CCTV shows inmates escaping New Orleans jail Police have arrested a maintenance worker at the New Orleans jail for helping ten inmates break out of the US facility last week, Louisiana’s attorney general has announced. The worker, identified as 33-year-old Sterling Williams, was arrested on Monday night, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News. … Read more
At least three people have died in floods caused by heavy rainfall and storms which have battered southern France since Monday. The bodies of an elderly couple were found in the seaside resort town of Le Lavandou, while another person died after becoming trapped in a car in Vidauban, local authorities reported on Tuesday. The … Read more
The UK has suspended talks on a trade deal with Israel, summoned the country’s ambassador and imposed fresh sanctions on West Bank settlers, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy described the military escalation in Gaza as “monstrous”. The move follows warnings of starvation in Gaza after Israel launched a new military operation over the weekend. There … Read more
Simon Browning Transport reporter BBC It remains unclear whether UK passport holders will be able to use e-gates at EU airports this summer. The EU Commission has told the BBC that UK citizens will not have access to them until a new scheme to enhance border security comes into force in October, and even then … Read more
The UK government has announced sanctions on Daniella Weiss, a far-right Israeli settler known as the “godmother” of the settler movement. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the move “demonstrates our determination to hold extremist settlers to account as Palestinian communities suffer violence and intimidation”. Weiss, 79, is the leader of a radical settler organisation called … Read more
Billionaire Elon Musk has said he expects to dial back his political donations, a major shift from the figure who shook up the 2024 election as a top donor to President Donald Trump. Musk, who ultimately spent more than $250m (£187m) in support of Trump’s election effort, told an economic conference in Qatar that he … Read more
Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is being charged with assault after a confrontation with officers outside an immigration detention centre. Alina Habba – the interim US attorney for the state and an ally of President Donald Trump – announced the charges in a social media post late on Monday. Habba also said that … Read more
Reuters Joe Biden’s announcement that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer has revived questions about what health issues the former US president was dealing with while he was in the White House. In a statement on Sunday, Biden’s office said the 82 year old had received the diagnosis on Friday after seeing a doctor … Read more
Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent FRENCH PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE The contraband phones are the size of a cigarette lighter French authorities have launched a nationwide hunt for thousands of tiny Chinese-made telephones used by convicts to continue criminal activities from inside prison. The telephones, no bigger than a cigarette-lighter, are almost entirely plastic, and have a reputation … Read more
Getty Images Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the Canary Islands complaining of over-tourism The Spanish government has called for the removal of the listings of nearly 66,000 properties on rental platform Airbnb on the grounds that they breach regulations for tourist accommodation. The clampdown comes as protests against over-tourism have begun ahead … Read more