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- Protesters clash with riot police near Les Invalides in Paris
- Ontario NDP calls on Ford and Carney to purchase Stelco amid layoffs
- Bipartisan senators urge Trump to withdraw from Russian diesel deal
- Civil servant accused of fraud for holding multiple full-time jobs
- Researchers search Nikumaroro Island for Amelia Earhart’s plane wreckage
- Ukraine reports no advance warning of Russian missile strikes on Kyiv
- Russia launches renewed offensive in eastern Ukraine amid heavy fighting
- Air France to comply with Israeli restrictions on crew nationalities
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Protesters clash with riot police near Les Invalides in Paris
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Protesters clash with riot police near Les Invalides in Paris
Protest Clash
Video footage shows protesters clashing with riot police near Place Vauban, adjacent to Les Invalides in Paris’s 7th arrondissement.
Video footage shows protesters clashing with riot police near Place Vauban, adjacent to Les Invalides in Paris’s 7th arrondissement.
Protest Significance
The clashes between protesters and riot police in central Paris signal escalating tensions, underscoring the potential for broader unrest in urban areas across France.
The clashes between protesters and riot police in central Paris signal escalating tensions, underscoring the potential for broader unrest in urban areas across France.
Protester Reaction
“We will not be silenced; our demands will be heard,” stated one protester amidst the clashes with riot police in Paris.
“We will not be silenced; our demands will be heard,” stated one protester amidst the clashes with riot police in Paris.
Violence in Paris as tens of thousands turn out for student protests across France
Video footage posted to social media appeared to show protesters clash with riot police around the Place Vauban, next to Les Invalides in the capital’s 7th arrondissement.
Ontario NDP calls on Ford and Carney to purchase Stelco amid layoffs
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Get you up to speed: Ontario NDP urges Ford, Carney to buy Stelco as firm eyes layoffs
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles stated that public ownership of Stelco is becoming the only option to preserve approximately 350 jobs. The statement was made during a press conference on Tuesday.
The Ontario NDP Leader is advocating for public ownership of Stelco as a viable solution amid ongoing discussions about the future of the company. Investigations into the potential impacts on employment and community stability are currently underway.
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles stated that public ownership of Stelco is becoming the only viable option to preserve approximately 350 jobs. The party is expected to push for discussions on this solution in the coming weeks.
What remains unclear — It is not yet known how public ownership of Stelco would be implemented or funded.
Ontario NDP calls on Ford and Carney to purchase Stelco amid layoffs
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles told reporters Tuesday that public ownership of Stelco is emerging as the only option to save roughly 350 jobs.
Bipartisan senators urge Trump to withdraw from Russian diesel deal
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Get you up to speed: Bipartisan senators urge Trump to rescind Russian diesel deal, calling it a “betrayal” of Ukraine
A bipartisan group of senators urged President Trump to withdraw from a diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and rescind a waiver on sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, citing threats to American security and a betrayal of Ukraine. The deal involves the immediate release of 300,000 tons of diesel from Russia, amid rising gas and diesel prices in the US, which the senators argue will not benefit American consumers.
The Treasury Department’s temporary waiver of sanctions on Russia’s energy sector was announced in conjunction with the diesel deal struck by President Trump. The recent Russian sanctions package, approved by Congress and signed into law by Mr. Trump, provides authorities aimed at increasing economic pressure on Russia to facilitate a resolution to the conflict.
A bipartisan group of senators has urged President Trump to withdraw from his diesel deal with Russia, stating it “damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine.” They highlighted that allowing Russian diesel on global markets will have “limited to no relief” for American consumers and may finance the Kremlin’s military efforts.
What remains unclear — It is not specified whether President Trump will respond to the senators’ request to withdraw from the diesel deal with Russia.
Bipartisan senators urge Trump to withdraw from Russian diesel deal
Washington — A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday urged President Trump to withdraw from his diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and rescind a move to waive sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, saying it “damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine.”
“This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies; it should be rescinded,” the senators wrote.
Mr. Trump announced last week that he had struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to have Moscow immediately release 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by millions more in the coming months. Putin said Russia “confirmed its readiness to supply oil and petroleum products to the American and global markets.” And the Treasury Department also announced that it would temporarily waive sanctions on Russia’s energy sector to “allow the supply of Russian diesel to the global market.”
The move, which comes as Americans are struggling with high gas and diesel prices amid the war with Iran, has sparked scrutiny from both sides of the aisle. In their letter on Tuesday, a dozen senators criticized the effort, including six Republicans: Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Alan Armstrong of Oklahoma, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn of Texas.
Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Chris Coons of Delaware also signed on to the letter.
The senators wrote that although Americans support ending the Russia-Ukraine war, a brokered peace “must be on just terms,” and uphold “democratic values, the sovereignty and security of Ukraine, and their people’s right to choose their future.”
The deal struck with Putin, the senators wrote, “will not achieve just ends, nor will it benefit Americans.”
The senators acknowledged the “urgent need” to lower energy costs for Americans. But they said allowing Russian diesel to be sold on global markets “will offer limited to no relief to Americans” and would have a “negligible impact on fuel prices,” while the revenues the Kremlin would receive would “undoubtedly finance its desired war of attrition and advance its security cooperation with China, Iran, and North Korea.”
Congress approved a Russian sanctions package just last month, which Mr. Trump signed into law. The senators noted that the law granted the president “authorities to broker a just and fair peace,” arguing that those authorities “require you to apply economic pressure on Russia” and “thereby enhance your negotiating position to bring a swift end to this ruinous conflict.”
“For decades, America has stood as the bastion of freedom against tyranny, and American presidents have embodied our nation’s resistance to tyrants,” they wrote, urging the president to withdraw from the agreement, rescind the Treasury Department’s move to waive sanctions, and execute the authorities under the Russia sanctions legislation. “Maintain our legacy — and the duty America holds — as leader of the free world.”
Civil servant accused of fraud for holding multiple full-time jobs
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Get you up to speed: Civil servant ‘secretly took five full-time WFH jobs raking in £350,000’ | News UK
Kashim Chowdhury, a 55-year-old civil servant, is on trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, accused of fraud for allegedly holding multiple full-time government jobs simultaneously. Prosecutors claim he exploited remote working practices to secure nearly £350,000 from eight employers between February 2020 and September 2023.
Kashim Chowdhury, aged 55, is currently on trial at Southwark Crown Court facing nine counts of fraud related to his employment across multiple government roles. The alleged fraud was uncovered following an alert from the National Fraud Initiative to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Kashim Chowdhury, a civil servant accused of fraud for allegedly holding multiple full-time government jobs simultaneously, denies all nine counts against him. The trial continues at Southwark Crown Court, where the prosecution presented evidence revealing that Chowdhury exploited remote work arrangements to obtain around £350,000 from eight employers between February 2020 and September 2023.
What remains unclear — It is not specified how the alleged fraud was initially detected by the National Fraud Initiative.
Civil servant accused of fraud for holding multiple full-time jobs
A civil servant ‘exploited’ work from home culture to obtain a string of overlapping full-time jobs, a court has heard.
At one point, Kashim Chowdhury’s contracted hours amounted to seven and a half days a week, Southwark Crown Court was told.
The 55-year-old, from Whitechapel, east London, is said to have raked in nearly £350,000 from eight employers between February 2020 and September 2023.
The defendant denies nine counts of fraud.
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During the opening of his trial on Tuesday, the court heard that he began working for Tower Hamlets Council in February 2020, before taking a second job with the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in April 2021.
The two roles overlapped for more than a year, the court heard.
For four months in 2022, he also held a third position with East London NHS Trust.
After leaving the council, prosecutors say Chowdhury continued working for Defra while gaining further jobs with the Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the Department for Business and Trade, the Food Standards Agency and the Home Office.
In May 2023, he was allegedly being paid for five full-time jobs.
Ms Organ told jurors that Chowdhury made false representations about his existing employment when applying for the roles.
‘Clearly, he would not have been employed by his employers if they had known he had multiple other full-time jobs,’ she said.
The court heard that Chowdhury had told employers he had to work from home to care for his ‘unwell’ mother.
But Ms Organ said his workload eventually became ‘too much to cope with’ and his performance suffered.
He then allegedly took sick leave from some jobs while continuing to work in his other positions.
The court heard that Chowdhury was signed off work for some jobs due to ‘mixed anxiety and a depressive disorder’, but did not hand his sick note to all his employers.
At the time, prosecutors say, he was secretly holding five jobs.
Chowdhury appeared on camera ‘coughing and blowing his nose’, the court heard.
Ms Adams said that his face appeared white while his neck was a different colour, prosecutors say.
During the meeting she saw the make up on his forehead begin to separate, showing his real skin underneath, the court heard.
Ms Organ told jurors: ‘There could be no doubt about it, the defendant had applied make up to his face for this Teams meeting to try and pretend to his line manager that he was unwell.
‘This almost laughable incident demonstrates, we say, quite how far the defendant was willing to go in his deceit.’
Chowdhury had also ‘messed up’ by logging on to the meeting with a Defra email address, the court heard.
He allegedly said to Ms Adams that it could be an old address.
The prosecutor said this was a ‘lie’ to conceal the fact he was working elsewhere at the same time.
Jurors heard that the alleged frauds came to light after the National Fraud Initiative alerted DEFRA to them.
Ms Organ said that between March 2020 and September 2023, Chowdhury had over £300,000 in credits into his three bank accounts and nearly £250,000 in debits.
The trial continues.
Researchers search Nikumaroro Island for Amelia Earhart’s plane wreckage
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Get you up to speed: Crew searching for Amelia Earhart explore ‘crab-infested’ remote island for plane wreckage | News World
Researchers from the Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue University are searching for the remnants of Amelia Earhart’s plane on Nikumaroro Island after satellite imagery suggests the presence of aircraft debris. The team will conduct the search over approximately five days, during which they will stay on a research vessel at night to avoid encounters with Coconut crabs.
The research team, comprising members from the Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue University, will conduct their search on Nikumaroro Island over a span of five days. Previous investigations have raised concerns about Coconut crabs, known to potentially disturb remains, prompting the team to sleep on their vessel to mitigate risks.
The Archaeological Legacy Institute is leading a research expedition to Nikumaroro Island, expecting to search for remnants of Amelia Earhart’s plane over five days, with plans to sleep aboard their vessel to avoid potential threats from Coconut crabs. Richard Pettigrew, the executive director of ALI, has stated that financial support for this fieldwork is needed for a conclusive examination of the area, which may potentially unravel the mystery of Earhart’s disappearance.
What remains unclear — It is still uncertain whether the identified objects in the satellite imagery are definitively the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane.
Researchers search Nikumaroro Island for Amelia Earhart’s plane wreckage
The research group will spend around five days on the island (Picture: Getty)
Researchers have begun to search for the remnants of Amelia Earhart’s plane on a remote Pacific Island.
A group from the Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue University will search Nikumaroro Island for wreckage after satellite imagery appears to show remains of a plane’s tail and wing.
Earhart, her co-pilot Fred Noonan and their plane vanished in 1937 as they attempted to fly around the world.
Earhart spoke to the US Coast Guard and said she wasn’t able to find Howland Island before they lost communication.
Richard Pettigrew, executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) at Purdue, suspects Earhart and Noonan may have miscalculated and ended up on Nikumaroro Island instead of Howland Island, which lies further north.
They said satellite imagery shows objects that they believe are the remains of the plane’s tail, wing, and body sitting just metres from the shoreline.
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Satellite imagery has shown what could be airplane debris (Picture: Archaeological Legacy Institute)
The team is expected to search the remote island for around five days, but they could encounter Coconut crabs – giant land crabs which are known to feast on small mammals.
To be safe, they will sleep on the research vessel at night to avoid the crabs.
The crabs can have a leg span of up to three feet and can climb trees and crack open coconuts, making them a bit of an issue for researchers.
There have been theories that Earhart and Noonan may have died when their plane crashed on the island, and their bodies were carried away by the crabs.
Human bones, discovered on the island in 1940, were forensically analysed in 2017 and found to have dimensions that matched Earhart’s bone lengths more closely than 99% of the population.
Amelia Earhart and her navigator Captain Fred Noonan both vanished (Picture: Getty)
The period-specific artefacts, meanwhile, included a woman’s shoe, a compact case, a jar of freckle cream, and a medicine vial.
A further clue supporting the theory that Earhart’s journey ended on or near Nikumaroro is a photo taken just three months after the disappearance that appears to show the plane’s landing gear on the Nikumaroro reef.
A satellite image from 2020 shows what looks like the same object, which is known as the Bevington Object, in the same spot decades later.
Who was Amelia Earhart?
Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, in 1897 to a father who was a railroad lawyer, but later suffered from alcoholism, leaving the family often struggling for money.
She left junior college early to become a nurse’s aide and helped care for soldiers wounded in World War I and later started a premed programme, but quit after her parents asked her to move back home to California.
It was there she took her first flight as a passenger in 1920 and was entranced immediately, saying: ’As soon as I left the ground, I knew I had to fly.’
She started taking lessons, bought her first plane, and by 1922 became the first woman to fly at 14,000 feet.
Earhart was chosen as the first female passenger to fly across the Atlantic in 1928, and became a celebrity overnight.
Then in 1932 she became the first woman, and second person ever, to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic.
It took her 15 hours, in which time she had to contend with mechanical issues, cold, tiredness and a drop of 3,000 feet on her descent.
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Ukraine reports no advance warning of Russian missile strikes on Kyiv
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Ukraine reports no advance warning of Russian missile strikes on Kyiv
Missile Strike
Ukrainian Air Force reported that approximately six Russian ballistic missiles were launched towards Kyiv on Monday night, resulting in five impacting civilian infrastructure.
Ukrainian Air Force reported that approximately six Russian ballistic missiles were launched towards Kyiv on Monday night, resulting in five impacting civilian infrastructure.
Intelligence Dynamics
US intelligence remains vital for Ukraine’s defensive operations, particularly in predicting Russian missile launches, underscoring the geopolitical leverage Washington holds over Kyiv amid evolving tensions.
US intelligence remains vital for Ukraine’s defensive operations, particularly in predicting Russian missile launches, underscoring the geopolitical leverage Washington holds over Kyiv amid evolving tensions.
Intelligence Assurance
“Intelligence on Russian ballistic missile launches helps save lives and this is one of the most critical issues,” stated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“Intelligence on Russian ballistic missile launches helps save lives and this is one of the most critical issues,” stated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Could the US cut Ukraine off from vital military intelligence again?
When Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv on Monday night, residents were caught off guard. There was no advance air-raid warning, leaving people confused and with no time to seek shelter as explosions rocked the capital.
Such incidents have occurred before, but this time the lack of warning fuelled speculation that Washington might have suspended intelligence-sharing with Kyiv amid escalating diplomatic tensions.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Tuesday that Ukraine had received no advance warning from its partners about the incoming missiles, stressing that such intelligence was critical to save civilian lives.
Ukraine’s Air Force initially reported that Russian forces had launched what appeared to be six ballistic missiles towards the capital at approximately 10pm.
Zelenskyy subsequently said five missiles had struck civilian infrastructure, describing the attack as “particularly vile.”
“Intelligence on Russian ballistic missile launches helps save lives and this is one of the most critical issues. This is precisely what helps prevent people from being killed – when there is an early warning about ballistic missiles,” Zelenskyy said.
But Ukrainian presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov, known as “Flash”, cautioned against linking the incident to a possible US intelligence cut-off.
“This is not the first time that an S-400 launch has gone undetected by our partners’ intelligence services. There are certain technical nuances involved. We should not jump to conclusions,” he wrote in a post on Facebook.
Ukraine’s Air Force said its radar systems detected the incoming missiles during the attack, but that it had received no information about their launch from Russian territory. It said it was investigating why the warning had not arrived.
Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat confirmed that the air-raid alert had sounded only once the attack was under way, but stressed that the US was not Ukraine’s only intelligence partner, with other NATO countries also providing information on Russian strategic aviation, naval movements and ballistic missile launches.
“There are moments when this information fails to arrive. This is not the first case,” Ihnat said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha also dismissed speculation that Washington had deliberately withheld intelligence.
Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum Sybiha said intelligence cooperation with the US was continuing and attributed the absence of an early warning to a “special type of weaponry” used by Russia.
The European Commission also sought to play down concerns about a possible suspension, saying on Tuesday that, to its knowledge, Washington had not threatened to cut off intelligence-sharing or weapons sales to Ukraine.
Washington’s intelligence leverage
The uncertainty comes amid reports that Washington has threatened to suspend intelligence-sharing and weapons sales, including supplies purchased by European allies for Ukraine, unless Kyiv stops targeting Russian oil refineries.
Ukraine considers Russian oil facilities legitimate military targets, arguing that the revenues they generate help Moscow finance its war.
The possibility of a suspension is far from hypothetical.
In March 2025, the Trump administration temporarily halted intelligence-sharing and military assistance to Ukraine amid a diplomatic confrontation with Kyiv. Both were subsequently restored following talks between American and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia.
The episode demonstrated how quickly Washington could use security cooperation as a source of political leverage and how dependent Ukraine remained on American capabilities.
US intelligence remains crucial to Ukraine’s ability to anticipate Russian attacks, particularly through satellite-based systems capable of detecting missile launches before incoming weapons appear on ground-based radar.
Other NATO countries also share intelligence with Kyiv, but it remains unclear how far European allies could compensate should another American suspension come into force.
For now Ukrainian officials largely insist cooperation with Washington continues and there is no evidence that Monday’s missing warning resulted from a deliberate decision to withhold intelligence.
European military sources told EU News that intelligence-sharing would likely be the last form of US support to be withdrawn, as cutting it off could also put American diplomats and those of its allies stationed in Ukraine at risk.
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