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European news is dominated by politics this morning with the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell suggesting suspending EU-Israel political talks as a recent report
Editorial 14.11.24
European news is dominated by politics this morning with the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell suggesting suspending EU-Israel political talks as a recent report alleged Israel has violated human rights and international law in the Gaza Strip.
European leaders are preparing to boost support for Kyiv in preparation for Donald Trump as the incoming president has threatened to cut the US’ contributions.
Prosecutors in France are seeking jail time and an election ban for Marine Le Pen. If she is found guilty of misusing public funds she could be ruled out of the 2027 presidential election.
All eyes will be on the France-Israel football match amid fears of violence between clashing groups of pro-Palestine and pro-Israeli supporters attending the match. French authorities have ramped up security ahead of the game.
Germany – Europe’s largest economy – is facing political turmoil of its own following the collapse of its coalition government. The election campaigning has well and truly begun as leaders make their pitches for the snap election in February.
Spain is preparing for more floods as severe weather warnings are issued.
Thousands evacuated in Málaga as Spain faces severe flooding
Heavy rains and flooding have forced thousands of people to leave their homes in Málaga and the surrounding Costa del Sol region of southern Spain. The national weather agency, Aemet, has issued the highest-level weather alerts for Málaga and Catalonia, warning that extreme conditions could last until Friday.
Paris protests over Israeli far-right gala aimed at raising funds for Israel
Thousands of protesters marched through Paris on Wednesday night, denouncing a secretive gala organised by Israel’s far-right. The event aimed to raise funds for Israel and initially featured controversial Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich as a guest, though he cancelled his visit at the last minute. Known for his hardline stances, Smotrich has previously advocated for West Bank annexation and made inflammatory comments about Arabs.
Borrell proposes to suspend EU-Israel political talks over Gaza war
Josep Borrell’s proposal, made in view of alleged human rights violations, is highly likely to be vetoed by member states.
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has proposed to formally suspend political dialogue with Israel over the country’s alleged violations of human rights and international law in the Gaza Strip.
The suspension of political dialogue depends on unanimity among member states, and so the plan is almost certain to fail given sharp divisions over the Israel-Hamas war.
French prosecutors demand jail time, ban on public office for Le Pen over embezzlement charges
French prosecutors demanded Wednesday that far-right leader Marine Le Pen receive a jail sentence and be banned from public office for five years over charges she embezzled European Parliament funds.
The prosecution made the request in a Paris court where Le Pen and other defendants from her National Rally party are on trial accused of creating fake jobs at the EU parliament. She denies the charges.
If granted by the court, the ban would exclude the 56-year-old from running in France’s 2027 presidential election.
Italy’s coastguard accused of ‘multiple manslaughter’ over migrant shipwreck deaths
The migrant rescue charity Sea-Watch has filed a criminal complaint to Italian prosecutors accusing the nation’s coastguard of negligence and “multiple manslaughter” over its response to a shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa that left 21 people dead.
The German NGO said it had asked the public prosecutor’s office in Agrigento, Sicily, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the 21 migrants in a shipwreck involving a boat that had departed from Libya in early September.
The secret winners of the speech battle
It was a historic exchange of blows: For more than two hours, the Bundestag debated the government crisis and upcoming new elections. Politics professor Jasmin Riedl (Bundeswehr University Munich) describes Scholz’s performance as “determined”: “He feels comfortable in election campaign mode, where he can show his party politician,” she says. “He is making his political profile clear for the election campaign: social policy for those who have little money in the bank, no battles over distribution, no either/or.”
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
After aid trucks entered a shelter & reached the families in Beit Hanoun, the israeli waited for them leave, then killed the people & burnt the aid
Musk now has his hands on US govt
Federal employees have to disclose their assets to ward off any potential conflicts of interest, and to divest significant holdings which counter their work
Musk will NOT be a formal worker so won't face those ethical limitations.
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After Russia invaded Ukraine, it was swiftly banned from all UEFA & FIFA tournaments.
Yet, after 13 months of genocide that has claimed 118,000+ Palestinian lives, Israel faces no such sanctions — highlighting the racist double standards entrenched in global politics & sports.
The upcoming match will be a big test for France, which is home to the biggest Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe and is a place where conflicts in the Middle East have historically reverberated
The UK needs to view London’s capital markets as a “driver of the domestic economy” rather just a venue for share trading, the boss of the London Stock Exchange said yesterday.
November 16, 2024
11:01 am
England’s top-flight women’s league returns.
| Brighton vs West Ham | 12:30 | WSL YouTube |
| Tottenham vs Arsenal | 13:45 | BBC One, BBC iPlayer |
| Chelsea vs Manchester City | 17:30 | Sky Sports |
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Mabon ap Gwynfor said Welsh police reported more than 45,000 cases of domestic abuse in 2022/23 and almost 10,000 sexual offences the previous year, with many more unrecorded.
Leading a Senedd debate, the Plaid Cymru politician challenged a tendency to believe rural Wales is an exception, with domestic violence “limited” to urban areas only.
Domestic violence epidemic
“The evidence shows otherwise,” he said. “Rates of domestic abuse in north Wales are higher than those in the city of london.
“North Wales even faces the same level of sexual crimes as Greater Manchester, which has a population five times the size.”
Trump in the US is going to make things much worse
Mr ap Gwynfor added: “I am afraid the election of President Trump in the US is going to make things much worse as he makes misogynistic attitudes acceptable again.”
Postcode lottery
He said victims wait a year for support in Cardiff or Merthyr but four months in Swansea, asking: “How can we justify someone’s trauma being dependent on a postcode lottery?”
Mr ap Gwynfor said the NSPCC found one in five children have experienced domestic violence, with Childline Cardiff holding 4,000 counselling sessions in the past year.
Calling for urgent devolution, he warned that prosecution statistics suggest sexual violence has effectively been legalised, with victims let down and public trust eroded.
Senedd committee’s alarm over domestic violence ‘epidemic’
Labour’s Joyce Watson said a vigil will be held outside the Senedd on November 25 to mark White Ribbon Day, the international day for ending violence against women and children.
Sioned Williams raised the NSPCC’s calls for sustainable long-term funding for specialist support for children and young people who are survivors of domestic violence.
“corrosive” effect of social media
Luke Fletcher warned of the “corrosive” effect of social media, calling for a crackdown on misogynistic content targeted at young men.
Responding to the debate on November 13, Jane Hutt pointed to progress made in tackling violence against women and girls but she recognised “so much more needs to be done”.
Ms Hutt, Wales’ social justice secretary, highlighted horrifying statistics from July showing that two million women in the UK are victims of male violence every year.
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