were safely evacuated and police arrested Cole Tomas Allen of southern California at eventThe gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration, the acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Sunday morning.Blanche also said officials believe that the suspect traveled by train from California to Chicago and then on to Washington, where he checked in as a guest at the hotel where one of the capital’s glitziest annual events was being held, the Washington Hilton. Continue reading...