Two climate activists stuck a 200-year-old masterpiece in London’s National Gallery on Monday, the latest in a series of disruptive protests by British environmental group Just Stop Oil. The pair covered John Constable’s famous landscape painting “The Hay Wain” with a modified version of the image before gluing their hands to its frame. The demonstration comes just a day after five Just Stop Oil activists disrupted the Formula 1 British Grand Prix by sitting on the Silverstone circuit....

NBA free agency is underway and moving at a rapid pace. As of Thursday afternoon, teams and players could officially begin negotiating new contracts. However, NBA fans didn’t have to wait that long for some major news. A few hours before free agency opened, Kevin Durant requested a trade from the Brooklyn Nets. KD’s request is surprising around the league, and having one of the best players in basketball on the trading block will dictate how many teams work this offseason....

Soldiers are investigating the fatal crash in which the driver, who is suspected of human trafficking, evaded law enforcement and hit a commercial vehicle, according to a tweet from the South Texas District of DPS. The driver was airlifted to a hospital, according to Olivarez. The I-35 is a major north-south route to the central United States for traffic and trade from the southern border. The route is often exploited by smugglers at a time when record numbers of immigrants are being intercepted at the US-Mexico border....

Posté à 7h00 Alice Girard-Bossé La Presse “Les personnes en bonne santé qui ont reçu leur troisième dose sont généralement bien protégées. Ils peuvent se permettre d’attendre un peu », explique Nathalie Grandvaux, chercheuse au Laboratoire de recherche sur la réponse de l’hôte aux infections virales au Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal (CHUM). Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh, professeure à l’École de microbiologie, maladies infectieuses et immunologie de l’Université de Montréal, est d’accord....

Das hat nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die Covid-Statistiken. Das Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) schlägt jetzt Alarm – mehr als 200 Pflegekräfte und 70 Ärzte können wegen Coronavirus-Infektionen nicht eingesetzt werden. Lesen Sie bei BILDplus, was die Folgen sind und wo die Corona-Zahlen noch immer zu Notfällen führen.

“For me, it’s a seventh wave,” said Dr. Luc Boileau. “It’s a wave that takes the form of a wave,” acknowledging that his claim has yet to be confirmed by the Quebec Institute of Public Health (INSPQ). This wave is the first in the province after the lifting of almost all public health restrictions, including mandatory coverage on public transport. The number of COVID-19 patients in Quebec hospitals has increased by more than 50 percent, from 1,007 to 1,534 in the past month....

He said the removal of unnecessary bureaucracy in Brussels would help boost the UK economy and tackle inflation by easing the burden on business and lowering commodity prices. The government has pledged to cut 1 1 billion in EU-related business spending and has launched a website so that the public can watch the repeal of up to 4,418 inherited laws. Its plans are expected to include major breaches of Brussels rules in areas such as banking and insurance, genetically modified crops, data protection and the automotive sector....

Gareth Cattermole/Getty for Adele Adele is taking her return to the stage seriously. The Grammy winner, 34, stopped her show several times to help struggling fans as she took to the stage on Friday as part of her British Summer Time Hyde Park concert series, her first public concert in several years . “Just want to give mad respect to Adele for stopping the show and doing a scene when she thought someone was in trouble and needed help from security....

Das Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut bestätigte den Verdacht: In Niedersachsen gibt es einen ersten Fall der Afrikanischen Schweinepest. Das teilte Landwirtschaftsministerin Barbara Otte-Kinast (CDU) mit. “Das war leider nur eine Frage der Zeit”, sagte der Minister bei einer Sonderpressekonferenz in Hannover. Dies sei ein “schwerer emotionaler Schlag für die Schweinehalter in unserem Land”. Auf dem betroffenen Betrieb in Emsbüren wurden 280 Sauen und rund 1.500 Ferkel gehalten. Alle Tiere werden am Sonntag getötet, um die Ausbreitung der Afrikanischen Schweinepest (ASP) zu verhindern....

POLITIQUE – Une épée dans l’eau ? L’alliance des partis de gauche à l’Assemblée nationale va déposer une motion de censure contre le gouvernement d’Elizabeth Bourne. L’objectif : “Illuminez-les tous”, selon les mots de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, mardi, lors d’une conférence de presse. Insoumi, avec toutes les sensibilités qui composent la NUPES, présentent leur initiative comme une “motion de défiance” au Premier ministre, qui n’a pas prévu de demander la confiance des députés ce mercredi 6 juillet à Bourbon....

The certification opens a five-day window for formal election challenges. Republican Carrie Lake, who lost the governor’s race, is expected to file a lawsuit in the coming days after spending weeks criticizing the election administration. Election results have been largely certified uneventful across the country, but Arizona was an exception. Several Republican-controlled counties delayed their certification despite there being no evidence of vote-counting problems. Cochise County in southeastern Arizona missed the deadline last week, forcing a judge to step in Thursday and order county supervisors to certify the election by the end of the day....

People queued for smallpox vaccines in New York. The Anadolu agency through Getty Images Basic elements The new strategy recommends that anyone with confirmed or suspected exposure to monkey pox be vaccinated, extending previous rules restricting shootings to only people with known exposure. This includes people who have had close physical contact with a person diagnosed with monkey pox, people who know their sexual partner has been diagnosed, and “men who have sex with men who have recently had multiple sexual partners in a place known to be “Monkey pox or in an area where monkey pox is spreading,” said the Ministry of Health and Human Services (HHS)....

The former Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her home in 2019 didn’t see her holding a gun for the split second before he fired at her through the back window, prosecutors said in his opening statements. murder trial on Monday. “This is not a situation where they’re staring down the barrel of a gun and had to defend themselves against that person or protect their partner,” said Tarrant County District Attorney Ashlea Deener....

NATO allies have agreed for the first time to include the challenges and threats posed by China in a strategy plan at the last summit in Madrid this week. The previous alliance document, issued in 2010, made no reference to China. In its new Strategic Concept, NATO said addressing the “systemic challenges posed by the People’s Republic of China for Euro-Atlantic security” and “deepening the strategic partnership” between China and Russia would now be among its top priorities....

At least 11 apartment buildings and 39 private homes were damaged, while five houses were completely destroyed, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. Mr Gladkov had earlier said the city of nearly 400,000 was rocked by a series of explosions, adding: “Probably, the air defense system worked.” At least four people were injured and two were hospitalized, including a 10-year-old boy, he said. The reports could not be independently verified....

The national average for gas prices was $4.82 a gallon Saturday — and more than $6.25 in California. “My message to the companies that run gas stations and set prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global danger,” Biden tweeted. “Reduce the price you charge at the pump to reflect the cost you pay for the product. And do it now.” The Biden administration has blamed rising gas prices on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, now in its fourth month....

The executive body, which decides on demands for how Tory leadership challenges are met, meets at 4pm on Wednesday in the House of Commons for a regular meeting. Three members of the 1922 executive told The Telegraph on Wednesday that a decision was likely to be made to open Mr Johnson to another confidence vote. The Prime Minister has been protected from another challenge for a year since winning the vote of Tory MPs last month under current rules, but that could change from the 1922 executive....