Schmid requested data from the Federal Council, which provided an analysis of domestic violence frequency broken down by gender and nationality. The results show that for every 10,000 foreign men in the permanent resident population, 33.3 were accused of domestic violence in 2024, compared to 12.6 for Swiss men. For women, the rate was 13.2 for foreign women and 4.4 for Swiss women.
The data shows that foreign women are accused of domestic violence at slightly higher rates than Swiss men, however, foreign men clearly dominate in this category of crime overall, according to Blick.
A total of eight people were killed -- most of them at a school -- and more than two dozen were wounded, after a shooter opened fire on Tuesday in a small community in Canada's British Columbia. Officials had earlier said nine people were killed before revising the death toll.
The suspected shooter -- identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar -- is dead from what is believed to be a self-inflicted injury, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The suspect did not currently have any firearms registered to her, according to the RCMP.
There was a documented history of police visits to the family residence over several years, with the most recent visit to the home in the spring of 2025. That visit was related to "concerns regarding mental health" and "self-harm" with respect to the suspect, British Columbia Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said, during a press briefing on Wednesday.
Van Rootselaar was not currently registered or attending the school where the shooting took place. Among the dead are members of the suspect's family and students between the ages of 12 and 17, according to the RCMP.
Van Rootselaar was assigned male at birth but publicly identified as a female, according to the RCMP.
In the late 1980s, Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz made the controversial warning that the 1967 occupation risked turning Israelis into “Judeo-Nazis.”
Leibowitz recently found a surprising supporter for this opinion – Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon.
On Friday, Ya’alon tweeted that “Yeshayahu Leibowitz was right, and I was wrong”. This was no benign reference – it referred directly to the late professor Leibowitz’s “warnings… concerning the process of bestialization towards us becoming ‘Judeo-Nazis’…”. Ya’alon says that the “ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy’” has become “dominant in the government of Israel”, and that it “is reminiscent of the Nazi race theory”.
This was said in relation to Ya’alon’s participation in a ceremony to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. In his tweet, he repeatedly mocks the commonly held reluctance to compare anything that Israeli Jews do today to what the Nazis did during World War II.
Keir Starmer was dubbed 'morally bankrupt' on Thursday night after blaming MI5 for failing to vet Peter Mandelson properly.
Fighting for survival amid a revolt over his handling of the scandal, the Prime Minister criticised the 'vetting carried out independently by the security services' on the disgraced Labour peer, suggesting the process needs to be looked at.
But his comments provoked a furious backlash as critics pointed out Sir Keir had already approved and announced Mandelson as the new ambassador to Washington before he was subject to in-depth national security vetting.
MI5 did not carry out checks on Mandelson - it was the job of the Cabinet Office, with limited input from spies.
On Thursday, in a desperate bid to hold on to his dwindling authority, the PM sought to present himself as a victim of Mandelson's lies, claiming he had honestly believed his assurances that he 'barely knew' Jeffrey Epstein.
But the suggestion that Sir Keir was somehow blind to the true nature of their relationship and that MI5 should have dug deeper only heightened anger among MPs who accused him of a 'grubby attempt to shift blame'.
At the time of Mandelson's appointment last February, there was a wealth of evidence in the public domain about his close friendship with paedophile Epstein.
Tory security spokesman Alicia Kearns said: 'Keir Starmer exposes again his abject lack of integrity. Blaming our security services when he rail-roaded Mandelson into post, and only afterwards tasked the Cabinet Office to whitewash it, is morally bankrupt.
Peter Mandelson sent a series of sexually suggestive emails to Jeffrey Epstein despite insisting he remained "kept separate" from the paedophile financier's "sexual side," newly released documents reveal.
The correspondence between the pair included brazen references to strippers, "well-hung" young men and "new hotties" in government, with their exchanges saturated in sexual innuendo throughout their relationship.
Epstein sent a lewd quip in April 2009 following a climate change protester's attack on Mandelson that made headlines when green slime was thrown across him.
The financier's private message read: "Goo on your face again."
October 2009 brought a bizarre exchange where Epstein proposed Mandelson marry Princess Anne and pursue the premiership.
Mandelson responded he would "get straight on it," prompting Epstein to reply: "You getting straight is too horrible to imagine ... I was referring to your appendage."
Exchanges during prison sentence
Epstein was serving time in July 2009 for soliciting girls as young as 14 for prostitution when he counselled Mandelson to make "bold moves."
Mandelson shot back: "In what areas..? Policy, social or sexual?"
Two days following Epstein's release from jail, Mandelson inquired how they should mark the occasion.
Epstein wrote: "With grace and modesty, (those are the names of two strippers)."
Later that same day, Mandelson asked how "freedom" felt to his newly released friend.
Epstein replied: "She feels fresh, firm, and creamy."
Read more: What we know Starmer knew about Madelson's sordid links to Epstein
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Election period messages
The run-up to the 2010 General Election during New Labour's final days generated a flurry of suggestive communications, reports the Daily Mail.
Following an emergency Cabinet reshuffle that saw Mandelson appointed Lord President of the Council, Epstein emailed: "Good work."
Mandelson's simple response: "Phew."
Epstein then questioned whether that represented merely a sigh or a reaction to "the number of new hotties" in government.
Epstein subsequently advised Mandelson to demonstrate loyalty toward Gordon Brown to prevent being sidelined.
Mandelson expressed concern Brown would "immediately press the panic button" because the Prime Minister had grown "highly sensitised to [any] movement of my eyebrow."
Epstein responded: "Are you sure the backpressure from your lack of sex is not turning your brain into fois gras?"
Mandelson acknowledged: "It's certainly a serious problem. Cure coming to London from S'hai next weekend."
Election day on May 6, 2010 brought another crude message from Mandelson to Epstein stating: "We are praying for a hung parliament. Alternatively, a well-hung young man."
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been assassinated, a source close to the family confirmed to RT on Tuesday.
He was killed by four people “who quickly fled the scene after shooting him in his garden,” a family source told Al Arabiya. According to media reports, for the last several years Gaddafi had been living in hiding in Libya.
In 2015, a Libyan court sentenced Saif al-Islam to death for his role in the crackdown on protests during the 2011 unrest that led to the downfall of his father’s government. The International Criminal Court separately charged him with crimes against humanity. Saif al-Islam was released in 2017 as part of a general amnesty.
In 2021, he registered as a candidate for the presidential election scheduled for December, but the vote ultimately collapsed amid political deadlock.
Muammar Gaddafi seized power in a 1969 coup and ruled the oil-rich country until his killing in 2011 by insurgents backed by a US-led military intervention.
Libya has since experienced intermittent civil war and remains divided between rival governments in the west and east. Presidential and parliamentary elections have repeatedly been postponed as political tensions persist.
President-elect Donald Trump named Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his nominee for Secretary of State, an abhorrent choice that shows Trump’s claim to be a peace candidate to be a complete illusion.
The New York Times reported that, since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, Rubio has “staked out a position as a foreign policy hawk, taking hard lines on China, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba in particular.”
Supportive of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, 2011 U.S. bombing of Libya and genocidal U.S.-Saudi war on Yemen, Rubio has further expressed unalloyed support for Israel’s war in Gaza, claiming that Hamas was to blame for Palestinian civilian deaths.
The New York Times emphasized that Rubio has been among the most outspoken senators on the need for the U.S. to be more aggressive on China.
While sitting on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he demanded that the Biden administration block sales to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, after it released an artificial intelligence processor chip-powered laptop.
Sanctioned by the Chinese government for supporting an anti-Chinese uprising in Hong Kong, Rubio introduced the “Taiwan Peace Through Strength Act” that would fast-track U.S.-Taiwan military coordination, and has called for Taiwan to increase its defense spending, which is not a majority view in Taiwan.
Zhu Junwei, a former researcher in the People’s Liberation Army and director of American research at Beijing’s Grandview Institution think tank, told the Australian Financial Review that Rubio’s appointment would “be a nightmare coming true.”
Rubio’s selection is also a nightmare for Cubans, given his stature as a leader of Miami’s anti-Castro Cuban expat community.
Falsely claiming that the Castro/Díaz-Canel regime has served as a puppet for Communist China, Iran, and most recently Russia, Rubio’s overriding priority as Secretary of State will be to achieve Washington’s long-standing goal of overthrowing Cuba’s socialist government by expanding on an already crushing embargo, and by supporting dissident movements through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and other State Department-linked agencies.
The son of Cuban immigrants, Rubio asserted on the campaign trail that his family came to the U.S. to escape persecution by Fidel Castro’s government. However, a review of government immigration records revealed that Rubio’s parents actually came to Miami in 1956 in order to escape persecution by U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista whom Castro overthrew.
Rubio’s grandfather Pedro Victor Garcia went back to Cuba after the Cuban Revolution to take a job in the Cuban Treasury Ministry, though later had a falling out with the Castro regime.
During Rubio’s 2016 presidential run, The New York Times quoted from a Havana resident living on the street where Rubio’s father grew up who gave Rubio a vigorous thumbs down when asked about him. Héctor Montiel, 66, said that, “if Marco Rubio becomes president, we’re done for. He’s against Cuba in every possible way….Rubio and these Republicans, they are still stuck in 1959.” Echoing similar sentiments, Alain Marcelo, 46, told The New York Times: “He [Rubio] wants to kill us!…Viva Fidel. Rubio’s our enemy!”
Born in 1971, Rubio was an indifferent student who played football at Tarkio College in Missouri before earning degrees from the University of Florida and the University of Miami School of Law.
Rubio’s dishonesty was evident when he claimed to be unaware of his brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia’s direction of a $75 million cocaine smuggling ring from his home in West Kendall, Florida, in the 1980s where Rubio lived as a teenager.
"Instability around Israel does not stay local. It affects energy markets, counterterrorism efforts, nuclear proliferation, regional power balances and American credibility worldwide. A weakened Israel would invite wider conflict and embolden adversaries far beyond the region. Supporting Israel is not about subsidizing complacency. It is about preventing dangerous chain reactions in one of the world's most volatile regions."
