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Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters  —  The co-founder of a pro-Palestinian campaign group on Wednesday won her bid to bring a legal challenge against the British government’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws. Huda Ammori, who helped found Palestine Action in 2020, asked London’s High Court to give the go-ahead for a full challenge to the group’s proscription, which was made on the grounds it committed or participated in acts of terrorism. Earlier this month, the High Court refused Ammori’s application to pause the ban and, following an unsuccessful last-ditch appeal, Palestine Action’s proscription came into effect just…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Mourners gathered in Manhattan’s Bryant Park Tuesday evening to honor the four people killed in a shooting in a Midtown skyscraper, as investigators work to understand exactly how and why the shooter carried out the attack. Twenty-seven-year-old Shane Devon Tamura walked into 345 Park Avenue on Monday evening carrying an M4 assault-style rifle and opened fire, police said, killing four people and injuring another before he died by suicide. The attack is now the deadliest event recorded in New York City since at least 2013, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. The victims included…

Chilean authorities said evacuations are underway along parts of the country’s coast due to the threat of a tsunami after the large earthquake off Russia’s far eastern coast overnight. In social media posts on Wednesday, Chile’s national disaster response agency SENAPRED said evacuations had begun along the coasts of seven regions in northern Chile: Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, and O’Higgins. Videos from social media geolocated by CNN show shrill sirens echoing among the port city of Iquique’s waterfront high-rises. After each round of sirens, an automated voice says “emergency” in Spanish. On Easter Island, residents were…

Facebook Tweet Email Link London  —  Outgoing flights from United Kingdom airports were disrupted by air traffic control technical problems on Wednesday, according to several airports. Airports across Britain – including Edinburgh Airport in Scotland, Newcastle Airport in north England, and Gatwick Airport in London – posted to X that flights from their transport hubs were suspended. More airports posted that flights were delayed. Inbound flights were still able to land, London’s Gatwick Airport said. Monitoring site Flightradar24 showed that no flights were taking off from UK airports at one point, though planes were later seen departing from several hubs.…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into many different specialized cell types – to form laboratory-grown structures that resemble human embryos. These embryo models are far from perfect replicas. But as labs compete to grow the best likeness, the structures are becoming increasingly complex, looking and behaving in some way as embryos would. The structures could further the study of human development and the causes infertility. However, the dizzying pace of…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Arab and Muslim states including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have for the first time issued a joint call for Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in the Gaza Strip as part of efforts to end the war in the territory. The 22-member Arab League, the entire European Union and another 17 countries backed a declaration signed at a United Nations conference co-hosted by Saudi Arabia and France on Tuesday. The meeting in New York aimed to address “the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine and the implementation of the Two-State Solution,” and the declaration…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Late July is usually a time of great optimism and excitement for the NFL. Training camps are underway, preseason games are set to offer chances for rookies to shine and the highly anticipated regular season is a little more than a month away. Monday’s shooting at the New York City building that houses the league’s offices has shaken that anticipation, as the country’s most popular sport has been affected by a uniquely American problem – gun violence. At the same time, the league has had one of its most sensitive matters – the issue of brain…

Facebook Tweet Email Link EDITOR’S NOTE:  Samson Inocencio Jr. is national director for International Justice Mission (IJM) in the Philippines and the regional Vice President of IJM’s OSEC Hub, working against the online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC). The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. On this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, I find myself holding two truths in tension: deep despair and profound hope. After more than two decades fighting human trafficking in the Philippines, I have witnessed both the unthinkable harm inflicted on children `– and the extraordinary progress made to stop…

Facebook Tweet Email Link EDITOR’S NOTE:  This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts. Former NFL star Shannon Sharpe, who has been one of the faces of ESPN’s morning sports debate show “First Take,” is no longer with the network, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. The breakup between the podcast star and the media outlet comes less than two weeks after Sharpe reached a settlement with an anonymous woman who filed a lawsuit against the famed tight end, accusing him of multiple instances of assault, sexual assault, battery and sexual battery. Sharpe’s attorney did not have…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington  —  Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday and is accused by the Department of Justice of being a part of a high-stakes illegal gambling ring that ran out of one of his California homes. Arenas, 43, is facing a federal indictment on a count of conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business, one count of operating an illegal gambling business and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. According to the Justice Department, Arenas rented out an Encino, California, mansion to host illegal poker games. If convicted, Arenas faces up to…