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The police were still looking for a suspect on Thursday in the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a few hours after the close ally of Donald Trump was killed in a University of Utah, triggering a bipartite conviction.

“This shooting is still an active investigation,” the UTAH public security ministry said in a statement, adding that he was working with the FBI and local police services.

Two suspects had been placed in police custody, but thereafter. Utah governor Spencer Cox described him as “political assassination”, despite the motive and identity of the remaining vague shooter. Kirk was shot dead as he was addressed to a crowd of around 3,000 people at the University of Utah Valley in Orem, near Salt Lake City.

Poland “closer to military conflicts than for any time since the Second World War” as the NATO allies weigh the response to Russian drones

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that the country was closer to the military conflict “than in any time since the Second World War” while the Allies of Warsaw and NATO considered an answer to a Russian drone incurs in Polish plain space.

Polish and NATO aerial defenses have shot down at least three drones, while Russia’s attack on Ukraine spread to NATO territory early Wednesday in the most significant way since the start of the war. There were at least 19 violations of Polish airspace overnight, said Tusk on Wednesday, and some of them had entered Poland from Belarusian territory.

• What’s going on in response? Warsaw said NATO allies had made concrete proposals to increase its air defenses, the United Kingdom considering deploying Typhon jets as part of an improved air police mission to protect the eastern side of NATO.

• Why could Russia send drones to Poland? The Guardian Defense and Security publisher, Dan Sabbagh, dissects this question in his analysis, suggesting that a desire to create fear, to assess NATO aerial defenses and to test the commitment of the United States to the Alliance can all be factors.

• Go to our blog live for the latest updates.

Israeli air strikes have killed all hope “for hostages in Gaza, explains Qatari Prime Minister

The Prime Minister of Qatar said that Benjamin Netanyahu “had killed all hope” for the remaining hostages in Gaza thanks to the extraordinary strike of Israel against Hamas negotiators in Doha on Tuesday.

In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani described the deadly strike in the Qatari capital an act of “state terror” and called for Netanyahu to “be brought to justice”.

Qatar has played a key role as a meditant since the start of the War of Israel in Gaza, and Sheikh Mohammed accused Netanyahu of having “wasted” the time of the country to organize negotiations between Israel and Hamas, adding that Qatar would re -evaluate “everything” on its role.

• What did Netanyahu say about strikes? Despite the international conviction, he was provocative, accusing Qatar of having housed terrorists. He seemed not to exclude attacks in the future. “I say to Qatar and to all the nations that house terrorists: you expel or find them in court. Because if you don’t, we will do it. ”

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