BBC
Who wouldn't want a house on the beach? For some on Israel's far-right, desirable beachfront now includes the sands of Gaza.
Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel's settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately.
"I have friends in Tel Aviv," she says, "so they say, 'Don't forget to keep for me a plot near the coast in Gaza,' because it's a beautiful, beautiful coast, beautiful golden sand".
She tells them the plots on the coast are already booked.
Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.
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BBC
Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people.
All four appeared to have been beaten and one was brought to court in a wheelchair. They were charged with committing an act of terrorism.
The Islamic State group, or IS, said it carried out Friday's outrage at Crocus City Hall and posted video evidence.
Russian officials have claimed, without evidence, Ukrainian involvement. Kyiv says the claim is "absurd".
In a statement on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the attackers were being helped by Ukraine and Kyiv had "prepared a window" to allow them to cross the border and escape into its territory.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky staunchly rejected the claims.
Al Jazeera
Russia is reeling from its bloodiest attack on civilians in more than a decade after gunmen burst into a music hall on the outskirts of Moscow, opened fire, and detonated explosives, killing at least 137 people.
“I had friends in Crocus, thank the gods they are OK,” Diana, a schoolteacher in St Petersburg, told Al Jazeera, referring to the massacre at Crocus City Hall, just before a concert by the rock group Picnic was to take place on Friday evening.
“[Friday] night was the worst. We were all sat down, constantly updating our news feeds and writing to all the Muscovites we know, just to check if they were OK. And today I was supposed to go to a concert in the largest hall in St Petersburg, it’s good that they postponed it … it’s scary.”
The mood across Russia is gloomy.
Al Jazeera
Senegal’s former Prime Minister Amadou Ba has congratulated rival opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye for winning the presidential election.
Provisional results after Sunday’s vote, showed Faye, with about 53.7% and Ba with 36.2% based on tallies from 90% of polling stations in the first-round vote, the electoral commission said.
On Monday, ruling coalition candidate Ba, called Faye to offer his congratulations, a government spokesman told journalists.
“In light of presidential election result trends and while we await the official proclamation, I congratulate … Faye for his victory in the first round,” Ba said in a statement.
Senegal’s outgoing President Macky Sall also congratulated opposition candidate Faye as his successor on Monday, hailing “a victory for Senegalese democracy.”
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“Remember just ten days ago Faye was in prison. He spent over eleven months in prison for a Facebook post that authorities deemed subversive. Now he went from political prisoner to the next President of Senegal…and he promises sweeping changes to the country,” Haque added.
Deutsche Welle
Almost six months into the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution calling for an "immediate cease-fire" until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
It passed with the votes of 14 Security Council members while the United States abstained, marking a key shift in Washington's stance.
Deutsche Welle
The government of Malawi is seeking urgent assistance following Saturday's declaration by the country's president of a state of disaster caused by drought.
The East African country's Department of Disaster Management Affairs called for the international community to channel contributions towards "alleviating the suffering" of all those who were being impacted by an ongoing drought.
On Saturday, President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera declared a state of disaster because of the ongoing drought in 23 of its 28 districts
McCarthy also made an appeal for "urgent support" as the country grapples with what government said was "El-Nino induced prolonged dry spells and floods."
El Nino is a natural, cyclical climate pattern that tends to cause hotter weather and reduced precipitation and has heightened the risk of food, water and health security in some parts of the world.
Le Monde
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, François Asselineau and Florian Philippot are all in the same boat, but not everyone has been rowing in the same direction. Having climbed aboard it to leave the shores of the European Union, they have picked up opponents to France's Covid-era "vaccine pass" along the way, as well as a few of the Kremlin's mouthpieces in France. The three leaders of minor far-right parties seem to agree on the evils of the European Commission, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Covid-19 vaccination – but they haven't been able to agree on saying it together.
For the June 9 European elections, Asselineau (Union Pour la République, UPR) will run on his own, Philippot (Les Patriotes) has announced a draft list of candidates, and Dupont-Aignan (Debout la France, DLF) has so far remained tight-lipped. Negotiations between the latter two have made good headway, but attempts to win over well-known figures such as former presidential candidate Jean Lassalle and pundit Michel Onfray have failed – Lassalle will instead lead the Alliance Rurale, put together by the head of France's hunting lobby.
The Guardian UK
The Princess of Wales might have hoped her admission about her cancer diagnosis would put an end to the speculation about her.
But the opposite seems to be the case – with experts noting this was entirely predictable, given the durability of online conspiracy theories, and those who propagate them.
Social media posts and websites with the hashtag #kategate, which has been used to flag unsupported theories about the princess, have increased in number since the release of
an official video by Kensington Palace on Friday.
There were 400 mentions of the hashtag on big social media platforms on Sunday, higher than the previous peak of 373 the previous weekend, according to BrandMentions, a company that monitors the spread of hashtags and keywords online. It is most prominent on X, followed by Instagram and TikTok.
The Guardian Australia
A GP opposed to the government’s vaping reforms and whose nicotine prescription website is being assessed by the drugs regulator has given school vaping education sessions and spoken at a student conference without declaring she has received financial support from a tobacco company.
Dr Carolyn Beaumont owns the vaping telehealth service medicalnicotine.com.au, which allows people to obtain a prescription for nicotine vapes in minutes, without speaking directly to a doctor or pharmacist.
The Medical Board of Australia confirmed that this was legal, but said the lack of real-time direct consultation was not good practice.
The Guardian US
A judge in California on Monday dismissed the tech billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a non-profit that has published reports chronicling the rise of racist, antisemitic and extremist content on X, formerly Twitter, since Musk’s acquisition.
The case was dismissed in accordance with the state’s anti-Slapp law, which forbids nuisance lawsuits intended to punish the exercise of free speech.
“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose,” wrote Charles Breyer, the US district judge, in the ruling. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose. This case represents the latter circumstance. This case is about punishing the defendants for their speech.”
CNN
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Two of the three members of Israel’s war cabinet signalled their opposition to government proposals on the recruitment of ultra-Orthodox men into the military, setting up a potential collapse of the government coalition.
The Israeli Supreme Court had given the government until the end of March to explain why there is no legislation regarding the conscription of the ultra-Orthodox, known in Hebrew as Haredim, and why the government continues to fund Haredi religious schools, or yeshivas, while exempting young Haredi men from military service.
An outline of the Israeli government’s plans for reforming the exemption emerged over the weekend, but it appears as though the government will once again attempt to delay that legislation.
USA Today
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of a former Kentucky high school student and supporter of Donald Trump who said he'd been the victim of "cancel culture" after a video of his interaction with an elderly Native American man went viral in 2019.
That decision leaves in place a lower court's dismissal of a massive libel lawsuit filed by Nicholas Sandmann against Gannett, the parent company of USA TODAY, and other media organizations for their coverage of the incident.
Sandmann argued he was defamed by their reports on his confrontation with Native American rights activist Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial in January 2019.
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