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DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Final vote count gives conservative candidate 50.89 percent, while his liberal rival receives 49.11 percent.Conservative eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s presidential run-off election with all votes now counted, according to the country’s election commission. Nawrocki won 50.89 percent of votes in the tight race against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11 percent, the commission announced said on Monday. Nawrocki, 42, a historian and amateur boxer who ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure economic and social policies favour Poles over other nationalities, including refugees from neighbouring Ukraine. While Poland’s parliament…

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A 24-year-old woman was visiting Perth from the UK with her boyfriend when the e-scooter she was allegedly drunkenly driving collided with a pedestrian, leaving him fighting for life with critical injuries. 

The current record for a planned flight is held by French pilot Antoine Girard who flew 8,407 metres over a stretch of the Himalayas in 2021. Peng recorded and then deleted his flight log on XContest, a website popular among paragliders, according to Jakub Havel, a Czech paraglider who helps run the forum. Havel said other flights by Peng remained on the site. “Nobody intentionally lets themselves be sucked into a thunderstorm cloud in an attempt to break a record – it’s something that any sane paragliding pilot tries to avoid at all costs,” said Havel, who said Peng’s flight…

In solitary, it was almost always freezing. Prisoners would wrap themselves in sheets and extra clothes and walk back and forth just to stay warm. Some days, I could see my own breath. I suffered in silence, but some inmates would rip up their blankets, stuff them into their toilets and start flushing, flooding the unit. One night, prisoners on the top portion of the unit started to “flood” together. Filthy water poured down from the upper floor to the lower level, flooding the cells there. My cell filled with water up to my knees. Later, as the pipes were…

Nearly 1,000 people gathered at Main Beach in Santa Cruz, California, on Saturday for a Pride Month protest aimed squarely at President Donald Trump.Participants formed a massive human banner that spelled out “Resist!” in rainbow colors as part of a demonstration organized by Indivisible Santa Cruz County. The 220-foot-wide display, with letters reaching 70 feet high, was designed by longtime left-wing activist Brad Newsham.Organizers described the event as a peaceful act of resistance and a show of solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community.SEATTLE MAYOR ACCUSED OF LYING AFTER BLAMING CHRISTIAN RALLY FOR PARK VIOLENCE Left: Protesters hold signs reading “Peace,” “Love,” and…

The suspect accused in a “targeted terror attack” in Boulder, Colorado, where a pro-Israel group was advocating for Hamas to release the Israeli hostages, was in the United States illegally, Fox News has learned.Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was arrested and taken to the hospital with minor injuries after his alleged attack on the “Run for Their Lives” group that was gathering on Pearl Street, police said Sunday night. The group is a grassroots organization that facilitates global run and walk events calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. This particular chapter of the group meets on a weekly…

All Silvana de Oliveira Schramm ever wanted was to become a mom. She and Cilneu Machado had met in her hometown in Brazil and she had moved to Canada in 2014 before they got married.They welcomed what Machado called “their one per cent miracle baby” Leonardo in 2021.The little boy was killed last week at a bus stop in Horseshoe Bay when he, his mother and a family friend were returning from a day trip to Bowen Island.The collision happened around 3:30 p.m. on May 28, at the bus stop just outside the BC Ferries foot passenger ticket booth. Witnesses…

The author is a professor of responsible and sustainable business at Oregon State UniversityOver the past two decades, corporate sustainability has made meaningful strides. But the central focus on climate action has been too narrow.Nature loss — from deforestation and biodiversity decline to soil and ecosystem degradation — poses profound risks to business operations, supply chains, and long-term value creation. While climate action can help, it cannot replace a dedicated strategy for protecting and restoring natural ecosystems. Business leaders are beginning to take notice. A growing number are now incorporating nature into their sustainability agendas. Some are embedding biodiversity considerations into…

One thing to start: Tim Leissner, the disgraced former Goldman Sachs banker at the heart of the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, has been sentenced to two years in prison, ending one of the most infamous prosecutions in Wall Street’s history.And another thing: Wall Street is warning that a little-publicised provision in Donald Trump’s budget bill that allows the government to raise taxes on foreign investments in the US could upend markets and hit American industry.Welcome to Due Diligence, your briefing on dealmaking, private equity and corporate finance. This article is an on-site version of the newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up…