Spanish foreign minister says ‘every last person’ will be returned to Morocco, urging migrants to ‘not risk lives again’ – Europe live

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Spanish foreign minister urges migrant to 'not risk their lives' again, says 'every last person' will be returned to Morocco

Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares visited Ceuta earlier today, as he insisted that Madrid had it all under control despite “the most unique and complex” border arrangements there.

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Burnham says he's 'increasingly confident' PC Harper's killers will stay in jail under revised early release scheme

Andy Burnham has written a post on his Facebook account about the prisoner early release scheme. Explaining why he has asked Alex Norris to come up with further plans, he says he is “increasingly confident” that the government will be able to revise the scheme so that PC Andrew Harper’s killers remain in jail.

New optical method reveals internal dynamics of elusive Wigner crystals

New optical method reveals internal dynamics of elusive Wigner crystals
Optical signatures of a Wigner crystal in a WSe2 monolayer. Credit: Lujun Wang et al

Researchers at the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new method to reveal the collective motion of electrons in one of the most elusive states of matter: the Wigner crystal. Using light, the physicists were able to uncover previously inaccessible properties of this fragile quantum state.

Nvidia gets $500bn from Wall Street giants to develop AI projects

Nvidia has teamed up with some of Wall Street's largest banks and investors to raise $500bn (£370bn) in capital for artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The chipmaker said it had struck deals with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR, and that the investors were for the first time treating AI hardware and infrastructure, often referred to as "compute", as an asset class.

What to know about the US primaries in Connecticut, Vermont, and Alabama

The United States midterm primaries continue, with voters in several states heading to the polls to choose the Republican and Democratic candidates to compete in November’s elections.

Connecticut and Vermont will be going to the polls on Tuesday to vote for their congressional representatives and governor. Alabama voters in four congressional districts will head to the polls for special primary elections to select US House nominees under a new map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts.

Bashar al-Assad, Atef Najib sentenced to death in landmark Syria trial

The former Syrian leader has been convicted of premeditated murder, torture and crimes against humanity.

Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and cousin Atef Najib have been sentenced to death after being convicted of crimes during the country’s nearly 14-year war.