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Tory Chairman Richard Holden Clashes With Sky Reporter

Tory Chairman Richard Holden Clashes With Sky Reporter

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Tory chairman Richard Holden was involved in an extraordinary clash with a Sky News reporter after repeatedly dodging questions about the way he was chosen as an election candidate. A Conservative Party press officer had to eventually step in to end the interview with Jon Craig as the camera continued to roll. Tory bosses have been accused of a “stitch-up” after he was effectively imposed on the Basildon and Billericay constituency shortly before the selection deadline. Holden had been on the lookout for a seat after his previous North West Durham constituency was abolished. In the interview with Jon Craig today, he refused to answer questions on the row and instead tried to attack Labour’s Emily Thornberry over comments she made this morning on education. The exasperated journalist said: “So you can’t justify the way you have been parachuted into Basildon and Billericay. You’re not denying it’s a stitch-up and it’s anti-democratic?” Holden began to say: “Emily Thornberry has today admitted …” But Craig interrupted him to say: “I’m going to stop you now, this …

Loose Women’s Denise Welch clashes with Coleen Nolan after Meghan Markle debate

Loose Women’s Denise Welch clashes with Coleen Nolan after Meghan Markle debate

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Denise Welch and Coleen Nolan had a difficult on-air exchange on Loose Women following a guest’s declaration about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. On Monday’s episode (6 May) of the daytime ITV programme, royal expert Dickie Arbiter joined the panel to provide some commentary on the monarchy’s recent developments, including the King’s return to work after his cancer diagnosis, as well as the Princess of Wales’s cancer announcement. When asked his thoughts on whether the family could reconcile with Harry in light of his public estrangement from them, Arbiter, 83, was doubtful. “Harry has been rubbishing the family since he walked out in 2020,” he said, before noting the Duke of Sussex’s various TV interviews and best-selling memoir, detailing his issues with the family. “We had in 2021, Oprah; we had at the end of ’22, six hours of Netflix, and then we had at the beginning of …

Tbilisi rocked by clashes over ‘foreign influence’ bill for third consecutive night

Tbilisi rocked by clashes over ‘foreign influence’ bill for third consecutive night

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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Georgia on Thursday to protest against a “foreign influence” bill likened to Russian laws silencing dissent, an AFP journalist said. Issued on: 02/05/2024 – 21:42 1 min The Black Sea Caucasus nation has been gripped by mass anti-government protests since April 9, after the ruling Georgian Dream party reintroduced the bill that critics see as repressive. Unlike previous demonstrations in the capital Tbilisi, Thursday’s protests took place in two different locations: the traditional one in front of parliament, but also on Heroes Square, home to a monument dedicated to fallen Georgian soldiers. Police fired tear gas and arrested several protesters who had blocked the main road leading to Heroes Square. Demonstrators in front of the parliament then headed to the square, shouting “No to Russia!” and holding up placards of Georgia Dream MPs they branded as “traitors”. “We are all together to show the Kremlin’s puppets that we will not accept the government that goes against the Georgian people’s wishes,” said protester Giorgi Loladze, 27, …

Photos: Clashes at pro-Palestinian protests on California campuses

Photos: Clashes at pro-Palestinian protests on California campuses

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Police moved into the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on Thursday morning, dismantling tents, pushing out most of the protesters and arresting more than 200 people. The operation followed two days of upheaval that began when UCLA declared the camp “unlawful” and continued when a mob attacked the camp Tuesday night, with police taking hours to stop the violence. The Westwood campus became the first in the University of California system to move against an encampment. Others have been set up at UC campuses at Berkeley, Riverside and Irvine, along with colleges and universities across the nation, notably Cal Poly Humboldt. At USC, access to campus remains restricted to students, faculty, staff and registered guests after more than a week of protests over the Israel-Hamas war. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) Police officers take control of Royce Hall after pushing back pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA early Thursday morning. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times) A protester climbs a makeshift barricade blocking a building entrance at UCLA. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times) Police officers arrest a protester after an order to …

Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University while clashes break out at UCLA

Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University while clashes break out at UCLA

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Dueling groups of protesters clashed Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another. Hours earlier, police carrying riot shields burst into a building at Columbia University that pro-Palestinian protesters took over and broke up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school while inspiring others. Source link

Wednesday Briefing: Clashes Escalate on U.S. Campuses

Wednesday Briefing: Clashes Escalate on U.S. Campuses

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Tensions rise on U.S. campuses Clashes between the police, university administrators and protesters over the war in Gaza intensified at U.S. universities. Columbia University in New York said it would expel students who had occupied a school building as part of a pro-Palestinian demonstration early yesterday. The students behind a larger campus encampment said an “autonomous subgroup” had seized the building. Police officers have made new arrests at schools in California, North Carolina, Georgia and other states. In Virginia, officers used pepper spray at a campus on Monday. At the University of Texas, state troopers in riot gear broke up an encampment and arrested about 50 people. But there were signs that some protests might be waning. Police officers ended the eight-day occupation of an administration building at a state school in California. And encampments at Yale and the University of Pittsburgh appeared to have been vacated. In the Middle East: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel once again vowed to invade Rafah, in southern Gaza. The move could undermine efforts to negotiate a cease-fire …

Elon Musk Clashes With Australian Court Over Violent Videos on X

Elon Musk Clashes With Australian Court Over Violent Videos on X

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An Australian court on Wednesday extended an injunction ordering the social media platform X to remove videos depicting the recent stabbing of a bishop, setting the country’s judicial system up for a clash with the company’s owner, Elon Musk, who has decried the court’s order as censorship. Videos of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a church service on April 15 quickly started circulating on X, racking up hundreds of thousands of views. Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, a regulator overseeing online safety, ordered X and other social media platforms to remove posts showing the video the next day. Other platforms complied, and X blocked the content for Australian viewers. But Mr. Musk said that the platform would not delete the videos, which remain visible to users globally, prompting a judge to issue a temporary injunction against the company on Monday. That order was extended on Wednesday until a May 10 hearing, and X faces potential daily fines of roughly $509,000 for noncompliance. “Our concern is that if ANY country is allowed to censor content …

About 1,300 people from Myanmar flee into Thailand after clashes break out in key border town

About 1,300 people from Myanmar flee into Thailand after clashes break out in key border town

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BANGKOK —  About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas. Fighters from the Karen ethnic minority last week captured the last of the Myanmar army’s outposts in and around Myawaddy, which is connected to Thailand by two bridges across the Moei River. The latest clashes were triggered in the morning when the Karen guerillas launched an attack against Myanmar troops who were hiding near the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, a major crossing point for trade with Thailand, said police chief Pittayakorn Phetcharat in Thailand’s Mae Sot district. He estimated about 1,300 people fled into Thailand. Thai officials reported people had started crossing since Friday following clashes in several areas of Myawaddy. The fall of Myawaddy is a major setback for the military that seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021. Myanmar’s once-mighty armed forces have suffered a series of unprecedented defeats since last October, losing swathes of territory …

French, Lebanese Leaders Discuss Effort to Quell Hezbollah, Israel Clashes

French, Lebanese Leaders Discuss Effort to Quell Hezbollah, Israel Clashes

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron met Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the country’s army chief Joseph Aoun in Paris on Friday for talks on how to end cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel and ease a political stalemate in Lebanon. A statement from Mikati’s office said he discussed with Macron a French proposal to end cross-border fighting that envisions increased support for the Lebanese army and the withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from within 10 km (six miles) of the border. Mikati thanked Macron for his efforts “to stop the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and support the army with equipment and expertise to enable it to fully carry out its tasks,” the statement said. War in Israel and Gaza Iran-backed Hezbollah and the Israeli army have engaged in clashes across the Lebanese border since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on Oct. 7, marking their most serious hostilities since a war between them in 2006. The fighting has fuelled concern about the risk of further escalation. Macron and Mikati also discussed the need to …

Kay Burley Clashes With Grant Shapps Over Tory Sleaze

Kay Burley Clashes With Grant Shapps Over Tory Sleaze

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#KayBurley: 8 independent MPs, former Tories… what’s that saying about your party & the state of British politics? Grant Shapps: I thought I was on to talk about 2 wars KB: Do you think it’s funny… what should people be thinking about the Tory Party before the next GE? pic.twitter.com/an22G2X2fU — Haggis_UK ???????? ???????? (@Haggis_UK) April 18, 2024 The Sky News presenter grilled the defence secretary after Mark Menzies became the latest Conservative MP to lose the party whip. He is accused of using Tory campaign funds to pay off “bad people” he claimed had locked him in a flat, as well as for medical bills. Menzies, the MP for Flyde in Lancashire, denies the allegations but has agreed to “relinquish” the Tory whip while the party investigates the claims, which were first reported by The Times. As Burley grilled Shapps on the claims, he said: “I thought I was coming on to talk about the situation in Iran and the Middle East.” Burley replied: “We’ll come to that, Mr Shapps. In the next door …