Sánchez: Europe’s response to war in Gaza has been a ‘failure’ pred 1 dnevom, 13 urami in 5 minutami Spanish prime minister says double standards over Gaza and Ukraine threaten to undermine the west’s global standing‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far rightEurope and the west’s double standards over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza threaten to undermine its global standing, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has warned, describing the response to Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory as one of the darkest episodes of international relations in the 21st century.In an interview with the Guardian before talks with UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, in London on Wednesday, the socialist leader also said the US under Donald Trump was trying to end the post-second world war, rules-based global order it had originally created. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
New Green leader Polanski distances party from electoral pact with Corbyn pred 1 dnevom, 13 urami in 5 minutami Leftist would need to see ‘very strong arguments’ before agreeing a deal with party launched by ex-Labour leaderThe new Green leader, Zack Polanski, has said he would need to see “very strong arguments” before agreeing any electoral pact with Jeremy Corbyn, arguing that there is enough space on the left of British politics for both to thrive.Polanski earned a resounding mandate to take the Greens in England and Wales in a more explicitly leftwing direction on Tuesday, winning 85% of member votes, a crushing defeat for the joint ticket of Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, two of the party’s four MPs. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Xi, Putin and Kim: behind the choreographed image that could symbolise a shift in the global balance of power pred 1 dnevom, 13 urami in 20 minutami In an unprecedented spectacle the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea led a group of more than 20 world leaders at a victory day parade in BeijingFull report: Xi Jinping appears with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un at China military paradeIt is an image that, had it been published just a few years ago, would have been dismissed as a piece of mischievous photo-shopping: the leaders of Russia and China, accompanied by the head of a pariah regime whose mission to arm his country with nuclear weapons had been opposed at the United Nations by his two companions.But dramatic shifts in the geopolitical landscape – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and, crucially, the re-election of Donald Trump – have combined to bring Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un together in what many observers are calling a dramatic redrawing of the global balance of power. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first pred 1 dnevom, 13 urami in 21 minutami Victorian solicitor stripped of his ability to practise as a principal lawyer after acknowledging he did not verify case listFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Victorian lawyer has become the first in Australia to face professional sanctions for using artificial intelligence in a court case, being stripped of his ability to practise as a principal lawyer after AI generated false citations that he had failed to verify.Guardian Australia reported in October last year that in a 19 July 2024 hearing, the anonymous solicitor representing a husband in a dispute between a married couple provided the court with a list of prior cases that had been requested by Justice Amanda Humphreys in relation to an enforcement application in the case. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton takes party to court in bid to reinstate life membership pred 1 dnevom, 13 urami in 57 minutami Affidavit filed in Queensland supreme court as Hutton seeks to overturn expulsion from Greens over trans rights debateFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA co-founder of the Australian Greens is taking his former party to court in a bid to reinstate the life membership stripped from him about six weeks ago over what it considers his pursuit of debate harmful to trans people.Drew Hutton filed an affidavit in the Queensland supreme court on Tuesday arguing that he was denied natural justice and procedural fairness when the 78-year-old retiree had his membership terminated by an assembly of branch delegates on 20 July. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Indonesia embassy official’s shooting in Lima probably a ‘contract killing’, says Peru government pred 1 dnevom, 14 urami in 53 minutami Interior minister says ‘they were waiting for’ official who was shot at point-blank range outside his home in killing that has shocked PeruPeru’s government has said the fatal shooting of an Indonesian embassy official in Lima on Monday night was likely a “contract killing”.Zetro Leonardo Purba, 40, an official at the Indonesian embassy in Peru, was shot dead outside his block of flats in Lima’s Lince neighbourhood while riding a bicycle home from work on Monday evening. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
California bill requires families to be alerted of immigration agents on school campuses pred 1 dnevom, 15 urami in 1 minuto Bill says state and community colleges must have ‘early warning systems in place’ amid Trump’s deportation pushCalifornia lawmakers have passed a bill requiring schools to alert families and teachers when immigration enforcement authorities are on campuses as the Trump administration continues its aggressive mass deportation campaign.Under the bill, K-12 schools, state universities and community colleges must notify students, faculty and staff, “similar to early warning systems in place for other campus emergencies”, according to a statement from state senator Sasha Renée Pérez, who authored the legislation. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un join him for military parade pred 1 dnevom, 15 urami in 6 minutami Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the westXi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, flanked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the west.Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, are among dozens of world leaders attending the parade, a massive display of military hardware and personnel, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the Japanese War of Aggression. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
China’s victory day parade live: Xi Jinping appears alongside Putin and Kim Jong-un pred 1 dnevom, 16 urami in 15 minutami Xi Jinping is showing off China’s military hardware at event attended by leaders from Russia, North Korea, Iran and MyanmarSome images from Tiananmen Square:The leaders of China, Russia and North Korea have been photographed walking to the parade together. It is a striking image, that has been beamed onto large screens in Beijing. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files pred 1 dnevom, 16 urami in 42 minutami Oversight committee says it released records related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offenderThe US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the department of justice.The release comes as the Trump administration has been embroiled in months of controversy over its decision not to release additional files in the case. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges and was alleged to have abused hundreds of girls. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
