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- Associated Press
France asks citizens to leave Pakistan amid violent protests
The French embassy in Pakistan on Thursday advised all of its nationals and companies to temporarily leave the country after anti-France violence erupted in the Islamic nation over the arrest of a radical leader. Saad Rizvi was arrested Monday for threatening the government with mass protests if it did not expel French envoy Marc Baréty over the publication depictions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes Von Der Muhll said about 400 to 500 French nationals live in Pakistan and they will be able to leave via commercial flights.
- Reuters
EU, UK step up Northern Ireland talks as EU continues legal action
The European Union insisted on Friday that Britain not change trading rules in Northern Ireland on its own and said it would continue legal action against unilateral British action in the province for as long as necessary. European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic hosted UK negotiator David Frost for talks on Thursday evening and said that only agreements by joint bodies established by the Brexit divorce deal could provide stability in Northern Ireland. The British-ruled province is in the EU single market for goods to ensure an open border with EU member Ireland and so requires checks on goods coming from other parts of the United Kingdom.
- The Independent
Police identify Indianapolis shooter as former FedEx employee 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole
The FBI have reportedly seized evidence from an Indianapolis home
- The Independent
Lawyer of police officer who shot Adam Toledo says it’s ‘disheartening’ no one has asked how officer is doing
Police union president called the officer’s actions “heroic”
- The Independent
North Carolina teacher killed in shoot-out after trying to rob Mexican drug cartel
Barney Harris shot and killed despite wearing bulletproof vest to rob drugs and cash
- The Independent
Mitch McConnell refused to allow Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lie in state in Capitol, book claims
‘Mitch McConnell is not a force for good in our country,’ Nancy Pelosi reportedly told author
- The Independent
CNN crew member collapses as Daunte Wright protesters pelt reporters with bottle and eggs
‘A bottle of water knocked you out? Hahahaha’
- The Independent
Can you still get Covid-19 after having the vaccine?
Pfizer is 95 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 disease and Moderna is 94 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 disease
- The Independent
America facing vaccine passport ‘mess’, experts warn
‘I think it’s going to be a tidal wave that’s going to be very difficult to stop’
- The Independent
Ted Cruz refuses to wear mask at Capitol: ‘Virtually everyone is vaccinated’
CDC recommends vaccinated people continue wearing ‘a mask’
- The Independent
Justin Trudeau claims UK is facing ‘very serious’ third Covid wave amid Canada’s slow vaccine rollout
Downing Street says UK’s case data ‘speaks for itself’ as infections continue to fall
- BBC
France urges citizens to leave Pakistan amid anti-French protests
An email from the French embassy warns of "serious threats" after anti-blasphemy protests.
- Time
QAnon Candidates Are Winning Local Elections. Can They Be Stopped?
Since Trump’s defeat, the QAnon movement has quietly entered a different, and arguably more dangerous, phase
- The Independent
Teen with AK47 arrested in New York subway station
18-year-old man from Ohio with assault rifle and wearing gas mask taken into custody
- The Telegraph
Danish far-Right condemned for poster campaign telling refugees to 'go home to sunny Syria’
Danish anti-immigration activists are being sharply criticised after they put up mock travel adverts in Copenhagen telling Syrian refugees the "good news" that they can "now return to sunny Syria". The poster campaign, by the Danish wing of the far-Right Generation Identity group, came after Denmark became the first country in Europe to rule it safe for refugees to return to Syria, despite the human rights violations of the brutal Assad regime. Michala Bendixen from the rights group Refugees Welcome Denmark called the group's posters "cynical and prejudiced", adding that they exemplified a trend of immigrant-bashing in Denmark she witnessed "every day" on social media. "[You see] Danes accusing all refugees, particularly Muslims, of being criminals, lazy, extremists, exploiting our welfare state and lying about everything," she said. "Even politicians do this." The ruling centre-Left Social Democrats have adopted the hard line on immigration and asylum set by their right-wing predecessors in the hope of keeping voters they won back from the populist Danish People's Party in the 2019 general election. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has promised to aim for "zero" asylum seekers. In 2020, the Danish Immigration Service decided to revoke or withdraw residency permits from 94 Syrians from the Damascus or Rif Damascus regions, which it deemed "safe", although some of these decisions have already been overturned by the Refugee Appeals Board. As of April 9, the Board is considering 148 Syrian cases, with 20 of the immigration service's decisions so far upheld. Generation Identity, or Generation Identitaer, is the Danish wing of the far-Right Generation Identity group, which was banned in France last month for inciting people to "discrimination, hatred and violence."
- The Independent
FedEx shooting: Everything we know so far about incident at Indianapolis warehouse
Parcel firm ‘shocked and saddened’ after shooting spree at facility, with police investigating
- The Independent
Not many people are buying Hunter Biden’s new book
President’s son was interviewed on ABC, CBS, and BBC during a publicity tour for the memoir
- Reuters
Global officials urge rich countries to donate excess COVID-19 vaccines, money to help end pandemic
Top U.N., financial and vaccine officials on Thursday urged rich countries to donate excess COVID-19 vaccine doses to a program supplying lower income countries in a bid to end the pandemic and get the global economy back on track. At an event organised by the Gavi Vaccine Alliance to boost support for the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative, the officials appealed for another $2 billion by June for the programme, which aims to buy up to 1.8 billion doses in 2021. COVAX has shipped more than 38 million vaccine doses to 111 countries in seven weeks, most of them AstraZeneca's shot.
- The Independent
Officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting lands book deal
Post Hill Press to publish book by Sgt Jonathan Mattingly rejected by Simon & Schuster