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Tommy Cash says he did not expect Espresso Macchiato, with references to mafia and pasta, to cause such offenceEstonia’s entry for this year’s Eurovision song contest has said he never intended to offend Italy with his song that pokes fun at Italian stereotypes of coffee-drinking, spaghetti-eating mafiosi – and said he submitted the song after his grandmother cried over it.There have been calls in Italy for Tommy Cash’s catchy song, Espresso Macchiato, to be banned from the competition, which takes place in Basel, Switzerland, in May. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/02/i-love-italy-says-estonian-eurovision-entry-tommy-cash Author : Angela Giuffrida in Rome Publish date

Experts say young men and boys ‘with strong sense of grievance’ are ‘idolising’ shooters involved in US massacres. They are also falling through the gaps of UK terrorism lawsOn the morning of 13 September, 18-year-old Nicholas Prosper was arrested while walking on a residential road in Luton. Minutes before, he had murdered his mother, younger brother and sister, shooting them dead in their family home.Neighbours called police after hearing gunfire coming from the flat in Leabank tower, on Luton’s Marsh Farm estate, and officers found Prosper shortly afterwards on Bramingham Road. Later that day, searches of the area uncovered a

Widespread shooting and looting preceded arrival of M23 rebels, overwhelming city’s poorly resourced facilitiesPatients at hospitals in the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have described how they sustained serious injuries during the chaotic withdrawal of the Congolese army and its allies in the days before Rwanda-backed M23 rebels marched in.Widespread shooting and looting preceded the arrival of the rebels in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, on 14 February, overwhelming the city’s poorly resourced hospitals. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/02/bukavu-hospital-patients-tell-of-being-shot-congolese-withdrawal Author : Prosper Heri Ngorora in Bukavu and Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi Publish date

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to join leaders and meet King Charles as UK and EU ­support Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative party, has written in The Telegraph to call for an increase to defence spending among Nato countries. She welcomed Keir Starmer’s plans to increase domestic defence spending to 2.5% of national income by 2027 but said “that step cannot be the final one”. Starmer said the rise from the current 2.3% means £13.4bn more will be spent annually on defence after 2027. It will be paid for by cuts to to foreign aid.In making his surprise announcement