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By Riley Stuart, ABC British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has praised King Charles III, saying he was doing a "fantastic job", after the monarch was heckled by independent senator Lidia Thorpe. Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe disrupts proceedings as Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a reception at Parliament House, 21 October, 2024. Photo: Lukas Coch / ABC Senator Thorpe's protest, which involved her shouting at the royal, who had just delivered a speech at an event in Canberra, made global headlines. The Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman yelled "you are not our king" and "this is not your land" at the king before striding towards the stage in The Great Hall at Parliament House and continuing: "You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land ...

A Met Police officer. Photo: 123RF By Sam Tobin, Reuters A British police officer has been acquitted of the murder of a Black man he shot dead in London two years ago, an incident that led to large protests and anger among the capital's Black community. Martyn Blake, 40, had pleaded "not guilty" to the murder of Chris Kaba, who was unarmed and died from a single gunshot to the head in south London on 5 September, 2022. Blake had shot Kaba through the windscreen after he tried to drive his car, which had been linked to a reported shooting the previous evening, away from police vehicles that had boxed him in. The head of London's Metropolitan police force, Mark Rowley, said Blake had made a split-second decision. "Any fatal use of force understandably prompts huge concern among communitie...

Activist Korey Wise (C) speaks on stage as representatives from the Central Park Five, (L-R) Activist Kevin Richardson, New York City Council Member Dr. Yusef Salaam, and Activist Raymond Santana, along with Rev. Al Sharpton (2nd-R) look on during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on 22 August, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. Photo: ANDREW HARNIK / AFP By Devan Cole, CNN Members of the 'Central Park Five' sued former President Donald Trump on Monday over "false and defamatory" statements they allege he made about their 1989 case during a presidential debate last month. The five men claim in a federal lawsuit that Trump knew he was acting with "reckless disregard" for the truth when he said during the September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris t...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Photo: DUSTIN FRANZ / AFP Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain in a tight contest across seven battleground states with just over two weeks until the 5 November US presidential election, a Washington Post/Schar School opinion poll showed on Monday. Democratic former prosecutor Harris led among likely voters in Georgia 51 percent to 47 percent, while Republican Trump was slightly ahead in Arizona with 49 percent to 46 percent. Both findings fell within the plus or minus 4.5 percentage points margin of error in the poll, which surveyed 5016 registered voters from 30 September to 15 October. Harris, who became the party's candidate after President Joe Biden stepped aside in July, also had an ed...