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Gavin Stephens says rows over asylum seekers have raised community tensions and put pressure on officers
Politicians should work to “reduce and defuse tensions” instead of stoking division, a senior chief constable has said.
Gavin Stephens, who chairs the National Police Chiefs’ Council, was speaking after weeks of demonstrations against asylum seekers being housed in hotels, and counter-protests by those who fear the issue is mobilising the far right and demonising vulnerable people.
The huge military parade through Beijing on Wednesday was a deliberately fearsome display of weaponry designed to send a message that Xi Jinping’s vision of a new world order with China at the apex will be backed up with high-tech arms that would seem, in many cases, to be ahead of Beijing’s rivals.
Philippe Lazzarini says Unrwa has been ‘sounding alarm bells for months’ over famine and violence in Gaza but law has been ‘blatantly disregarded’
Europe and the west’s double standards over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza threaten to undermine its global standing, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has warned, describing the response to Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory as one of the darkest episodes of international relations in the 21st century.
In an interview with the Guardian before talks with UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, in London on Wednesday, the socialist leader also said the US under Donald Trump was trying to end the post-second world war, rules-based global order it had originally created.
It is a failure. Absolutely. It is also the reality that, within the European Union, there are countries that are divided when it comes to how to influence Israel. But in my opinion, it’s not acceptable and we can’t last longer if we want to increase our credibility when it comes to other crises, such as the one we face in Ukraine.
The roots of these wars are completely different but, at the end of the day, the world is looking at the EU and also at western society and asking: ‘Why are you doing double standards when it comes to Ukraine and when it comes to Gaza?’
What we’re now witnessing in Gaza is perhaps one of the darkest episodes of international relations in the 21st century, and in this regard what I have to say is that Spain has been very vocal within the EU and also within the international community. Within the EU, what we have done so far is advocate to suspend the strategic partnership that the EU has with Israel.
Disused Paddington lawn bowls club to be passed to Aboriginal land council as high court decision set to ripple across numerous crown land leases
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An Aboriginal land council will take control of an inner city bowling club abandoned a decade ago after a narrowly won high court battle.
Lawn bowls last rolled down the greens of the Paddington Bowling Club in 2015 but the crown land site’s future had been in limbo until Wednesday after state and local land councils took their fight to the high court.