October 11, 2022: Zelenskiy wants air defense weapons, Oath Keepers, Warhol, LA council, Venezuela
October 11, 2022: Zelenskiy as G7 for air defense weapons, Oath Keepers trial, Warhol case, LA council, Venezuela
1. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will ask the leaders of the G7 group of nations to urgently supply Ukraine with air defence weapons, after Russia rained down cruise missiles on cities across the country.
2. An FBI agent will testify in the trial of the founder of the anti-government Oath Keepers group and four others accused of plotting to use force on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory.
3. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to ponder in a case centering on paintings by the late artist Andy Warhol a question as philosophical as it is legal: what is the line between art and copyright theft when artwork is inspired by other material?
4. A Los Angeles city councilwoman resigned as president of the council after the release of an audio recording in which she makes racist and other disparaging comments, including remarks about the Black son of a colleague.
5. Venezuelans in the town of Las Tejerias, in the country’s Aragua state, waited amid a rising death toll as rescuers searched for the more than 50 missing persons who were swept away on Saturday by devastating floods following heavy rain.
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