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The deputy leader of a Welsh council has stepped down after saying during a meeting that all Tories should be shot.Ieuan Williams, an independent councillor in Anglesey, north Wales, has apologised since making the comment on Monday morning and referred himself to the council's standards committee.Conservative politicians have reacted angrily to his remark, including Anglesey MP Virginia Crosbie, who called it appalling and said she already wears a stab vest to surgeries.

The plan was for a morning of low-key door knocking for the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, and Michael Shanks, the party's candidate for the anticipated byelection in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, the seat held by the former Scottish National party MP and Covid rule-breaker Margaret Ferrier.But as the media descended, looking for Sarwar's reaction to the arrest of the former first minister Nicola Sturgeon in Police Scotland's investigation into the finances of the party she previously led, it was clear that the significance of this seat in the political landscape had again been heightened: once more the SNP was in turmoil and Scottish Labour primed to seize the momentum.

Ukraine has dropped its request for British fighter jets to help in its war against Russia, with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president, making it clear during a visit to the UK that he was focusing on American F-16s instead.Zelenskiy held talks with Rishi Sunak on Monday morning at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat.

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A Moreno Valley man was arrested Monday on suspicion of imprisoning and torturing two women inside his home, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.Authorities were first contacted at 9:22 a.m.Sunday after a caller told dispatchers two women had burglarized his home in the 26000 block of Prairie Dog Lane.

An air deployment exercise billed as the biggest in NATO's history and hosted by Germany got underway on Monday.The Air Defender 2023 exercise that is set to run through June 23 was long-planned but serves to showcase the alliance's capabilities amid high tensions with Russia.The first planes took off on Monday morning from airfields in northern Germany.

Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec is looking internationally for support as it struggles to battle more than 160 forest fires during what federal officials say is shaping up to be among the country's worst fire seasons ever.With more than 480 wilderness firefighters on the ground, Quebec can fight around 30 fires, Francois Legault told reporters Monday, adding that normally firefighters would come from other provinces to help.

Guardian News & Media, the publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers, has apologized to at least one woman for its handling of her complaint that one of its star columnists, Nick Cohen, groped her in the newsroom.The company also told staff members that it was changing how it investigates sexual harassment complaints.

Forensic scientists are beginning efforts to exhume the remains of 128 people from the huge basilica outside Madrid where 34,000 dead from both sides of the Spanish civil war were buried, and where the body of Gen Francisco Franco also lay for almost half a century.The exhumations at the Valley of Cuelgamuros known until last year as the Valley of the Fallen come after the families of some of those interred there spent almost two decades fighting for their loved ones to receive a dignified burial.

Nicola Sturgeon should consider voluntarily suspending her Scottish National party membership until the police investigation into its finances is over, a former leadership candidate has said.Ash Regan, a former minister who came third in the race to succeed Sturgeon as SNP leader, said there was a clear precedent for parliamentarians to stand down as party members if they were under police investigation.

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Firefighters quickly snubbed out an all-hands fire at an East Flatbush deli on Wednesday morning.Units arrived at 5004 Avenue D to smoke billowing from the basement of United Deli just before 5 a.m.

A coal train, blaring its horn in the dark, was the first to rumble past the Bahanaga Bazar rail station, the site of one of the deadliest train disasters in India's history, as rail lines reopened in both directions after midnight on Monday.The restoration of the important rail route, watched by senior train officials and a crowd of onlookers, was a step toward easing the disruption of the catastrophic crash that killed at least 275 people and injured more than 1,200.

An officer with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the driver of a school bus died after their vehicles collided north of Woodstock, Monday morning.Det.Const.Steven Tourangeau, 35, of the OPP's Huron-Perth Community Street Crime Unit was travelling in an unmarked cruiser when his vehicle and a school bus collided shortly before 7:00 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 59 and Oxford County Road 33 in East Zorra-Tavistock Township, police said.

The Manila Central Post Office, one of the Philippine capital's most historic buildings, was all but destroyed by fire overnight, officials said on Monday morning.The shell of the neo-Classical-style structure, which was built in 1926, was still standing.But Postmaster General Luis Carlos said the building had been completely gutted, from the basement to the ground floor all the way up to the fifth floor.

Fatal house fires in Queens and Brooklyn left two families shattered Sunday night into Monday morning.The Queens blaze killed a one-year-old boy, and the Brooklyn fire killed a 67-year-old woman.Police responding to a call about a home on 106th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, around 11 p.m. on Mother's Day found Jason Eli unconscious and unresponsive on an upper floor, after firefighters had already extinguished the flames, according to the NYPD.

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A homeless woman living at a Brooklyn shelter was criminally charged on June 6 with attempted murder for shoving an 18-year-old high school girl onto the tracks in a Woodhaven subway station on Monday morning.

Ukrainian forces stepped up their artillery strikes and ground assaults in a flurry of offensive military activity that by Monday was raging along multiple sectors of the front line, American and Russian officials said.Ukraine has remained silent about military operations after months of preparing for a major counteroffensive in the war.

Clashes broke out on Monday in Russian villages near the Ukrainian border, according to local officials and verified videos.The Russian regional governor said that a Ukrainian sabotage group had crossed into Russian territory, while Kyiv said that anti-Kremlin Russian partisans were behind the attacks.

As the civil trial over the writer E. Jean Carroll's allegation that former President Donald J. Trump raped her neared its end, one of her lawyers focused on the man who was missing from the courtroom.Mr. Trump did not testify on his own behalf or even show up.He just decided not to be here, the lawyer, Michael J. Ferrara, told the jury on Monday.

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Pride Weekend is underway in West Hollywood - bringing a packed calendar of marches, parades and other events, as well as a number of street closures.Those who live in the city or plan to visit during the weekend should take note of the shutdowns, which started Thursday and will, in some cases, run until Monday morning.

Phillip Schofield has been axed as an ambassador for the Prince's Trust as the charity says it is no longer appropriate to work with him.Schofield, 61, resigned from ITV on Friday and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to an unwise but not illegal affair with a younger male colleague.

Residential mortgage industry analysts and executives continue to see choppy waters ahead.The banking crisis is still unfolding, impacting the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) space, reducing jumbo loan offerings, and putting pressure on commercial real estate companies.Even if the U.S. debt limit impasse is solved, the U.S. can face a downgrade to its long-term debt, with consequences for the overall economy.

NBA legend Carmelo Anthony announced his retirement on Monday morning with a video posted to social media.It probably doesn't come as much of a surprise, since he couldn't catch on with an NBA team last season.Still, it's the end of an incredible ride for Melo, who finished in ninth place in NBA history in scoring.

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill has called on the British and Irish governments to deliver a plan to restore the Stormont powersharing institutions.It came as her party delivered a stunning success in the council elections, becoming the largest party in local government in Northern Ireland for the first time.

Arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage has admitted that leaving the EU has failed as he sought to blame the government for what he described as its inability to take advantage of being outside the trading bloc.The former Brexit and UKIP Party leader, who refused to rule out a political comeback, said the UK had not benefitted from Brexit economically, claiming that government policy had deterred businesses from investing in the UK.

Bayern Munich got some good news on the injury front as Alphonso Davies is back and working out individually at Säbener Straße (per FCBayern.com):There was good news from Säbener Straße on Monday morning as Alphonso Davies started running training for the first time since suffering a hamstring injury away at Mainz at the end of April.

Stellantis says it has stopped construction on an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Windsor, Ont., because the federal government has not delivered on what was promised.The automaker which makes Chrysler, Ram and Fiat cars among others and South Korean battery-maker LG Energy Solution announced the $5-billion plant last year and said it was expected to create 2,500 jobs.

Seven days has to be considered a pattern, right?Ever since the calendar changed over to May, the Kansas City Royals have been on a noticeable uptick offensively while swinging some of the hottest bats in the majors.That trend continued - and more - on Monday night, as the Royals notched a season-high for runs in a 12-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Kauffman Stadium.