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2025-01-14 10:52
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Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he hadn’t won the presidential election in November: that’s the finding of Jack Smith, the special counsel who investigated him.
The report was released by the justice department today and details Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy.
The special counsel said: “But for Mr Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”
Details of a plan to end the war in Gaza could be finalised today, as negotiators meet in Doha and President Joe Biden indicated a ceasefire and hostage release deal was imminent.
Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of an agreement on Monday, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters, after a midnight “breakthrough” in talks attended by envoys of both Biden and president-elect Donald Trump.
A Palestinian source close to the talks told Reuters he expected the deal to be finalised on Tuesday if “all goes well.” On Monday night, Trump described a possible ceasefire as being “very close.”
Firefighters battling the disastrous wildfires around Los Angeles were prepared for a return of dangerous winds that could again stoke the flames as the death toll hit at least 24.
Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has accused the tech billionaire Elon Musk of “encouraging looting” in an escalation of a row over disinformation surrounding the deadly LA fires.
The California governor lashed out after Musk, who is Trump’s wealthiest supporter, reposted a message on X – the social media platform he bought – that falsely accused the governor and his fellow Democrats of decriminalizing looting.
“Stop encouraging looting by lying and telling people it’s decriminalized. It’s not,” Newsom wrote. “It’s illegal – as it always has been.”
More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates have urged “moonshot” efforts to escalate food production to avert a world hunger catastrophe. The coalition called for “planet-friendly” leaps in food production to feed 9.7 billion people by 2050.
Tokyo remains, in the world’s imagination, a place of sophistication and wealth. But with economic revival forever distant, “tourism pollution” seems the only viable plan, writes Dylan Levi King.
Donald Trump’s desire to seize control of Greenland and the Panama canal is shaped in part by the climate crisis he denies. Rare minerals in Greenland are being uncovered as the ice rapidly retreats. Meanwhile, severe drought in Panama has threatened water supplies and limited traffic through the crucial shipping route.
The ham-and-pineapple Hawaiian pizza is divisive. The kitchen at Lupa pizza in Norwich, England, hates it so much they’ve grudgingly added it to the menu – for £100 ($122). “Pineapple on pizza?” the head chef said. “I’d rather put a bloody strawberry on one than that tropical menace.”
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