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Police converge on U.S. campus protests
Police officers arrived on faculty campuses throughout the U.S., and scores of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had erected encampments and seized buildings have been arrested.
Officers final evening ordered protesters to go away their encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles, or face arrest. A stream of scholars left the encampment after the warning, however a whole lot remained inside, placing on helmets, masks and goggles as dozens of officers waited close by.
The evening earlier than, violent clashes erupted when a gaggle of about 200 counterprotesters stormed the encampment, pepper-spraying protesters and making an attempt to demolish barricades. The two teams fought till officers quieted the unrest round 3:30 within the morning.
In New York City, cops in riot gear arrested demonstrators at Fordham University’s Manhattan campus, the third college within the metropolis, after Columbia and the City College of New York, to face mass arrests in 24 hours.
U.Okay. conservatives braced for tough native elections
Voters in England and Wales go to the polls in the present day to elect mayors and native council members, in what is going to inevitably be seen as a barometer for Britain’s coming basic elections. Given the Conservative Party’s dire ballot numbers and the bitter public temper, storm clouds are already forming.
The query shouldn’t be whether or not the Tories will lose seats to the Labour Party — that may be a foregone conclusion amongst pollsters — however whether or not the losses will exceed expectations. A professor of politics on the London School of Economics steered that if the Conservatives, who’re defending 985 seats in England, can maintain their losses to fewer than about 500 seats, the party trustworthy will in all probability settle for the setback. But steeper losses, he stated, might set off a spasm of panic and even put Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s job in jeopardy.
Arizona repealed a Nineteenth-century abortion ban
Arizona lawmakers narrowly reversed a ban on abortion that turned regulation a half-century earlier than girls might vote.
A invoice to repeal the regulation handed within the Republican-controlled State Senate with the help of each Democratic senator and two Republicans. It now goes to Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, who is anticipated to signal it on Thursday.
The ban had gathered mud for many years till Arizona’s Supreme Court dominated that it may very well be enforced after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The challenge galvanized Democrats and created a rift on the proper between anti-abortion activists and Republican politicians who have been anxious a few political backlash.
In Florida, a ban on abortions after six weeks of being pregnant went into impact yesterday.
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Rare editions of Pushkin vanished from European libraries
Police officers are investigating what they imagine is an enormous, coordinated collection of thefts of uncommon Nineteenth-century Russian books — primarily first and early editions of Pushkin — from libraries throughout Europe. The thieves usually exchange the books with elaborate replicas and spirit them out of libraries.
Since 2022, greater than 170 books valued at greater than $2.6 million have vanished from libraries in Germany, Finland, France, Latvia and elsewhere, in response to Europol. The University of Warsaw library was hit hardest, with 78 books gone.
The authorities have arrested 9 folks in reference to the thefts, however who’s behind them stays an open query.
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That’s it for in the present day’s briefing. Thank you for studying, and see you tomorrow. — Dan
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