Trial of former DUP leader is expected to last four weeks and is among the most high-profile in Northern Ireland in recent years
The jury in Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial for alleged sex offences has been sworn in, launching one of the most high-profile trials in recent Northern Irish history.
The former MP and Democratic Unionist party leader entered Newry crown court on Tuesday amid a heavy police and media presence for a trial that is expected to last about four weeks.
Continue reading...After the long-running late-night institution ended last week, Guardian readers have been sharing their fondest memories of the show and its much-loved host
Stephen doesn’t know that he was my Covid buddy. I’d sent my daughter to her dad’s house in rural Scotland so he was my evening companion and kept me sane. I know he was speaking to me directly but it felt like there was another person muddling through with me. I loved his wit, charm and an American perspective. I stayed with him ever since (on YouTube). A reminder that not all Americans are represented by Maga and that there is still an intelligent and witty America out there, a candle of light in the darkening chaos. He’s charmed me, made me think and I’ll miss him more than a stranger reasonably should. Alice, London
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In Ava Roth’s sculpture practice, a finished piece is the result of careful planning and tending, but the outcome can only be predicted so much. Whether creating wooden frameworks or organic embroideries, the artist leaves it to bees to create the ultimate form.
Roth has long invited the honeycomb-building insects to play a role in her work, often adding wonderfully bulbous constructions that occasionally disrupt the artist’s carefully placed boundaries. Wooden pieces are mandala-like and take on the quality of low reliefs once the bees have done their part. Recently, she leapt into the three-dimensional realm via ceramics and a time-honored tradition of repair in her series Kintsu-Bee.
The new body of work is a play on the Japanese word kintsugi, which describes a traditional method of repairing ceramics with metallic lacquer. The process embraces the nature of the breakage itself, mending the vessel yet highlighting the cracks as a way of embracing the object’s history rather than trying to camouflage it. In Roth’s iteration, bees are invited to reconstruct the missing parts, guided around forms to create the missing handle of a mug or fill in the fissures of a dinner plate.
“Mirroring the philosophy of kintsugi, the unique architecture of the comb acts both as a restorative measure and as a visual memory of the past,” says a statement. “When extracted, the delicacy and complexity of the composite objects—half human and half insect—tell a story not just of human violence but of the earth’s capacity for repair.”
See more on Roth’s Instagram.
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BEIROET (ANP) - De Israëlische krijgsmacht (IDF) heeft de grondoperaties in het zuiden van Libanon uitgebreid tot boven de zelf ingestelde 'gele lijn', schrijft de Israëlische krant Haaretz. De lijn is een onofficiële afbakening van "Israëlisch grondgebied" in Zuid-Libanon, die Israël afgelopen april aankondigde.
Volgens Haaretz doet de IDF dit om "de dreiging van explosieve drones van Hezbollah" te bestrijden.
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