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France opens war crimes investigation into Gaza flotilla ‘torture’

France has opened an investigation into an alleged “war crime” and “torture” committed by Israeli authorities against French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. According to the national counterterrorism prosecutor’s office (PNAT), the French government requested the investigation after activists accused Israeli authorities of mistreatment during their detention last month.

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Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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The TelegraphHealth AlertsFrance

Macron’s government in turmoil over death of 11-year-old girl

Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged an “unacceptable” failure by the state in the case of a missing girl whose disappearance and death triggered turmoil at the Élysée. Gérald Darmanin, the justice minister, has summoned the nation’s prosecutors to Paris on Monday as officials scramble to explain why repeated warning signs around the prime suspect in the girl’s death appear to have been ignored.

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Man jailed for rape over which Andrew Malkinson was wrongly imprisoned

Paul Quinn’s minimum term of 14 years means he may serve less time than man wrongly convicted of 2003 Salford attackA “savage” rapist who evaded justice for nearly two decades could spend less time in prison than the innocent man who was wrongly convicted of his crime.Paul Quinn, 52, was ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years in prison on Friday over a 2003 rape for which Andrew Malkinson wrongly spent 17 years behind bars.

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Albanians fight Trump resort with blow-up flamingos

It is being hailed as the “Flamingo Revolution” – a grass-roots protest against plans by the Trump dynasty to turn a pristine stretch of coastline in Albania into a €1.4bn (£1.2bn) tourism development. Thousands of people took to the streets in Tirana, the Albanian capital, this week to call for the project to be scrapped, saying it will destroy one of the last untouched sections of coastline in the Mediterranean, home to turtles and monk seals.

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The TelegraphMusicUSA

How Trump’s ‘amateur’ C-list concerts collapsed

Those charged with organising celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence seemed to think that the United States’s semiquincentennial ought to be marked by a group of C-listers from the 1980s and Nineties. The Great American State Fair concert series was, we were told, going to “feature main-stage performances by legendary artists” in the heart of Washington DC over the next month.

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The GuardianAILondon

New claimants seek to sue Elon Musk’s xAI after Labour MP’s test case

Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI toolNew claimants have come forward to take legal action against Elon Musk’s company xAI after the Labour MP Jess Asato over demeaning sexualised material created by its Grok AI tool.A handful of complainants contacted Asato’s lawyer on Thursday in response to coverage of the MP’s decision to sue Musk’s company for damages over its creation and circulation of fake images of her in a bikini and an AI-created video that she said showed her “being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault”.

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The GuardianHealth AlertsUnited Kingdom

Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes run by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vulturesBring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster than you can stuff it in a sack. All you need do is join the market in what may now be England’s most lucrative commodity. A commodity with arms and legs, hearts and brains, thoughts and feelings. Children.Two years ago I after discovering that children in care who were being helped by a local charity I’m involved with were suddenly being whisked away, terminating the amazing progress they had been making, breaking their relationships, their sense of home, stability and security. When I began exploring why this was happening, I could scarcely believe what I was seeing: a highly lucrative trade in highly vulnerable young people. Children in “care” were being exchanged between private equity companies for £100,000 apiece. That figure is now wrong. Today they are worth far more.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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Inside one man’s botched deportation: seven flights, two swallowed batteries and a staggering bill for the UK taxpayer

Omar is married to a British woman, has a British son and was given a single non-custodial sentence nine years ago. Nonetheless, the Home Office was determined to deport him – whatever the costA year ago, Omar was living in the UK with his British wife and was determined to be a positive, consistent presence for his 10-year-old son, a British citizen from his first marriage. Omar is devoted to his child and has always been committed to guiding him to adulthood.But today, Omar, 40, lives in Egypt, separated from his family, thanks to an extraordinarily determined, turbulent and expensive campaign by the Home Office to remove him from the UK. (Omar is not his real name.)

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The GuardianHealth AlertsAustralia

Mafs Australia stars say the show is not safe for contestants: ‘They just sat back and let the cameras roll’

After serious allegations about the safety of the UK franchise, Australian cast members say they experienced ‘control, manipulation and isolation’Get our , or Less than two minutes into Australia’s latest season of , groom Tyson Gordon remarks: “If she’s a woke person, I don’t really stand for any of that shit.” Later in season 13, he worries that his wife is not the “submissive type”, in comments described at the time by the social services minister, Tanya Plibersek, as .Gordon later walked back his comments, telling 60 Minutes he had meant to say he was looking for a “traditional” woman rather than a “submissive” one.

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The GuardianCrime & SafetyUnited Kingdom

Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn

Campaigners say supreme court judgment on deprivation of liberty safeguards introduces ‘regressive legal standard’Severely disabled people will be at heightened risk of abuse in care homes and hospitals after the biggest upheaval in disability law in a generation overturned “vital” legal safeguards, campaigners have warned.They said a that potentially strips the right of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people to independent checks on the safety and appropriateness of their care “devalues the dignity of disabled people”.

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Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with new piece of legislation. It’s a trap | Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick

Israel and its lobby will use section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act to bind the US to a state that has gone rogueCongress is that would embed Israel’s military deeply within the US military-industrial complex. Stunned by the cratering of public support for Israeli policies in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank and towards Iran, Israel’s advocates are frantically seeking to preserve and even escalate US support for the Jewish state in ways that do not rely on defense of its policies or permit scrutiny of the manipulations involved.Politically, this means avoiding public discussion of Israeli policies in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank or Iran and disguising the sources of massive amounts of money pouring into election races to defeat candidates raising questions about US support for Israel. The proposed legislation shows what this means bureaucratically.

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