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Received — 12 June 2026 The Guardian - World news

Police arrest suspect in shooting at Ohio festival that wounded 12

12 June 2026 at 21:30

Eljay Crisp-Carr was arrested on Thursday, and police are still searching for another suspect in Toledo shooting

Police in Ohio have arrested a suspect in a recent shooting that wounded 12 people at a crowded weekend neighborhood street festival.

Eljay Crisp-Carr, 20, was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with 11 counts of felonious assault. Court documents do not list an attorney for him, and no one answered a call to a phone number associated with him on Friday morning.

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© Photograph: Rebecca Benson/The Blade/AP

© Photograph: Rebecca Benson/The Blade/AP

Palestinian football chief says US denied him visa to attend World Cup

Jibril Rajoub attended opening match in Mexico but becomes latest football official hit by US visa issues, he says

The head of the Palestinian Football Association has said he is unable to travel to the US with other federation heads attending the 2026 Fifa World Cup because he has not been issued a visa.

Jibril Rajoub went to the opening match between Mexico and South Africa in Mexico City on Thursday. But he is among several people accredited to attend the World Cup who have been denied visas or have yet to receive them from the US.

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© Photograph: Patrick B Kraemer/KEYSTONE/AP

© Photograph: Patrick B Kraemer/KEYSTONE/AP

China arrests US academic at conference for ‘espionage activities’

Arrest of Min Zin, who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy, comes just month after Trump visit to Beijing

China has arrested a US scholar who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy on suspicion of spying.

Min Zin was suspected of “engaging in espionage activities that endanger China’s national security,” China’s ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson, Lin Jian, said on Friday.

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© Photograph: CFOTO/Future Publishing/Getty Images

© Photograph: CFOTO/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Missing boy Gus Lamont’s grandmother fined for firearms offence unrelated to his disappearance

Josie Murray fined $10,500 and disqualified from gun ownership for five years after pleading guilty to possessing a gun silencer

The grandmother of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont has been fined $10,500 after admitting to a firearms offence unrelated to the boy’s disappearance eight months ago.

Josie Murray was fined $10,500 after a hearing in Adelaide magistrates court on Friday, where she pleaded guilty to one aggravated charge of possessing a sound moderator – a device better known as a gun silencer.

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© Photograph: Michael Errery/AAP

© Photograph: Michael Errery/AAP

© Photograph: Michael Errery/AAP

Trump’s hand-picked Kennedy Center board mounts last-ditch effort to keep his name

12 June 2026 at 02:01

Board seeks to stay judge’s ruling that found Trump’s name was illegally added to Washington performing arts venue

Donald Trump’s hand-picked board at the Kennedy Center is mounting a last-minute effort to keep his name on the facade of the performing arts facility before a court-ordered deadline to remove it by Friday.

The board voted on Thursday to seek a stay of US district judge Christopher Cooper’s 29 May ruling that said Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center, according to a person familiar with the move who requested anonymity to discuss a private meeting.

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© Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

© Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

© Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Man charged with kidnap and murder of Sydney woman whose body has not been found

Woman, 58, was last heard from Monday afternoon and her car was found the next day

A man has been charged over the alleged kidnapping and murder of a woman whose body is yet to be found.

Police have been investigating the disappearance of a 58-year-old woman who failed to returned to her home in Sydney’s north-west on Tuesday.

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© Photograph: Steven Saphore/AAP

© Photograph: Steven Saphore/AAP

© Photograph: Steven Saphore/AAP

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