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Danish murderer Peter Madsen challenges life sentence in submarine murder case

He and Elon Musk would get along well?

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Danish inventor Peter Madsen has appealed against his life sentence for murdering a Swedish reporter. His lawyer argued his jail term should address only mishandling of the corpse, which carries a six-month sentence.

Thai police academy bans women from enrolling

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Female assault victims may not go to police in country where an estimated 90% of rapes are unreported

A major police academy in Thailand has announced it will ban women from enrolling , sparking accusations of gender discrimination.

The Royal Police Cadet Academy (RPCA), on the western outskirts of Bangkok, accepts about 300 applicants a year. But from 2019 it will admit only men. Worawut Sripakhon, an RPCA captain, did not offer a reason for the new rule, saying: “It’s policy. We’re not allowed to give any more information than that.”

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Shocked by Brexit, we launched the first party for the Erasmus generation | Colombe Cahen-Salvador

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The vote to leave the EU made me take action. We now have Volt, a party offering a different kind of politics

Before Brexit I never thought deeply about Europe. I benefited from the European Union, studied its shortcomings and achievements, yet it had always seemed to be a given. But 23 June 2016 changed everything. On the morning of Britain’s vote to leave the EU I was on the phone to my partner, Andrea Venzon, and felt devastated. I grew up in France and studied law in the UK. Andrea and I had always planned to move to London some day. It just made sense: I’m French, he’s Italian, and we’d first met there. We represent the generation who have been able to study across Europe as part of the Erasmus scheme. Suddenly we had to rethink everything. I was 22.

During that call, Andrea said something that struck me: “Let’s stop complaining and actually do something.” Since bad politics had brought us here, good politics might be the answer. He had the right idea: to start a progressive, pan-European movement. We called it Volt: a word that’s understood across borders and shows we want to bring new energies to Europe.

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Elon Musk calls Thailand diver ‘child rapist’ in latest baseless attack

Needs some superglue to hold himself together – narcissists often do.

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Tesla CEO, who previously called Vernon Unsworth a ‘pedo’, has faced widespread backlash over his comments

Elon Musk has escalated his baseless attacks against a British diver, claiming without evidence that the man who helped rescue children from a cave in Thailand was a “child rapist” in an email to a reporter.

The embattled Tesla CEO faced widespread backlash in July when he first called the diver Vernon Unsworth a “pedo” in a tweet – an unfounded claim against a man who was part of the international team that freed 12 young footballers and their coach from the Tham Luang cave complex. Musk, who had unsuccessfully attempted to assist the rescue mission, eventually apologized to Unsworth.

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Tony Blair has ‘friendly, positive meeting’ with Italy’s Matteo Salvini

He would – always ready to sell out himself or his country.

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Far-right minister believed to have discussed Azerbaijani gas pipeline project with ex-PM

Tony Blair has held a meeting with the Italian far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, during which the pair are believed to have discussed controversial plans to extend a gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to southern Italy.

The Italian minister had previously said he was willing to hear the former British prime minister’s views on the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, an Azerbaijan-backed project on which Blair has worked as a consultant since 2014.

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