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Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, condemns designation, calling it ‘discriminatory’.Published On 9 Jun 20269 Jun 2026The United States has designated Chinese corporate giants Alibaba, BYD and Baidu as companies that support China’s military, expanding its blacklist to some of the country’s best-known commercial brands.The Pentagon included the firms in an update on Monday that is likely to complicate the fragile detente under way between Washington and Beijing after years of rocky relations.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listChina’s embassy in Washington, DC, condemned the listing as “discriminatory” and an example of the US government “overstretching” the concept of national…
French singer and actor Patrick Bruel, facing sexual assault allegations from multiple women, was taken into police custody on Monday, as two new rape complaints were filed against him.The 67-year-old, a major figure in French pop culture with multiple top-selling albums and more than 40 film appearances, is being questioned about 13 victims, the prosecutor’s office in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre said in a statement.Three women accused Bruel of sexual assault and attempted rape in 1997, 2000 and 2001, prosecutors said, while sexual assaults, harassment and rapes reported by other victims are also being investigated.Bruel faces two new…
Beijing is Pyongyang’s main political and economic backer.The Chinese president is in North Korea, with many saying he aims to reinforce Beijing’s leverage with Pyongyang.North Korea is largely isolated on the world stage, and under UN sanctions. China remains its main supporter.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIt’s been sidelined due to its nuclear activities.But Pyongyang has made it clear it wants to be recognised as a nuclear state – and insists its programme is a ‘line of no retreat’.Xi Jinping’s visit comes after he held a summit with Donald Trump, who wants a non-nuclear North Korea.He also met…
Karim Khan rejects suspension as ICC governing body refers him to disciplinary proceedings before member states.Published On 9 Jun 20269 Jun 2026The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, has been suspended from his duties, the tribunal’s governing body said, following a probe into sexual misconduct allegations.In a statement on Monday, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties said it will refer Khan to disciplinary proceedings before all 125 ICC member states, which will vote on his fate in a special session.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“This suspension is not an indication of the final outcome,” it…
Gordon S Wood, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, was killed on Sunday when he was struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island.Wood, 92, won the Pulitzer in 1993 in the history category for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, a landmark tome that advanced the theory of the break with Britain being at least as much of an internal social and political transformation as a desire to be rid of colonial masters.According to East Providence police, as reported by the news outlet golocalprov.com, Wood was hit by a car as he crossed the supermarket’s…
President Donald Trump has nominated Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer, to officially take over the role of attorney general, the top law enforcement position in the United States.Currently, Blanche serves as attorney general in an interim capacity. But the Federal Vacancies Reform Act generally caps such temporary leaders at 210 days.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAs of Monday, he has served in the role for roughly 67 days, since the April 2 firing of his predecessor, Pam Bondi. Naming a nominee, however, could allow Trump to legally extend the interim period beyond 210 days.Blanche’s nomination sets him…
Four states are set to hold their primary votes, further solidifying the battle lines for the United States midterm elections in November.On Tuesday, citizens in Maine, South Carolina, North Dakota and Nevada are set to cast their ballots in party primaries, designed to select which Democratic and Republican candidates advance to the final round of voting.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut Maine has emerged as one of the most heated primary battlegrounds. With Democrats desperate to flip four seats in the US Senate, all eyes are on Republican Senator Susan Collins’s re-election campaign.Democrats are hoping to defeat her…
Rome is the second in Europe to launch a probe into Israel’s treatment of activists detained as they headed to Gaza.Published On 8 Jun 20268 Jun 2026Italian prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over the treatment of Italian nationals detained during the interception of an aid flotilla bound for Gaza.Italian news agency ANSA reported on Monday that prosecutors in Rome had placed Ben-Gvir under investigation in connection with a video he posted following the detention of the activists last month.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe announcement makes Italy the second European country to…
The 80 proposed listings target Russia’s ‘military industrial complex, human rights violators and propagandists’.Published On 8 Jun 20268 Jun 2026The European Union is seeking to boost a $1.5 trillion hit on Russia’s economy by widening its sanctions web.The bloc is weighing new restrictions on another 80 entities and individuals supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters on Monday in Cyprus, following an informal meeting of EU defence ministers.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listEighty new designations targeting Russia’s “military industrial complex, human rights violators and propagandists” have been proposed, Kallas said.“Putin is losing money,…
A government-funded pilot of “hyperlocal” job support in 10 neighbourhoods across England has shown “promising early signs of effectiveness”, including for young people, and could be scalable nationwide, a new evaluation has shown.The JobsPlus scheme, backed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Youth Futures Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation, focuses intensive support in a small area of predominantly social housing. Echoing a similar, long-established scheme in the US, “community champions” at each site help to engage hard-to-reach people in the local area.Residents of social housing are almost twice as likely to be unemployed as the population…