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Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of Henry Nowak, 18, who was stabbed several times; the victim was handcuffed and arrested while he was telling police he had been stabbed and saying ‘I can’t breathe’. Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said that he ‘felt sick’ watching bodycam footage of the incident. Nicola Sturgeon, in a remarkable interview with the BBC about the embezzlement of £400,310.65 by her now-estranged husband, Peter Murrell, said she expected ‘a legal process to recover the money from Peter’, but she emphasised that: ‘I am not guilty of that embezzlement, so nothing that belongs to me should be part of that.’ Three steelworks workers and an accomplice pleaded guilty to stealing 49 tons of tin ingots worth almost £1.2 million from Tata Steel in Llanelli. Royal Mail delivered only 75.7 per cent of first-class letters on time in the year to the end of March. London Underground drivers went on strike again.
Lord Mandelson ‘declined to comply’ with a request from the Cabinet Office for ‘any information held on his personal phone’, according to a note published with 1,500 pages of documents as part of the parliamentary inquiry into his appointment as UK ambassador to Washington in December 2024. In a handwritten note to David Lammy, then foreign secretary, on 18 November 2024, he had said: ‘I just wanted you to know that if you were minded to appoint me, I would make sure you never regret it.’ Downing Street confirmed that Sir Keir Starmer uses disappearing messages on WhatsApp, and so they had disappeared. A message from Pat McFadden, reporting on conversations with Labour politicians, said: ‘Every meeting I have is “Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?”’
Britain, America and Australia agreed to develop underwater drones to protect undersea cables. From 15 to 19 June, resident doctors in England will hold their 16th strike. Britain will not have to pay Rwanda millions of pounds over the asylum agreement cancelled by Sir Keir Starmer after he became prime minister, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled. In the seven days to 1 June, 577 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats. An artificial intelligence age-estimation tool will be deployed next year, the Home Office said, to detect migrants pretending to be children. A newly discovered species of moss-dieback fungus has been found to destroy the aggressively invasive heath-star moss.
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Israel cancelled air strikes on Beirut after President Donald Trump of America had spoken to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. According to the news website Axios, an American official summarised Mr Trump’s remarks as: ‘You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you.’ Israel took Beaufort Castle, rebuilt by King Fulk of Jerusalem in 1139. Iranian and American forces launched missiles. Captain Sean Barbabella, Mr Trump’s doctor, said in a memorandum that he was ‘fully fit to carry out all duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State’; he was ‘within normal limits’ on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
Kenneth Law, 60, pleaded guilty in Ontario to 14 counts of aiding suicides in Canada after selling toxic chemicals online; prosecutors said he had also sold about 1,200 packages of toxic substances to recipients whom he met in online suicide forums in 40 countries, about a quarter sent to Britain. A rocket made by the company Blue Origin, founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, exploded on its launch pad in Florida during a test. Ferrari shares fell by 8 per cent after it unveiled its first fully electric car, the £474,000 Luce. The European Union fined the Chinese-owned online retailer Temu €200 million for having illegal goods such as dangerous baby toys for sale on its platform. Paris Saint-Germain retained the Champions League title after beating Arsenal on penalties; 780 fans were arrested after rioting and setting fire to cars.
A Russian drone hit a block of flats in the Romanian city of Galati, near the Ukraine border. A Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine killed 22 people in one night. French commandos boarded and seized a sanctioned Russian oil tanker 400 miles off Brittany. At least 256 deaths from Ebola virus were reported from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ghanaian parliament passed a bill making it punishable by imprisonment to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.
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