On Tuesday, the government introduced its new laws to try to create a smoke-free generation by setting a steadily rising purchase age so teenagers can never legally buy cigarettes. The new measures, which have been debated in parliament, are seen as a world first – and have attracted a mix of praise for their innovation and concerns about their untested nature. As well as shifting the smoking age, they would dramatically reduce the nicotine in cigarettes and force them to be sold only through specialist tobacco shops rather than corner shops and supermarkets....

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken revealed this week that Washington had offered Russia a deal to repatriate American basketball star Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, a Canadian-born corporate security executive. Reports say arms dealer Viktor Bout could be traded in return. Moscow made limited comments until Friday, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was open to talks with Blinken. The two diplomats later spoke by phone, with Blinken telling reporters he urged his Russian counterpart to go ahead with the proposal....

Comment Police in a Chicago suburb repeatedly punched a vulnerable teenager in the head after fleeing a traffic stop Wednesday, leaving him hospitalized with internal bleeding, a family spokesman said. A bystander video, which has been widely shared on Facebook, begins after the teenager is on the ground and shows two officers punching the teenager’s legs and face at least 10 times. An officer can be seen pressing the teenager’s head into the concrete as he punches him several times in the face....

PC Matthew Tregale, 33, a Devon and Cornwall officer, was remanded in custody charged with 10 offences, including sexual assault, attempted rape, false imprisonment and coercive behaviour. Tregale’s defense team said he would plead not guilty to the alleged offenses, which are said to have taken place between 2005 and 2021. Devon and Cornwall Police said the alleged offenses happened while he was off duty and he was subsequently dismissed from the force....

Pas tendre. De passage ce samedi à Lyon pour apporter son soutien aux policiers, après l’agression de trois de leurs collègues le 20 juillet dernier, Gérald Darmanin s’est montré offensif à l’encontre de Grégory Doucet. «Je ne suis pas là pour faire des procès d’intentions, peut-être que le maire de Lyon est en vacances», a ainsi lancé le ministre de l’Intérieur, après que le maire écologiste a décidé de boycotter sa visite....

Face à la poursuite de la hausse des prix aux Etats-Unis, la banque centrale américaine, la Fed, a annoncé mercredi 27 juillet une nouvelle forte hausse des taux directeurs de 0,75 point. Il s’agit de la quatrième hausse depuis mars : 0,25 point en mars, 0,5 point en mai et 0,75 point en juin. Cette fois, la hausse porte les taux directeurs entre 2,25 et 2,50 %. La réunion du comité de politique monétaire de la Fed, le FOMC, a débuté mardi....

Die Frankfurter Polizei steht erneut auf dem Prüfstand: Fünf Beamte des Polizeipräsidiums wurden nach Ermittlungen vom Dienst suspendiert – darunter auch Vorgesetzte. Die Anzeigen stützen sich auf die Verwendung von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen, die Verhinderung der Strafverfolgung und die Verletzung von Dienstgeheimnissen: Gegen insgesamt fünf Frankfurter Polizeibeamte wurde am Freitag ermittelt. Das gaben die Staatsanwaltschaft Frankfurt und das Hessische Landeskriminalamt in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung bekannt. „Besonders gravierend ist, dass nach derzeitigem Kenntnisstand Vorgesetzte beteiligt sind und ihrer besonderen Verantwortung nicht nachgekommen sind, sondern ihre Pflicht zur Verschleierung oder Vertuschung von Fehlverhalten missbraucht haben“, sagte der neue Frankfurter Polizeipräsident Stefan Müller am Freitag....

The attack was reported by Mikhail Razvozhayev, head of the local Russian administration in Sevastopol, Crimea, which was captured and then annexed in 2014. “Early this morning, [Ukraine] decided to spoil Navy Day for us,” he posted. “An unknown object flew into the yard of the fleet headquarters, according to preliminary data, it was a drone. Five people were injured, they are employees of the fleet headquarters, there were no casualties....

Last week Russia’s Justice Ministry ordered the liquidation of the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency, a private charity closely linked to the Israeli government that promotes immigration to Israel. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that the ministry’s request came after the agency, which has several offices in cities across the country, violated Russian law. “There are issues in terms of compliance with Russian law,” Peskov said. “The situation should not be politicized or projected onto the whole of Russian-Israeli relations....

In an intelligence report issued this morning, the ministry said: Their forces have highly likely established a bridgehead south of the Ingulets River, which forms the northern boundary of Russian-occupied Kherson. Ukraine has used its new long range artillery to damage at least three of the bridges across the Dnipro River which Russia relies upon to supply the areas under its control. One of these, the 1000 metre long Antonivskiy bridge near Kherson city, was damaged last week....

Yuri Borisov, who was appointed earlier this month to head the state-controlled space agency Roscosmos, said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia would fulfill its obligations to other partners on the International Space Station before leaving the space station. work. “The decision to abandon the station after 2024 has been made,” Borisov said. Borisov’s statement confirmed earlier statements by Russian space officials about Moscow’s intention to abandon the space station after 2024....

„Dies ist eine weitere Bestätigung, dass Russland ein Terrorstaat ist“, sagte der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj am Freitagabend einer Mitteilung in seinem Telegram-Kanal zu dem Vorfall. Es handle sich um ein „absichtliches Kriegsverbrechen“, für das es „Vergeltung“ geben werde, sagte er später in seiner abendlichen Videobotschaft. „Es gibt ausreichend Beweise, dass dies ein geplantes Verbrechen war.“ Mehr als 50 ukrainische Verteidiger seien auf zynische Weise ermordet worden. Selenskyj sprach von einem „Terroranschlag, der von russischen unmenschlichen Monstern in Oleniwka“ verübt worden sei....

The first observation is that even though we continue to see Russia fail — fail on the battlefield, pay a high price for very little gain, and suffer from domestic failures at home, I was really struck this week by how the Russian rhetoric was trying to cover up those losses, and what we saw was really very expansive rhetoric coming out of Moscow. Some examples of this — we heard Foreign Minister Lavrov reverse his administration’s previous denials that they are seeking regime change in Kyiv and — and he talked this week about getting rid of the regime in Kyiv....

Taxi statt Krankenwagen Zurück im Asylzentrum spricht Kurdos gegen 23 Uhr erneut einen Vorgesetzten und den Nachtwächter an. Beide Männer sind weder Krankenschwestern noch sprechen sie Türkisch. Durch seine Gesten würden sie verstehen, dass er Bauchschmerzen habe, würden die beiden später in einem polizeilichen Verhör aussagen. Der Aufseher sagt: “Es war schwer zu begreifen, wie groß sein Schmerz war.” Klar war jedoch: Sezhgin Dag musste ins Krankenhaus. Sie riefen keinen Krankenwagen, sondern setzten ihn gegen 23:10 Uhr allein in ein Taxi....

Spain and Brazil reported one death from monkeypox in what are believed to be the first deaths linked to an outbreak of the disease that began in early May. Spain is one of the worst-hit countries in the world, with 4,298 cases of the virus, according to the health ministry’s emergency and alert coordination center. “Of the 3,750 (monkeypox) patients with available information, 120 cases were hospitalized (3.2 percent) and one case died,” the center said in a report Friday....

44% gegen Quarantäne, 39% dafür – Bevölkerungsüberprüfung Wien (OTS) – Die Regierung hat sich nicht nur gegen den Rat von Experten bezüglich der Beseitigung der Ausscheidungen des Coronavirus entschieden, sondern auch gegen die relative Mehrheit der Bevölkerung. ÖSTERREICH fragte die Firma Lazarsfeld (1.000 Befragte vom 25. bis 27. Juli, Schwankungsbreite +-3,16 %), ob die Quarantäne für Corona-Infizierte aufgehoben werden solle oder nicht. Ergebnis: 44 % sagen nein – nur 39 % ja....

The 7-magnitude quake was centered in the hard-hit mountainous province of Ambra, said Renato Solidum, head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. “The ground shook like I was in a cradle and the lights suddenly went out. We rushed out of the office and I heard screaming and some of my colleagues were in tears,” said Michael Brillantes, a security officer in Abra’s Lagangilang town, near the epicenter....

Sylvester Stallone spent the first two years of the pandemic creating a new, much more serious version of Rocky IV, but has since been very vocal about his frustration with Rocky series producer Irwin Winkler, who continued to control the rights the Creed movies and spin-offs, completely excluding Stallone (on top of the money he’s already made working on the movies). Earlier this month, Stallone posted a (since deleted) Instagram plea to Irwin to give him “at least a little bit” of “what’s left” of the Rocky rights so he can “leave something of Rocky » to his children....

The House of Representatives voted to ban assault weapons Friday night, with lawmakers narrowly approving the bill by a 217-213 vote. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The Capitol is seen under clouds in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) The legislation will now head to the Senate, where it is unlikely to break the filibuster. Two Republicans, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn....

The Oak Lawn Police Department said the boy, who they did not identify, was armed with a semiautomatic weapon during the incident Wednesday afternoon and ran from officers who had made a traffic stop. “The subject refused to listen to verbal commands, which led to a physical confrontation with two officers,” the department said in a statement. The beating, set against the backdrop of the McDonald’s arches, was captured on a minutes-long video by a bystander who could be heard saying: “Why are they beating him like this?...