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Two environmental activists in their 80s attacked on Friday the casing of the historic Magna Carta document at London’s British Library, causing damage to the glass case but leaving the document unscathed. Anglican priest Sue Parfitt, 82, and retired teacher Judy Bruce, 85, hammered on the glass case then glued themselves to it, the environmental group Just Stop Oil said. They also held a sign which read: “The government is breaking the law.” How did the activists justify the attack? In a statement released by Just Stop Oil, Parfitt said Magna Carta was “rightly revered, being of great importance to…

The Netherlands’ Eurovision entry Joost Klein is under investigation by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) due to an unexplained “incident” – and will not be rehearsing again until “further notice”.The Dutch singer missed his slot in the show’s penultimate dress rehearsal in Malmo, Sweden, on Friday, where he had been due to perform his track Europapa in fifth place ahead of Israel’s Eden Golan with her song Hurricane. It is not yet clear if Klein will be performing in Saturday’s grand final.The EBU said in a statement: “We are currently investigating an incident that was reported to us involving the…

Elyanna does not like to be put in a box. It’s something the Palestinian-Chilean singer has underlined repeatedly in interviews. Yet despite her dislike of labels, she’s currently earning herself one: the young Arab music sensation bringing Arabic-language pop to the global mainstream while challenging perceptions. Ironically, the 22-year-old never planned to sing in Arabic, her native language; she simply tried it out upon suggestion in a recording studio, as she told the Los Angeles Times in 2022. Her decision to embrace the language has paid off: Her first single, “Ana Lahale” (“I’m my own”), released in 2020, has more than 24…

India’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the key leader of an alliance opposed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to be released on bail so that he can campaign in ongoing general elections. Kejriwal has been in pre-trial detention since April 1, having been arrested on March 21 by India’s financial crime investigation agency on corruption allegations. The government-controlled agency accused Kejriwal’s party and ministers of accepting 1 billion rupees ($12 million) in bribes from liquor contractors nearly two years ago.  Accusations of political meddling Modi’s government has denied having lent on the agency, the so-called Enforcement Directorate, to…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday proposed the reappointment of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the parliamentary speaker has said, with a vote due the same day in the Duma on the choice. “President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin submitted to the State Duma a proposal on the candidacy of Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin for the post of Chairman of the Government,” the speaker of the Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on the Telegram messaging app. “Today, deputies will make a responsible decision on behalf of their constituents on this issue,” Volodin said. Approval of the appointment is nearly certain, as there are almost no members of the…

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are set to start a three-day visit to Nigeria on the invitation of the country’s chief of defence staff.Meghan and Harry will arrive in the west African country later today after the duke spent much of the week in London. They are due to visit a school before the duke meets injured service members at a military hospital.The couple will also attend a training session for charity organisation Nigeria: Unconquered – which collaborates with the Invictus Games – as well as a reception where military families will be honoured. Please use Chrome…

Two skiers have been killed during an avalanche in mountains near Salt Lake City.The men, aged 23 and 32, were swept up in the avalanche in Utah’s Wasatch Range on Thursday morning. A third skier was rescued and taken to hospital after digging himself out from the snow, according to Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera.The avalanche followed several days of spring snowstorms in the area. Follow Sky News on WhatsApp Keep up with all the latest news from the UK and around the world by following Sky News Tap here Craig Gordon, from the Utah Avalanche Center, said around…

Military leader Mahamat Deby Itno has been declared the winner of this week’s presidential election in Chad, according to provisional results released Thursday. The outcome of Monday’s vote extends his family’s decades-long grip on power.Chadians go to the polls in hopes of ending military ruleTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Masra feared election would be rigged The ANGE electoral commission said Deby garnered 61.03% of votes, beating his main opponent, Prime Minister Succes Masra, who only managed 18.53%. Soldiers fired shots in the air in the capital N’Djamena out of joy and to deter protesters,…

We are rushing down the beach. In the gloom just before dawn, people are waiting by the seashore, a few hundred metres away.We can see a dinghy out at sea. And then a voice rings out, in Kurdish. “Whose passengers are you?”In the half-light, the people smuggler thinks we are customers here to clamber onto the boat, and wants to know who we had paid.We tell him we’re journalists. “Keep out of the way,” he warns.There are several dozen people gathered together, standing on the shoreline, moving anxiously from side to side. Image: Migrants wait for a dinghy as they…