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Brooklyn Activist Charged With Arson in Torching of 10 NYPD Vehicles

Jakhi McCray, 21, faces federal arson charges in connection with the burning of police vehicles in a parking lot last month.

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Jakhi McCray has been accused of setting 10 police vehicles on fire after sneaking into a private parking lot in Brooklyn.
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2 Dead and 1 Missing After Plunging From Oregon Waterfall, Officials Say

Three other people were rescued on Saturday when a group of people strayed into an unsafe section of the Deschutes River near Bend, Ore., the authorities said.

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Search and rescue teams on the Deschutes River about 10 miles from Bend, Ore., after a fatal waterfall accident over the weekend.
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Trump ‘caught off guard’ by Israeli strikes on Syria last week

The White House confirmed that Trump called Netanyahu to ‘rectify’ the situation after ongoing clashes in the city of Sweida

Donald Trump was “caught off guard” by Israeli strikes on Syria last week, the White House has said, adding that the US president called Benjamin Netanyahu to “rectify” the situation.

Israel launched strikes on the capital Damascus and the southern Druze-majority city of Sweida last week, saying it aimed to put pressure on the Syrian government to withdraw its troops from the region amid ongoing clashes there.

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© Photograph: Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images

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South Australian premier declares algal bloom catastrophe a ‘natural disaster’ in defiance of federal Labor

Peter Malinauskas says politicians do themselves a disservice ‘when they get caught up in technicalities’

The South Australian premier has said the state’s algal bloom catastrophe, which has caused mass deaths among hundreds of marine species, should be described as a natural disaster despite the Albanese government declining to do so a day earlier.

Speaking to the ABC’s News Breakfast program, Peter Malinauskas warned “politicians can do themselves a disservice when they get caught up in technicalities”.

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Ukraine war briefing: International protest over arrests at anti-corruption agency

Transparency International condemns ‘massive’ pressure on NABU while G7 ambassadors express ‘serious concerns’. What we know on day 1,245

Ukrainian security services arrested officials from the country’s main anti-corruption agency, the NABU, on Monday and conducted dozens of searches in a crackdown that the agency said went too far and had effectively shut down its entire mission. The SBU said it had arrested one of the officials as a suspected Russian spy and others for alleged ties to a banned party. But NABU, which has embarrassed senior government officials with corruption allegations, said the “vast majority” of cases involved unrelated allegations such as years-old traffic accidents.

Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International said the searches conducted without court orders showed that authorities were exerting “massive pressure” on Ukraine’s corruption fighters. Ambassadors of G7 nations in Kyiv issued a statement saying they had “serious concerns and intend to discuss these developments with government leaders”. Anti-corruption campaigners have been alarmed since Vitaliy Shabunin, a top anti-corruption activist, was charged earlier this month with fraud and evading military service. Volodymy Zelenskyy’s office denies that prosecutions in Ukraine are politically motivated.

Russia and Ukraine will hold new peace talks on Wednesday in Istanbul, said Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president. It is a follow-up to two earlier rounds that made little progress on ending their war. Zelenskyy has offered to hold direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

Russia has broadcast footage from inside a plant assembling the deadly attack drones it fires at civilian targets in Ukraine on a daily basis. The video was published on Sunday by Zvezda, a TV channel owned by the Russian defence ministry, showing workers with their faces blurred assembling jet-black triangle-shaped attack drones. “This is the world’s largest factory producing unmanned combat aerial vehicles, and the most secretive one,” said plant director Timur Shagivaleev, who has been sanctioned by the US. The plant is near the town of Yelabuga in the central Russian region of Tatarstan. Russia’s Geran drones are based on Iranian Shahed drones.

The French foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, arrived in Kyiv on Monday for a surprise visit while rescuers were still sifting through the rubble from a massive drone and missile barrage against the Ukrainian capital. Six districts of Kyiv came under attack on Monday, sparking fires at a supermarket, multiple residential buildings and a nursery, authorities said. The entrance to a metro station where civilians were sheltering from the barrage was damaged. “This inhumane, cynical and cruel violence has no military purpose,” Barrot said.

Barrot visited the Chornobyl power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In February, Ukraine accused Russia of using an explosive drone to damage the confinement arch protecting the structure – prompting France to pledge €10m to help fix it. Barrot said Russia “targets energy infrastructure in defiance of international law, security and nuclear safety”.

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