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By-election no stepping stone, Tory candidate says 3 days ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Ewan Gawne North West Michael Winstanley was speaking on BBC Radio Manchester The Conservative candidate for the Makerfield by-election has promised to dedicate his time to championing the community r…

Brendan Banfield arrives to testify in his double murder trial in Fairfax county, Virginia, in January. Photograph: Tom Brenner/AP View image in fullscreen Brendan Banfield arrives to testify in his double murder trial in Fairfax county, Virginia, in January. Photograph: Tom Brenner/AP US man who pl…

Brendan Banfield arrives to testify in his double murder trial in Fairfax county, Virginia, in January. Photograph: Tom Brenner/AP View image in fullscreen Brendan Banfield arrives to testify in his double murder trial in Fairfax county, Virginia, in January. Photograph: Tom Brenner/AP US man who plotted with au pair to murder wife given life sentence Brendan Banfield convicted of killing Christine Banfield and man lured to couple’s Virginia home as fall guy A Virginia man who was having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without parole for the murder of his wife and a man who was lured to the couple’s home as a fall guy. Brendan Banfield, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) law enforcement officer, claimed he shot Joseph Ryan after he came across Ryan attacking his wife on the morning of 24 February 2023. But prosecutors said Brendan Banfield and au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães set Ryan up in a scheme to kill Christine Banfield, a pediatric intensive care nurse. Judge Penney Azcarate called Banfield’s conduct evil and calculated. “The disregard of the life of your wife, someone you supposedly loved, is almost unfathomable,” she said in handing down the sentence, which is mandatory in Virginia for an aggravated murder conviction. The scheme involved “luring a completely innocent man into your deadly trap; continuing on after the murders without a care; and not once – not once – thinking of the impact” on the Banfields’ four-year-old daughter. Brendan Banfield “took everything from her”, Azcarate said. In addition to murder, jurors in February convicted Banfield of child endangerment because the couple’s daughter was home during the killings. Azcarate sentenced Banfield to an additional five years on that charge and three more years on a firearms charge. Speaking at his sentencing, Banfield proclaimed his innocence. Banfield said he loved his wife and, although he had affairs, he never intended to leave her. Azcarate was unmoved, citing his lack of remorse as a reason she felt no hesitation in ordering him to remain behind bars for life. During Friday’s hearing, Christine Banfield’s older sister, Danielle Hocker, described her sister as kind, caring, reliable and selfless. She said they grew up chasing fireflies and sleeping next to each other on the floor in sleeping bags. “When she was born, ‘I’ became ‘we’,” Hocker said. “I haven’t stopped saying ‘we’ when I speak about my childhood after her death, except now when I do, it takes my breath away – a pause filled with love that has nowhere to go.” Ryan’s mother, Deidre Fisher, told the court that her son was an “extremely caring” person who was a caretaker for his grandmother and other loved ones. “Joe was a guy who believed in fighting for the underdog, and even actual neglected dogs,” Fisher said, with a small laugh. “He would walk into an animal shelter and ask for the oldest, ugliest dogs, bring them home and love them for years.” Explo

Lebanese soldiers in front of destroyed houses in the village of Dibbin, southern Lebanon. Israeli forces withdrew from the village on Thursday. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP View image in fullscreen Lebanese soldiers in front of destroyed houses in the village of Dibbin, southern Lebanon. Israeli fo…

EU customs documents for equipment can cost orchestras up to £5,000 per tour, the report said. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian View image in fullscreen EU customs documents for equipment can cost orchestras up to £5,000 per tour, the report said. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian M…

By — Associated Press Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/putin-slams-western-sanctions-as-damaging-to-the-global-economy Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Putin slams Western sanctions as damaging to the global economy World Jun 5, 2026 11:22 AM EDT ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that developing countries have gained an increasingly important role in the global economy, while the share of output by Western countries has shrunk. In a speech to the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin accused the West of undermining the global economy and finances with unilateral sanctions. READ MORE: No one hurt in maritime drone explosion at a Romanian Black Sea port By freezing Russian assets abroad through sanctions, Western nations eroded trust in their own currencies, he said. Educate your inbox Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. "The sanctions and blocking of Russia's sovereign reserves have irreversibly impacted the standing of international currencies, the dollar and the euro," he said. "Just like Russia, any other country could lose access to their legitimate assets in dollars or euros, as well as Western financial and payment systems." He alleged that high state debt had helped undermine global trust in Western institutions. READ MORE: House passes bill to provide more Ukraine aid and impose new sanctions on Russia "The roots of the current global turbulence lie in the transition from a vertical, hierarchical model, which served the interests of a small number of states, to a more complex, distributed and multipolar one," Putin said. "Russia views global changes not only as a threat but also as immense opportunities. And to capitalize on them, we aim to act swiftly and pragmatically." The Russian leader said the world needed a "modern, flexible and responsible financial architecture — free from risks, bans and barriers." Putin played down Russia's economic slowdown and sought to emphasize its macroeconomic stability. He noted that Russia's state debt is a fraction of that in Western countries and its budget deficit is considerably smaller, compared with the West. The forum comes at a time when Russia's economic outlook has clouded amid the conflict in Ukraine. The government raised taxes and increased domestic borrowing to keep its budget deficit under control. On Thursday, Putin told heads of international media at a question-and-answer session that it was an exaggeration to say Russia's economy was struggling. He noted that his government had taken deliberate steps to cool the economy to keep inflation under control. Putin has used the St. Petersburg forum, likened to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to showcase his country's economic advances and encourage foreign investment. While Western officials and business

EU customs documents for equipment can cost orchestras up to £5,000 per tour, the report said. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian View image in fullscreen EU customs documents for equipment can cost orchestras up to £5,000 per tour, the report said. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian M…

Anwar Ashraf, 39, was sentenced after a trial at Winchester crown court. The judge said it was a ‘miracle’ that Carla Skeites survived the attack. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Anwar Ashraf, 39, was sentenced after a trial at Winchester crown court. The judge …

By-election no stepping stone, Tory candidate says 3 days ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Ewan Gawne North West Michael Winstanley was speaking on BBC Radio Manchester The Conservative candidate for the Makerfield by-election has promised to dedicate his time to championing the community r…

How the contest is shaping up two weeks ahead of crucial Makerfield by-election 2 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Chris Mason Political editor Reuters Labour's Andy Burnham is still dancing delicately in the language he is choosing to use about his ambitions, but his remarks on the B…

Anwar Ashraf, 39, was sentenced after a trial at Winchester crown court. The judge said it was a ‘miracle’ that Carla Skeites survived the attack. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Anwar Ashraf, 39, was sentenced after a trial at Winchester crown court. The judge …

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Hello and welcome to our UK politics blog. David Lammy has come out in support of the prime minister, saying Keir Starmer would fight in a leadership contest after Andy Burnham said he would join one if elected an MP. “There is no contest at the moment, and my view is it would be a huge distraction …

Hodge said she was concerned the National Audit Office was not able to find how much money Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was making from subletting properties on the crown estate. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Hodge said she was concerned the National Audit Office was not …

Officers were called to the student village in the west of Guildford at 10am on Thursday after reports of a serious assault. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA View image in fullscreen Officers were called to the student village in the west of Guildford at 10am on Thursday after reports of a serious assault. Ph…

By-election no stepping stone, Tory candidate says 3 days ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Ewan Gawne North West Michael Winstanley was speaking on BBC Radio Manchester The Conservative candidate for the Makerfield by-election has promised to dedicate his time to championing the community r…

Volodymyr Zelensky in his office in Kyiv. The Ukrainian president tells Vladimir Putin in an open letter: ‘If you do not personally come to the conclusion that it is time to end this war, Ukraine will continue fighting for its existence.’ Photograph: Ukrainian presidential press service View image i…

Starmer can survive a leadership challenge, says attorney general 8 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Jennifer McKiernan Political reporter BBC Attorney General Lord Hermer speaking to Nick Robinson Sir Keir Starmer can prove his critics wrong and survive a leadership challenge, his …