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A man has been hospitalized in Austin, Texas after being shot by an officer of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), local officials said Sunday. Austin's Mayor Kirk Watson expressed his anger over the shooting, calling for the involvement of the local police in a "clear-eyed"  investigation into the incident. What do we know about the ICE shooting in Austin? The man suffered one gunshot wound in his torso during a brief foot pursuit in the Texan capital's north side shortly before 1 pm local time, Austin officials said at a press briefing. He is at a local hospital in a serious but stable condition, the officials said, adding that the information on the incident was "very preliminary." City police officers were not involved in the operation or the shooting, Austin Police ...

The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare and prized manuscript that recounts the history of the Aztecs in vibrant pictograms, has returned to Mexico for the first time since 1840. It went on display in Mexico City on Thursday. The codex is a 16th-century artifact and regarded as one of the most important visual records of Aztec history. It records the founding of the Aztec capital to its fall after the subsequent arrival of Spanish conquistadores. It arrived in Mexico on loan from France's Bibliotheque Nationale, where it has been since 1898. The temporary loan is occurring as the two nations celebrate 200 years of diplomatic ties. In return for the Azcatitlan Codex, Mexico will loan a different historical artifact to FranceImage: Carl De Souza/AFP Reunited with history As two folios from the docu...

Buckingham Palace has hit back at claims by the late Princess Diana's brother that King Charles III acted cruelly after her death in a car crash in 1997 — the latest of many criticisms leveled at the king by his former brother-in-law Earl Charles Spencer in recent decades. The dispute is liable to overshadow a public engagement on Thursday when Charles will meet with various AI executives in Scotland to appeal to them to take care in their work.  What is the argument about?  Earl Spencer, Diana's elder brother, has written a new book being serialized in the Daily Mail newspaper, in which he alleges that Charles told him in an angry phone call, "rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough," days after Diana died aged 36.  "While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Ma...

An English village of about 350 people has voted to "secede" from the United Kingdom, in a symbolic protest against government plans to set up an asylum reception center nearby.  Residents of Piddington, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northeast of Oxford, celebrated with a placard reading "Principality of Piddington" near the village road sign on Wednesday. They oppose plans, still under review, to house asylum seekers in a disused military base, MoD Bicester (Site A).   Piddington is home to about 350 people and has few amenities or facilities to speak ofImage: Joe Giddens/PA Images/picture alliance What happened in the tongue-in-cheek breakaway vote?  The village's parish council said that 312 people cast ballots in the vote, a turnout of almost 92%.  Participants in the vote, which...

Playwright and author Bonnie Greer died aged 77, her husband David Hutchins said on Wednesday in a statement to British media.  A celebrated writer born in Chicago who at first plied her trade in New York, Greer spent most of her adult life in the UK. She took up dual citizenship and became a regular and prominent political commentator in Britain. Greer attended the Frankfurt book fair in 2019 at the height of the post-Brexit debate for a panel on the topicImage: DW/E. Grenier What did Greer's husband say about her death?  Greer's widower Hutchins hailed her as "an acclaimed playwright, author, critic, cultural and political commentator whose intelligence, courage and distinctive voice made an enduring contribution to British cultural and public life."  Hutchins said his late wife had...