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Man pleads not guilty to driving into crowd at Liverpool FC victory parade
A 53-year-old British man accused of deliberately driving into a crowd during Liverpool FC’s league title parade in May has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
Paul Doyle, a father of three and former Royal Navy serviceman, faces 31 charges, including intentionally injuring 11 people, attempting to injure 18 others, violence, and dangerous driving. He appeared via videolink from prison at the Liverpool Crown Court.
The incident occurred on May 26, when thousands of Liverpool fans gathered for the championship celebration. Doyle reportedly entered a street that had just reopened to allow an ambulance to pass, according to the investigation.
At the time, Doyle’s car was surrounded by the crowd, with some fans behaving aggressively. He then reversed and accelerated, swerving into pedestrians on both sides of the street, injuring 134 people, according to Merseyside police.
Prosecutor Philip Astbury stated that Doyle “deliberately used his car as a weapon” against the crowd during his initial court appearance.
The trial is provisionally set for November 24 and could last three to four weeks.
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Zelensky meets Trump with European leaders amid peace deal tensions
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attended a meeting with Donald Trump on Monday, supported by several European leaders and hoping to bridge growing differences with the U.S. president over a potential peace agreement with Russia.
Trump has been pressuring Ukraine to make significant concessions following his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week. The U.S. leader stated that Kyiv should give up Crimea and forgo NATO membership, two of Moscow’s main demands.
However, Zelensky, who met with European leaders before heading to the White House, urged Trump to pursue “peace through strength” against Russia and emphasized the need for security guarantees from Washington for Ukraine.
Trump and Zelensky will first meet one-on-one in the Oval Office. The last time they met there, in February, the U.S. president and Vice President JD Vance publicly reprimanded Zelensky in an unusual display.
After his meeting with Zelensky, Trump will hold separate discussions with leaders from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Finland, as well as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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Electoral abstention, the route to which the majority opposition in Venezuela clung again
The majority opposition of Venezuela resumed the route of abstention by deciding not to participate in the regional and legislative elections of last May 25, as it did 20 years ago, when it withdrew from the contest to elect deputies, although this time in a scenario in which it questions the legitimacy of President Nicolás Maduro.
“When the adversary withdraws from the field, from the field, one advances and takes the ground and exercises it,” Maduro said after the votes a week ago, in which only a group of opponents participated who ignored the guideline of the anti-Chavista majority, sheltered by the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), headed by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia.
Maduro brought up what happened in 2005, when, he said, the opposition called for “total abstention.”
“And well,” added the Chavista leader, “they gave us the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) and the National Assembly 2005-2010 was the most fruitful there was.”
20 years ago, Chavismo took the 167 seats of Parliament before the complete withdrawal of the main opposition parties, which expressed distrust in the voting system.
This time, the PUD refused to attend these elections by denouncing fraud in the presidential elections of July last year, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed the victory of the president, of which the disaggregated results have not yet been disseminated. The anti-chavismo insists that the winner was its candidate, González Urrutia.
Machado and González Urrutia see the abstention of May 25 as an “act of dignity”.
The former deputy considered the abstention as a fourth “victory” of the opposition, after the 2023 primaries, of which she described as “crushing” the election of González Urrutia as – she said – “president” in 2024 and of the so-called ‘Operation Guacamaya’, in allusion to the departure from the country this month of five anti-Chavistas who were refugees, since March last year, in the residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas.
Despite the majority call, an opposition group detached itself from the PUD and ran in the May 25 votes, in which it achieved 11 deputies to Parliament compared to 253 of 285 with which the ruling party remained.
In this regard, the political scientist and deputy director of the Gumilla Center, Piero Trepiccione, told EFE that the 2005-2025 scenarios are “very different.”
“At that time, the forces that politically supported those in power in Venezuela had a lot of popular support, they controlled Venezuelan public opinion, they had superior support, even 60%, the polarization environment was much greater, more tense, harder,” he described.
In his opinion, the country was in the process of consolidating the “hyper-leadership” of then-President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) and the opposition “was trying to understand that dynamic, those new power dynamics that emerged in the country from 1999, with the electoral victory of Hugo Chávez”.
“Of course,” said this expert, “that it was a decision that (with) time proved to be a mistake, because it was effectively not possible to obtain a minimum participation that would have been important at that time and that would have served as a tribune for the necessary institutional counterweights.”
And that wasn’t the only time. Anti-Chavism also withdrew from the 2018 presidential elections and the 2020 parliamentary elections, with which the ruling party regained the majority of the House after having lost it in 2015.
For the five-year period 2026-2031, Chavismo ensured, in addition to the parliamentary majority, 23 of 24 governors in the country.
Trepiccione considers that the majority anti-Chavism has, in terms of leadership, a “great reference” in the figure of Machado, but “it has again fallen into a rather serious process of fragmentation and dispersion.”
Therefore, he believes that a process of reorganization, restructuring and reunion is necessary “in terms of recovering positioning in the territory” and taking advantage of “those great expectations that there are in the country”.
“If the opposition manages to articulate forces, realign itself with that desire for change, give political directionality to that desire for change; without a doubt, it can quickly become an important counterweight in the political process that is being lived in the country,” he added.
The political scientist clarifies that the discussion must go beyond an election. “Here the issue is how to unify a strategy, how to build a joint strategy and how not to fall into the provocation of fragmentation,” he reflected.
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Pope Francis donated Popemobile transformed into mobile clinic for Gaza’s children
Before his death, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile medical unit for children in Gaza, officials confirmed on Monday.
The Jerusalem and Sweden branches of Caritas, the Vatican’s charitable federation, released photos of the repurposed vehicle on Monday. However, there is no set date yet for when it will be operational. The donation was announced the same day Israel approved plans to take over the Gaza Strip and remain in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified period.
“When the humanitarian corridor to Gaza reopens, it will be ready to provide primary medical care to children in Gaza,” Caritas Jerusalem said in a statement.
The mobile clinic will be outfitted with diagnostic, examination, and treatment supplies, including testing equipment, suture kits, syringes and needles, oxygen supplies, vaccines, and a medical-grade refrigerator, according to Caritas.
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