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The body of a 5-year-old girl who was swept into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast has been recovered ... ending a desperate search that captivated the area for nearly two days. Authorities
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Real Madrid appointed Jose Mourinho as their coach on Thursday on a three-year deal, with the Portuguese veteran making a sensational return to the Spanish capital after 13 years away. The 63-year-old replaces Alvaro Arbeloa after Madrid finished a second consecutive season without a major trophy, falling behind domestic rivals Barcelona. '(Real Madrid have) agreed to appoint Jose Mourinho as the first team's head coach for the next three seasons, until June 30, 2029,' said the 15-time European champions in a statement. 'Jose Mourinho will join Real Madrid on July 13, the day preseason begins.' One of football's most successful yet divisive managers, Mourinho arrives from Benfica, where the Lisbon club completed an unbeaten league campaign but finished third. Benfica said Wednesday Real Madrid were paying 15mn euros ($17.25m) for the Portuguese coach.Mourinho managed Madrid between 2010 and 2013, winning La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup during an intense period of rivalry with Pep Guardiola's golden era Barcelona side. Real Madrid became the first club to reach 100 points in a La Liga season under Mourinho in the 2011-12 campaign, although Barcelona did the same in the subsequent season before Mourinho departed.Mourinho divided the Real Madrid dressing room, with some players - including predecessor Arbeloa - fiercely loyal to him, while others were at loggerheads with the coach. Known to rule with an iron fist, Mourinho is charged with bringing Real Madrid's dressing room egos in check, after multiple conflicts and problems marked a troubled season. Madrid midfielder Fede Valverde was treated in hospital after a row with team-mate Aurelien Tchouameni in May, among other flashpoints. Coaches Carlo Ancelotti, Xabi Alonso and Arbeloa also could not find a way to successfully deploy star players Vinicius Junior, Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham together without destabilising the balance of the team.In an appearance on Spanish television earlier in May, Madrid president Florentino Perez credited Mourinho with laying the groundwork for Real Madrid's last six Champions League titles, achieved in the years after the Portuguese departed. The chief said he would bring back Mourinho if he was reelected president earlier in June, which he was. Mourinho's return to Madrid also signifies a jump back to the European elite after several years away from the game's peak. The coach burst into the limelight as he won the Champions League with Porto in 2004, before helping Chelsea claim back-to-back Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006. Mourinho labelled himself a 'special one' as his team dominated the English top flight, before guiding Inter Milan to Champions League glory in 2010 as part of a unique treble for an Italian side. Madrid chief Perez appointed him to try and stop Guardiola's powerful Barca team, which he achieved to an extent, in a fractious spell which also disrupted the harmony in the Spanish national team.Mourinho returned to Chelsea, winning the Premier League in 2015, before modest spells at Manchester United, Tottenham and Roma among other clubs. He won the EFL Cup and Europa League with Manchester United in 2017 and since then has only lifted the Conference League trophy with Roma in 2022. The coach was sacked by Turkish side Fenerbahce in August 2025 after failing to guide them past Benfica in a Champions League qualification play-off, before he was appointed by the Portuguese side the following month.
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In a coordinated and advanced collective move that reflects the international community’s mounting impatience with Israel’s unlawful practices in the occupied Palestinian territories, international condemnations of settler violence in the West Bank have evolved from mere words and mottos into a unified Western front aimed at tightening the screws on the networks that fuel such violence. Six major Western nations, namely the UK, Canada, France, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand, have wielded the sword of sanctions against the financing and support networks that enable attacks against Palestinian civilians. This collective move not only stripped extremist settlers of the political cover that had allowed them to carry out alarming levels of daily abuse with impunity but also placed the Israeli government directly under intensified international scrutiny and accountability. In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the six countries urged the occupation government to take immediate steps to ensure genuine accountability for violence in the West Bank, while warning that their governments stand ready to take further measures should Israel fail to take urgent action to address the situation on the ground. Addressing the British Parliament on Tuesday, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the sanctions package was intended to disrupt the flow of funding that “has allowed extremist settler groups to operate in the West Bank with impunity”, while calling on British companies to cease all activities in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Violent settler groups shouldn’t benefit from land seized from Palestinians, Cooper underlined, arguing that Israeli government condemnations of some of these attacks appear hollow in the absence of concrete measures to punish those responsible. France announced a ban on far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering French territory, arguing that he promotes efforts to annex the West Bank and advocates the establishment of new settlements there. It also announced entry bans on four leaders of settlement organizations and 21 violent settlers, while reaffirming the overwhelming majority of the international community’s steadfast commitment to the two-state solution. Flagrant violationIn May, in another consequential move, four major European powers -France, Germany, the UK, and Italy- issued sharp criticism of Israeli plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and called on Israel to halt such policies, describing them as a flagrant violation of international law. The four countries, which represent Europe’s largest economies, underscored the need to end settlement expansion and reduce Israeli administrative powers in the occupied territories, declaring in unequivocal terms that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are “illegal” under international law. Their joint statement addressed an Israeli project to construct approximately 3,400 settlement units in the E1 area, warning that the project constitutes a serious breach of international law and could effectively divide the West Bank into two parts, thereby complicating and obstructing the establishment of a geographically contiguous Palestinian state. In an immediate response, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry welcomed the six Western countries’ decision to impose a new package of sanctions on entities and individuals involved in financing, supporting, and carrying out settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The ministry stressed that the sanctions represent an important step in the right direction and are in sync with the principles, values, and legal commitments these countries have adopted under international agreements. It further argued that the measures acknowledge the reality that colonial settlement activity in all its forms is illegal and poses a direct threat to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. The ministry called on the international community to build on these measures by imposing additional deterrent sanctions on the entire settlement enterprise, affirming the responsibility of the occupation government for settler crimes, prohibiting trade in products originating from illegal settlements, implementing the principle of universal jurisdiction, and taking practical measures to protect the Palestinian people. Offering his take on the European position, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Qatar University, Dr Abdullah Bandar al-Otaibi, said the coordinated Western sanctions against networks financing settler violence reflect an important evolution in the Western approach. He told Qatar News Agency (QNA) that the significance of the move lies not in a complete departure from traditional Western support for Israel, but rather in a growing recognition that continued settler violence now imperils what remains of the legitimacy of the international rules-based order. Dr al-Otaibi added that these sanctions combine two dimensions: the first is an effort to contain mounting domestic and international pressure, while the second is to relay a political message to Israel that certain policies in the West Bank have become a liability even for its closest allies. Addressing the possibility of these sanctions succeeding in drying up the sources of support for settlement activity, Dr al-Otaibi shared that the shift from targeting individuals to targeting financing and facilitation networks represents a more consequential and impactful development. He noted that settler violence doesn’t rely solely on extremist individuals, but rather on interconnected operational frameworks comprising funding channels, donations, institutions, and organisations that provide resources, logistical support, and legal assistance. When sanctions target these networks, he argued, they impose asset freezes, restrict financial transfers, and prohibit dealings with affiliated banking institutions and companies. Al-Otaibi underscored those Western nations, particularly the US, the UK, and the EU, wield highly influential tools due to the dominance of their financial systems over a substantial share of international financial flows. Therefore, the effectiveness of these sanctions lies not only in drying up direct funding streams, but also in raising the cost of engagement with these networks and making global financial institutions more cautious about associating with them, al-Otaibi explained. Concrete measuresAl-Otaibi went on to suggest that what distinguishes the latest statement is that it has shifted the dispute from the realm of political criticism to the realm of threats involving concrete measures. Should settler violence continue unabated or expand further, it is possible that sanctions could evolve from targeting networks and individuals to targeting political figures or officials directly linked to supporting such activities, al-Otaibi underscored. He stressed that although imposing broad sanctions on Israeli ministers remains a major political step, it is no longer as inconceivable as it once was, particularly if public and human rights pressure continues to gain momentum across Western countries. Regarding the possibility of broader international oversight of settlement activity and developments in the West Bank, al-Otaibi said that it remains premature to speak of direct international trusteeship or oversight of the West Bank. However, he stressed, what is currently unfolding may represent the beginning of a trajectory toward greater internationalization of the settlement issue. Coordinated sanctions, al-Otaibi added, create a political and legal precedent that allows Western countries to intervene more broadly in scrutinising activities linked to settlement expansion and its financing. He suggested that the limits of this trajectory nevertheless remain tied to the position of the US as Washington continues to wield the greatest leverage over Israel and over the international institutions capable of imposing binding measures. Shockingly, since the beginning of 2026, at least 13 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more wounded in the West Bank as a result of attacks carried out by settlers. These attacks have persisted at a relentless pace, with hundreds of assaults targeting Palestinian civilians and their property, forcing hundreds of Palestinians to flee their Bedouin and pastoral communities. Official statistics released in January showed a 25% increase in crimes committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank during 2025. Since the outbreak of Israel’s war of annihilation in the Gaza Strip on Oct 7, 2023, the Israeli army and settler militias in the West Bank have killed at least 1,106 Palestinians, wounded nearly 11,000 others, and detained more than 21,000. Approximately 750,000 Israeli settlers reside in hundreds of settlements across the West Bank and carry out daily rampages against Palestinian residents with the aim of forcibly displacing them.
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British PM Keir Starmer has a new defence minister, but the same problem: no spare money, competing political and financial demands and a party reluctant to cut spending on public services and welfare. And if Britain gets a new prime minister, those problems are not going away. Starmer is likely to face a challenge to his leadership in the coming months, most likely from Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham if he wins a seatin parliament at a special election next week, and Wes Streeting, who resigned as health secretary last month. But while Starmer has been criticised as indecisive, whoever leads Britain will face the same difficult trade-offs - finding money for public services,helping voters cope with the rising cost of living, and increasing defence spending - in an era of low growth and rising government borrowing costs. Chris Hopkins, director of pollster Savanta, said a new leader could appear more decisive and present a better vision for government than Starmer but would face the same larger challenges. “The task of governing effectively, retaining popular support and staving off electoral challengers could well be a needle that is impossible for any new prime minister to thread,” he said. Defence Secretary John Healey resigned on Thursday with a damning indictment of Starmer’s leadership: that while he clearly recognised the threats facing the country, he was unable to secure the money that was needed to address them. The shock resignation of one of Starmer’s most loyal ministers came after the prime minister took months mulling how to fund a defence investment plan (DIP) before ultimately settling on a figure that Healey said was unacceptable. Healey said that, under the plan he had seen, defence spending wouldonly rise to 2.68% of GDP in 2030 when he believed it needed to be at 3%. In comparison, Germany plans to spend 3.7% of its GDP on defence by 2030. Starmer has responded that other government departments are having money reallocated to defence, while he believes that “irresponsible borrowing” would increase risks to Britain. “Whoever is prime minister is going to face the same prevailing winds as I am facing,” Starmer told the BBC on Friday after meeting Dan Jarvis, a former paratroop officer who replaced Healey. “None of that is going to change.” But Starmer’s argument left some Labour politicians unimpressed. Fred Thomas, a Labour lawmaker and former Royal Marine who is on parliament’s defence committee and last month called for Starmer to resign, said Britain needed a leader with “conviction, confidence and courage”. “If you really want something to happen, and you’ve got the responsibility of running the country, then ultimately you can make that thing happen,” he told Reuters, saying Britain’s military was “simply not ready” for the threats it faced. The decision to quit by Healey, who was widely respected within government and the defence industry, is onein a series of damaging departures from the government which have highlighted concerns about Starmer’s record. Former health minister Streeting said “where we need direction, we havedrift” when he quit, while the former safeguarding minister JessPhillips described Starmer’s style as the “definition of incremental change. Nothing bold about it”. The departure of Healey, and the armed forces minister Al Carns, means Starmer will go to key G7 and Nato summits in the coming weeks with criticism over his defence strategy ringing out, all while Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist Reform UK party maintains a comfortable lead in opinion polls. But while Starmer may have his critics, any potential successor would struggle with the same trade-offs. Already financial markets have sounded the alarm over Burnham, with borrowing costs spiking when he has made moves which bring him closer to a return to Westminster, something that would trigger yet more turbulence in Britain’s politics and potentially a seventh prime minister in 10 years.
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