内容摘要：Faithful readers know of my visceral antipathy towards Donald Trump whose idea of governance is largely driven by vindictiveness and reprisal. So, the crux of this column should not be construed as an endorsement or hearty praise.

Faithful readers know of my visceral antipathy towards Donald Trump whose idea of governance is largely driven by vindictiveness and reprisal. So, the crux of this column should not be construed as an endorsement or hearty praise.

Multiple football fans were injured in a car ramming incident during Liverpool FC’s Premier League victory parade on Monday. The UK’s prime minister described the scenes as “utter horror”. The driver was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, dangerous driving, and drug driving.Humanitarian groups slam Gaza’s new US-Israeli aid operation

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it has started sending limited aid into Gaza, after Israel’s three-month siege. But humanitarian groups have condemned the new process, as politicised and a potential breach of international law.German Chancellor Merz confirms Kyiv can now target Russian military positions with long-range weapons from Western allies.Germany’s newly elected chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has announced that Ukraine’s Western allies are

lifting range restrictionson the weapons they have been supplying to Kyiv.

Speaking at a local political event in Berlin on Monday, Merz said the policy shift applies to weapons provided by countries including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded, saying any such decision runs “absolutely contrary” to any future peace settlement with Kyiv.But Salgado pushed back on that assessment in a 2024 interview with The Guardian. “Why should the poor world be uglier than the rich world? The light here is the same as there. The dignity here is the same as there.”

In 2014, one of his sons, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, partnered with the German filmmaker Wim Wenders to film a documentary about Salgado’s life, called The Salt of the Earth.One of his last major photography collections was Amazonia, which captured the Amazon rainforest and its people. While some viewers criticised his depiction of Indigenous peoples in the series, Salgado defended his work as a vision of the region’s vitality.

“To show this pristine place, I photograph Amazonia alive, not the dead Amazonia,” he told The Guardian in 2021, after the collection’s release.As news of Salgado’s death spread on Friday, artists and public figures offered their remembrances of the photographer and his work. Among the mourners was Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, who offered a