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'Our Broken Hearts Have Been Lifted': Epstein-Linked Prince Andrew Arrested in UK
"No one is above the law, not even royalty,” the family said in a statement. “For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”
Feb 19, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the one-time Duke of York, was arrested in the UK on Thursday after facing scrutiny over his ties to late billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
News of the arrest first came when the Thames Valley Police Department announced that it had "opened an investigation into an offense of misconduct in public office" and had arrested "a man in his sixties from Norfolk."
King Charles III subsequently released a statement confirming that Mountbatten-Windsor, who is the king's younger brother, had been taken into custody.
"I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office," said the king. "What now follows is the full, fair, and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities."
King Charles emphasized that investigators "have our full and wholehearted support and cooperation," while adding "the law must take its course."
The family of the late Virginia Giuffre, who accused Mountbatten-Windsor of sexually assaulting her when she was 17 years old and who died by suicide last year, released a statement expressing relief at the former prince's arrest.
"At last," the family wrote. "Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty. On behalf of our sister, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we extend our gratitude to the UK’s Thames Valley Police for their investigation and arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor."
"He was never a prince," the family added. "For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you."
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Surging Weather Extremes Fuel Fresh Demands for Biden to Declare Climate Emergency
One campaigner said political leaders must "use every tool in their power to abate the emergency that's no longer at our doorstep anymore, but that has a foot in the door and is already affecting people right now."
Jul 10, 2023
As record temperatures, deadly flooding, and other extreme weather driven by human-caused global heating hammer at least millions of people around the world, activists this week are once again imploring U.S. President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency.
Over the past week, the planet endured record-breaking average global temperatures, prompting United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to declare that "climate change is out of control."
Devastating monsoons in India, deadly downpours in Japan, flash floods in Spain, and torrential rains and flooding in the northeastern United States also underscored what climate scientists have long warned are the increasingly severe consequences of a warming planet.
"Now would be another perfect moment for President Biden to declare a climate emergency."
Meanwhile, tens of millions of people in the United States are bracing for an imminent heat dome expected to bring triple-digit temperatures to much of the southern part of the country this week.
The extreme weather chaos around the world has activists sounding the alarm and demanding the Biden administration issue a climate emergency declaration.
"It's terrifying to think that we're already here," John Paul Mejia, national spokesperson for the youth-led Sunrise Movement, told Supercreator Daily on Monday.
"And I think that that puts a lot of urgency to the political leaders of this moment who are endowed with a responsibility to use every tool in their power to abate the emergency that's no longer at our doorstep anymore, but that has a foot in the door and is already affecting people right now," Mejia added.
Jamie Henn, director of Fossil Free Media, tweeted Monday that "now would be another perfect moment for President Biden to declare a climate emergency."
Noting the current chaos, Henn added that "we need political leaders to speak to the urgency of this crisis."
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is asking Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act and the Trade Expansion Act to boost domestic production of affordable renewable power and clean energy exports. The CPC also calls on the president to reinstate the ban on crude oil exports that was lifted by Congress and then-President Barack Obama in 2015.
A year ago, amid a previous record-shattering heatwave, Biden—who during his 2020 presidential campaign said that climate change was the "number one issue facing humanity"—reportedly considered making a historic declaration.
"This is an emergency, and I will look at it that way," the president said last July.
Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, are trying to preemptively block Biden from declaring a climate emergency. Late last month, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)—a fossil fuel investor who has received more than $1.4 million in industry campaign contributions—introduced legislation that would "prohibit the president from using the three primary statutory authorities available (the National Emergencies Act, the Stafford Act, and section 319 of the Public Health Service Act) to declare a national emergency solely on the basis of climate change."
According to Climate Mobilization, an environmental advocacy coalition, nearly 200 U.S. cities, counties, and other jurisdictions have declared climate emergencies over the past five years.
On Monday, Biden met with U.K. King Charles III in London's Windsor Castle, where they reportedly discussed the climate emergency and "engaged with a group of leading philanthropists and investors focused on mobilizing finance to address the climate crisis," according to the White House.
The renewed demands for Biden to declare a climate emergency come as new research published Monday revealed that last year's historically hot summer killed more than 61,000 people across Europe.
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Brazilian President Lula da Silva Calls For Freedom For Julian Assange
'The press, which defends freedom of the press, does nothing to free this citizen.'
May 07, 2023
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva has called for freedom for Julian Assange and denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free the journalist.
Lula spoke to a group of reporters in London Saturday while in town to attend the coronation of King Charles III.
Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison while fighting extradition to the United States.
“It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It’s a crazy thing,” Lula told reporters. “We talk about freedom of expression; the guy is in prison because he denounced wrongdoing. And the press doesn’t do anything in defense of this journalist. I can’t understand it.”
“I think there must be a movement of world press in his defense. Not in regard to his person, but to defend the right to denounce,” Lula told the reporters. “The guy didn’t denounce anything vulgar. He denounced that a state was spying on others, and that became a crime against the journalist. The press, which defends freedom of the press, does nothing to free this citizen. It’s sad, but it’s true.”
Also, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday he too was frustrated over the continued detention of Julian Assange: "enough is enough."
"I know it's frustrating, I share the frustration," Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. from London for the coronation of King Charles III.
"I can't do more than make very clear what my position is, and the U.S. administration is certainly very aware of what the Australian government's position is. There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration."
"Enough is enough, this needs to be brought to a conclusion, it needs to be worked through," said Albanese.
Assange has battled for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where the journalist faces 17 charges of espionage because of WikiLeaks’ publication of a trove of classified documents in 2010.
US prosecutors allege he published 700,000 secret classified documents which exposed the United States government and its wrongdoings in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wikileaks received the documents from Chelsea Manning.
Albanese said Australians cannot understand why the US would free the source who leaked the documents, Chelsea Manning, while Assange still faces life in prison.
President Joe Biden has been accused of hypocrisy for demanding the release of journalists around the world, while he actively seeks the extradition of Assange to face American espionage charges.
Assange faces a sentence of up to 175 years in a maximum security prison if extradited to the United States.
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