Police converge on U.S. campus protests
Cops 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 night time ordered protesters to depart their encampment on the College of California, Los Angeles, or face arrest. A stream of scholars left the encampment after the warning, however tons of remained inside, placing on helmets, masks and goggles as dozens of officers waited close by.
The night time earlier than, violent clashes erupted when a group of about 200 counterprotesters stormed the encampment, pepper-spraying protesters and making an attempt to demolish barricades. The 2 teams fought till officers quieted the unrest round 3:30 within the morning.
In New York Metropolis, cops in riot gear arrested demonstrators at Fordham College’s Manhattan campus, the third college within the metropolis, after Columbia and the Metropolis School of New York, to face mass arrests in 24 hours.
U.Ok. conservatives braced for tough native elections
Voters in England and Wales go to the polls right now to elect mayors and native council members, in what is going to inevitably be seen as a barometer for Britain’s coming normal elections. Given the Conservative Celebration’s dire ballot numbers and the bitter public temper, storm clouds are already forming.
The query will not be whether or not the Tories will lose seats to the Labour Celebration — that may be a foregone conclusion amongst pollsters — however whether or not the losses will exceed expectations. A professor of politics on the London College of Economics recommended that if the Conservatives, who’re defending 985 seats in England, can maintain their losses to fewer than about 500 seats, the celebration trustworthy will most likely settle for the setback. However steeper losses, he mentioned, may 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Arizona repealed a Nineteenth-century abortion ban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 ladies may 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 predicted to signal it on Thursday.
The ban had gathered mud for many years till Arizona’s Supreme Court docket dominated that it could possibly be enforced after the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade. The difficulty galvanized Democrats and created a rift on the appropriate between anti-abortion activists and Republican politicians who have been nervous a couple of political backlash.
In Florida, a ban on abortions after six weeks of being pregnant went into impact yesterday.
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Police officers are investigating what they consider is an unlimited, coordinated collection of thefts of uncommon Nineteenth-century Russian books — primarily first and early editions of Pushkin — from libraries throughout Europe. The thieves typically substitute 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 keeping with Europol. The College of Warsaw library was hit hardest, with 78 books gone.
The authorities have arrested 9 individuals in reference to the thefts, however who’s behind them stays an open query.
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