What Threats and Violence Did Jacinda Ardern Face as PM?
Threats and violence against the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have almost tripled over the last three years. Many of them are from conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. .
Threats and violence against the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have almost tripled over the last three years. Many of them are from conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. .
NATHAN CHASING HORSE : After achieving global fame at age 14 for his role in Dances with Wolves, Nathan Chasing Horse travelled across the US claiming to be a Lakota “medicine man.” But police and tribal elders say he used those spiritual traditions as a tool to sexually assault young girls. Bevan Hurley reports.
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Half a million workers went on strike in Britain on Wednesday, calling for higher wages in the largest such walkout in over a decade, closing schools and severely disrupting transport.Europe is battling a cost-of-living crisis and the latest strikes come a day after more than 1.27 million took to the streets in France, upping pressure on the French government over pension reform plans.Britain's umbrella labour organisation the Trades Union Congress (TUC) called it the "biggest day of strike action since 2011". Teachers and train drivers were among the latest groups to act, as well as border force workers at UK air and seaports."We are striking because for the past 10 years we had effectively had a pay cut," said job centre worker and union representative Graham, who preferred not to give his last name."Some of our members, even though they are working, still have to make visits to food banks," he told AFP. "Not only are wages not keeping up, but things like fares, council tax and rents are going up. Anything we get is eaten away."Britain has witnessed months of strikes by tens of thousands of workers -- including postal staff, lawyers, nurses and employees in the retail sector -- as UK inflation raced above 11 percent, the highest level in more than 40 years.- 'No magic wand' -At London's King's Cross rail station, Kate Lewis, a 50-year-old charity worker, said she sympathised with the strikers despite her train being delayed."I understand. We are all in the same boat. All impacted by inflation," she said.But government and company bosses are standing firm over wage demands.With thousands of schools closed for the day, Education Minister Gillian Keegan told Times Radio she was "disappointed" teachers had walked out.Union boss Mark Serwotka said the government's position was "unsustainable". "It's not feasible that they can sit back with this unprecedented amount of industrial action growing, because it's half a million today," he told Sky News."Next week, we have paramedics, and we have nurses, then will then be the firefighters," he added, warning that unions were prepared to strike throughout the summer."Nothing would give me more pleasure than, to wave a magic wand and have all of you paid lots more," British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told public health workers on Monday.- Nationwide rallies -"An important part of us getting a grip of inflation and halving it is making sure the government's responsible with its borrowing," he said."If that gets out of control that makes it worse and it's about making pay settlements reasonable and fair," Sunak added.The latest official data shows 1.6 million working days were lost from June-November last year because of strikes -- the highest six-month total in more than three decades -- according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).A total of 467,000 working days were lost to walkouts in November alone, the highest level since 2011, the ONS added.Alongside the strikes, unions are also staging rallies across the country against the Conservative government's plans to legislate against public sector strike action.Organised by the TUC, the nationwide protests will insist that "the right to strike is a fundamental British liberty", said the group's General Secretary Paul Nowak.Sunak has introduced a draft law requiring some frontline workers to maintain a minimum level of service during walkouts. The prime minister has defended the plans as "reasonable" and in line with other European countries. burs/jwp/am
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Delivering the eulogy at the funeral of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died three days after being beaten by Memphis police during a traffic stop, the Rev. Al Sharpton called out the five Black officers who have been charged in Nichols’s death for their conduct in the city where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
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Former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Deputies Andrew Buen and Kyle Gould are charged in the June 2022 death of 22-year-old Christian Glass. Sheila Flynn reports from Georgetown, Colorado
A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them.
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Hundreds of ribbons were tied to the railings outside St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney on Wednesday, February 1, for victim-survivors of child sexual abuse ahead of Cardinal George Pell’s funeral on Thursday.Footage by Sydney-based satirist and activist Pauline Pantsdown shows the colorful ribbons outside the cathedral. Paul Auchettl can be seen at the end of the footage.According to the ABC, Auchettl was a witness at the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse who travelled to Rome with a group of survivors to witness Pell giving evidence to the Royal Commission in 2016.The commission found Pell knew of allegations of offending in the Ballarat diocese as early as 1973, when he was Episcopal Vicar for Education, which Pell rejected.Auchettl, who is reportedly a survivor of child sexual abuse, organised the ribbon tying event and said it was not a protest aimed at Pell, but a reminder of the church’s debt to victims and their families, according to the ABC.“I’ve come to Sydney to tie ribbons for people who are too sick to be here, and who aren’t alive anymore, and for their families who are too angry to be here.”Pell’s body was lying in state on Wednesday before his funeral mass on Thursday. A separate funeral mass was held for Pell in Rome after he died there in early January aged 81. Credit: Pauline Pantsdown via Storyful
Ukrainian authorities raided an influential billionaire's home on Wednesday, part of what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said was a drive to root out corruption and help the country meet Western standards of clean governance. Separate raids were carried out at the Tax Office and on the home of a former interior minister, two days before Kyiv hosts a summit with the European Union where it wants to show it is cracking down after years of chronic corruption. Ukraine sees the summit as key to hopes of one day joining the bloc, a goal that has grown more urgent following Russia's invasion, and has also embarked on a political shake-up in which over a dozen officials quit or were sacked.
Ukrainian police staged a risky rescue mission in the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut this week to evacuate a six-year-old girl who had become separated from her pregnant mother. Young Arina was found living with her grandparents in a run-down apartment building in Bakhmut, which has been pummelled by Russian forces in heavy fighting. After trudging through snow to reach Arina, with artillery fire echoing in the distance, policeman Pavlo Dyachenko and two colleagues in combat gear drove Arina to the nearby city of Sloviansk to be reunited with her mother, Halyna Danylchenko.
A New York judge has prohibited Sam Bankman-Fried from attempting to contact any former or current employees of Alameda Research or FTX. The decision to amend the FTX founder's bail conditions, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday, comes after federal prosecutors filed a letter with the court on Friday asking for the former FTX CEO's bail conditions to be amended. Prosecutors claimed that Bankman-Fried had reached out to at least one employee – identified as Ryne Miller, the current general counsel for FTX US – to allegedly attempt to influence his future witness testimony.
Terry Hannifin and Sean Ryan were caught after going on a month-long crime spree in Warwickshire.
A Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department in Johor transported three Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) candidates via an aircraft from the Kampung Orang Asli Punan to SMK Nitar yesterday so they could sit for the examination. SPM, or the Malaysian Certificate of Education, is a national examination taken by all fifth-form secondary school students in Malaysia. …
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VIDEO SHOWS: STORY: Smoke and flames were seen above Gaza City, as jet engines rumbled in the sky. The strikes came hours after Israeli forces said they intercepted a rocket fired from the Gaza strip.Israel said it targeted rocket and weapon production sites used by Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the blockaded strip.Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier pledged a "strong, swift and precise" response to a deadly Palestinian shooting attack near a synagogue on Jerusalem's outskirts on Friday, which killed seven people.Top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have appealed for calm on both sides in the past week.