• Koroner menyatakan tidak satu pun dari lima warga sipil yang tewas dalam insiden di Belfast selama masa Troubles seharusnya ditembak
• Tentara angkatan darat Inggris “lepas kendali” dan menggunakan kekuatan yang “tidak wajar” dalam pembunuhan lima warga sipil di Irlandia Utara pada tahun 1972, demikian keputusan hakim penyelidik.
• Empat dari korban – dua remaja, seorang ayah dari enam anak, dan seorang pastor Katolik – tidak menimbulkan risiko saat mereka ditembak di area Springhill dan Westrock di Belfast barat pada 9 Juli 1972, kata Hakim Scoffield pada hari Kamis. Baca selengkapnya...
Pada tahun 2022, Aneil Karia memenangkan Academy Award untuk film pendeknya yang dibintangi oleh Riz Ahmed. Kini, ia menyindir kandidat parlemen bergaya Reform dengan bantuan Jack Lowden dan platform daring yang tidak biasa. Beberapa pembuat film memiliki ekspektasi yang tidak realistis terhadap karya mereka; Aneil Karia bukan salah satunya. “Saya tidak cukup berhalusinasi untuk berpikir bahwa ini akan menjatuhkan pemerintah,” katanya tentang film barunya, Vote Gavin Lyle – tetapi siapa tahu, mungkin saja bisa. Sebuah satir yang lucu, cerdas, diperankan dengan luar biasa, dan dibentuk dengan sempurna meski berukuran kecil, Vote Gavin Lyle membintangi Jack Lowden sebagai calon kandidat parlemen bergaya Reform untuk daerah pemilihan fiktif Inggris tengah, Fletcham dan Wold. Dengan durasi hanya 16 menit, film ini benar-benar menyindir pola pikir sayap kanan jauh; bukan preman jalanan pengibar bendera yang menyerang minoritas, melainkan para Farageist yang lebih cerdik dan cakap berbicara yang mendominasi kepemimpinan gerakan tersebut. Tanpa ingin membocorkan bagian akhir film ini, wajar jika dikatakan ada elemen empati, bahkan simpati bagi karakter utamanya. Karia mengatakan: “Saya pikir tidak menarik atau berguna untuk melihat orang-orang ini – politisi sayap kanan jauh, anggota dewan, calon kandidat, siapa pun – dan hanya mengatakan betapa jahatnya mereka. Saya pikir yang mengejutkan saya tentang mereka adalah mereka sama rentannya dan takutnya dengan kita semua. Lanjut membaca...
Amber Davidson-Orozco mengatakan bahwa keluarganya kehilangan Dodger, kucing mereka, saat pindah dari California. Seekor kucing keluarga yang hilang di tengah kepindahan dari California melintasi AS dikabarkan mulai kembali ke kebiasaan lamanya bersama pemiliknya di rumah baru mereka di Georgia setelah mengalami reuni yang tidak terduga – namun telah lama dinanti – setelah penantian lebih dari tujuh tahun. Sebagaimana disampaikan pemiliknya, Amber Davidson-Orozco, dalam sebuah wawancara pada hari Rabu, kucingnya Dodger masih merespons namanya dan membiarkan putra-putranya membalikkan tubuhnya dengan jenaka di atas bahu mereka meskipun telah terpisah dari mereka selama waktu yang bagi si kucing setara dengan sekitar 24 tahun. Lanjutkan membaca...
• Akademisi Dublin menemukan manuskrip berusia 1.200 tahun dari Caedmon’s Hymn yang disusun oleh seorang penggembala ternak Northumbrian
• Salinan puisi yang hilang, yang disusun pada abad ketujuh oleh seorang penggembala ternak Northumbrian – puisi tertua yang masih bertahan dalam bahasa Inggris – telah ditemukan di Roma.
• Para akademisi dari Trinity College Dublin (TCD) menemukan manuskrip yang berisi Caedmon’s Hymn di Perpustakaan Pusat Nasional Roma.
Mark Young battled dehydration and killed a rattlesnake while his children and others looked for him for daysA Vietnam war veteran says he is a living “miracle” after getting lost in Arizona’s wilderness for four days with precious few supplies – and ultimately being rescued by his own son.“I’ve never felt so loved,” Mark Young said in an interview aired on Phoenix’s KNXV news station about the moment he realized it was his son who had delivered him from his plight. “My gratitude is inexpressible.” Continue reading...
Christina Snow was one of two women injured when gunman opened fire on a family in Shreveport, killing eightSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe mother of three children killed over the weekend in a mass shooting in Louisiana is reportedly recovering in hospital with a bullet still lodged in her face.Jamarckus Snow told NBC News that his cousin, Christina Snow, was one of the two women who were shot and injured early Sunday when a gunman opened fire on his family in Shreveport. Police described the shooting as a “violent domestic incident” in which 31-year-old Shamar Elkins fatally shot eight children – including seven of his children and a cousin. Continue reading...
Exclusive: George Robertson calls on officials to identify the ‘fit and willing’ in UK’s 95,000-strong strategic reserveThe Ministry of Defence has lost track of military veterans they intend to recall at a time of national danger, according to a key government adviser.About 95,000 former soldiers and officers are in the strategic reserve but it is claimed that officials have failed to maintain a full record of their contact details. Continue reading...
US vice-president defends pre-election visit to Hungary with fresh barbs against EU in first comments since Orbán’s lossHungarian election winner Péter Magyar has been invited to meet with the Hungarian president, Tamás Sulyok, on Wednesday to discuss the government-formation process following the stunning win over Viktor Orbán in Sunday’s election.The meeting could be a bit awkward, given Magyar’s repeated calls for Sulyok, an Orbán loyalist, to resign from the office.“He’s one of the few European leaders we’ve seen who’s been willing to stand up to the bureaucracy in Brussels that has been very, very bad for the United States. So for example, when you see a European bureaucrat go after an American company, sometimes the only vote ‘no,’ the only vote to protect that American interest, has been Viktor Orbán.”“I think that his legacy in Hungary is transformational, 16 years, fundamentally changing that country.” Continue reading...
Woman tells court ‘I lost my teenage self’ from abuse by teacher William ‘Rob’ Gilfillan, already in prison for offences against daughter Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA woman who was repeatedly sexually assaulted in the 1980s by her high school PE teacher has told a court how the man’s actions resulted in her life being changed “negatively for decades”.In December, William “Rob” Gilfillan was found guilty of indecent assault of a person under 16 and sexual penetration of a child under 16. The five counts against two victims took place at Traralgon high school in Gippsland. Continue reading...
Mariam Sabbah, 10, to get specialist care in Britain instead of US, after Trump halted visitor visas for PalestiniansA Palestinian child who lost her arm during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza arrived in the UK for specialist treatment on Tuesday, amid ongoing pressure on the British government to step up efforts to help evacuate critically ill and injured children from the territory.Mariam Sabbah arrived at Heathrow airport with her mother, Fatma Salman, and two brothers. They were met by a small crowd bearing gifts, balloons and bouquets. Continue reading...
Episodes from William Hartnell era are from mostly lost 12-part adventure called The Daleks’ Master PlanTwo episodes of Doctor Who from the William Hartnell era, which have not been seen since 1965, have been released after being discovered in a private film collection.The two episodes, released on Friday and starring Peter Purves as the Doctor’s companion, are parts one and three of a mostly lost 12-part adventure called The Daleks’ Master Plan, written by the Dalek creator Terry Nation and broadcast as part of the third series of Doctor Who in November 1965. Continue reading...
Study into how fertilisation could work in space finds sperm may get disorientated when trying to find an eggSperm in space are likely to get disoriented and lost while struggling to find their way to an egg, a new study has found.When exposed to microgravity in experiments, sperm tumble around like an untethered astronaut, according to Adelaide University researchers. Continue reading...
The phrase should evoke optimism, positive expectations about the future, trust and belonging. That seems almost out of reach in a chaotic worldOne term has already become the well-intentioned weasel word of 2026: “social cohesion”. A phrase that can be dropped into speeches, inquiries and legislation, its meaning shape-shifts depending on the audience. Is it about “glue” or the rule of law? About community resilience or countering fear? Does it mean finding places of real exchange, or shutting up and getting on?Although it has been in the political lexicon for years, the terror attack that targeted Jewish people celebrating Hanukah in Bondi last December brought social cohesion to the fore as an urgent problem to solve. Continue reading...
Badr Albusaidi claims Israel convinced Donald Trump to make the ‘grave miscalculation’ of waging war on IranMiddle East crisis – live updatesOman’s foreign minister has claimed the US has “lost control of its own foreign policy” and accused Israel of persuading Donald Trump’s administration to go to war with Iran – a conflict he described as a “catastrophe” and “grave miscalculation”.Writing in the Economist, Badr Albusaidi, the Omani minister who mediated the latest nuclear talks between Iran and the US, offered an unusually damning assessment of events leading up to the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran and the war that it has triggered across the Middle East. Continue reading...
• The Trump administration is using Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act to investigate foreign factory capacity and forced labor, aiming to offset $1.6 trillion in tariff revenue lost due to a Supreme Court ruling on February 20.
• Public hearings are scheduled for May 5 on factory capacity and April 28 on forced labor, with the goal to complete probes before the current 10% import tariffs expire in 150 days.
• Trump imposed a temporary 10% tariff on all imports post-ruling, plans to raise it to 15%, but faces challenges from two dozen states; remaining tariffs on China, Canada, steel, lumber, and cars expected to yield $668 billion over a decade.
