German authorities investigate swastikas painted in blood – The Washington Post

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German authorities investigate swastikas painted in blood The Washington Post
Man held after cars in German city found smeared with swastikas in blood BBC
Germany news: Police investigate swastika vandalism DW
German police detain man suspected of painting swastikas on cars and walls with his own blood – as it happened The Guardian
Swastikas painted ‘in blood’ on cars and buildings The Telegraph

Nancy Pelosi announces retirement after decades in US Congress

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Pelosi made history as the first female Speaker and left an indelible mark on US politics.

Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches

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Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak

Canada’s food inspection agency says it plans to begin a “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country’s top court declined to block the controversial cull.

On Thursday, the supreme court said it would not take up a case that has catalyzed a fierce protest by the farm owners and protesters – as well as senior figures in the Trump administration, who have decried the public health effort as government overreach.

Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins dies aged 85

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Family pays tribute to actor who was a ‘bright, sparky, witty presence on stage and screen’

Pauline Collins – a life in pictures

The Shirley Valentine actor Pauline Collins has died aged 85, her family has announced.

She died peacefully, surrounded by her family, in her care home in Highgate, north London, having had Parkinson’s disease for several years, they said.

Nandy breached code over appointment of donor to lead football regulator

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Culture secretary ‘deeply regrets error’ after inquiry finds failures in declaring past donations by watchdog nominee

Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, has apologised to Keir Starmer after an inquiry found she failed to say that her choice of nominee to lead a new football regulator had donated to her and to Labour before she nominated him for the role.

Nandy said she regretted the errors highlighted in a report by William Shawcross, the commissioner for public appointments. Her apology comes a week after the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, made her own written apology to the prime minister for failing to obtain a licence before renting out her family home.

COP30: World leaders take aim at Trump for climate inaction

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World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.

COP30: World leaders take aim at Trump for climate inaction

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World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.

Israel carries out wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon

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Three towns attacked despite truce with Hezbollah in what Israeli military says was effort to prevent group rearming

The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes in southern Lebanon in what it described as an attempt to prevent Hezbollah rearming.

Israeli warplanes struck the towns of Kfar Dounine, Tayr Debba and Zawtar al-Sharqiya on Thursday, about an hour after issuing evacuation warnings to residents. No deaths had been reported at the time of publishing.

SOAS University ‘concerned’ by reports of Sami Hamdi’s detention in the US

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SOAS University, of which Hamdi is an alumnus, urge 'US authorities to ensure full transparency and due process'.

‘We need help’: devastated Jamaican communities still await aid after Hurricane Melissa – The Guardian

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Lammy says he was right not to discuss mistakenly freed prisoner at PMQs

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Justice secretary says he did not have ‘all the detail’ at the time and there is ‘mountain to climb’ on prisons crisis

David Lammy has said the government has “a mountain to climb” to tackle the prisons crisis and insisted he was “not equipped with all the detail” when questioned in parliament the previous day about a mistaken prisoner release.

After a fraudster mistakenly freed from prison handed himself in on Thursday, the justice secretary said he had been right not to provide details to MPs at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday about the release of a sex offender who remains at large.

Famed Florentine diamond surfaces in Canada after century-long disappearance

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Empress Zita brought stone to Canada as Nazis took over Europe in 1940s and it remained in bank vault ever since

At the height of the Battle of Britain, when the UK government needed a secret location to store 186,332 gold bars, it turned to Canada.

Shipped across the Atlantic and stored beneath a hastily constructed vault in Montreal, Operation Fish became known both for the vast amounts of gold involved – and the immense secrecy that followed.

Frontline report: Ukrainian defenders turn Russian offensive into “graveyard for armor and manpower” near Pokrovsk – Euromaidan Press

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RSF says it agrees to mediators’ ceasefire proposal in Sudan war

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Paramilitary says it will accept a ceasefire proposed by the Quad mediators - the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE.

Lucy Powell says Labour must stand by promise not to raise key taxes

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New deputy leader also calls on government to lift two-child benefit cap urgently and in full

Labour should stand by its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT, its deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said in a challenge that will put pressure on Rachel Reeves.

With the Treasury examining whether to raise income tax to plug a £30bn fiscal hole, Powell said it was “really important we stand by the promises we were elected on and do what we said we would do”.

Sudanese militia group accused of war crimes agrees to a ceasefire

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International mediators broker three-month halt to civil war as further evidence emerges of mass civilian killings

A Sudanese paramilitary group accused of killing thousands of unarmed civilians in an ethnically motivated massacre has agreed to a truce.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is facing mounting criticism over apparent war crimes committed by its fighters in the city of El Fasher last month, said it had agreed to a “humanitarian ceasefire” put forward by the quad countries of the US, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.