- Murder hornet swarm kills U.S. father, son ziplining in Southeast Asia New York Daily News
- American Father and Son Killed by Swarm of Hornets After Being Stung 'More Than 100' Times on Vacation Zipline People.com
- American teacher and his son are killed by swarm of hornets while ziplining in Laos The Independent
- Father and son killed by swarm of hornets in Laos The Times
- Father and son die after suspected Asian giant hornets sting them over 100 times Yahoo
Dick Cheney’s legacy looms over US and the world
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84.
Dick Cheney created the ground for Trump’s excesses, despite their differences
The ironies of Cheney’s parting of ways with Donald Trump and modern day Republicans are numerous
He was the embodiment of America-first ideals before Donald Trump and his Maga movement hijacked the phrase.
The principle of a strong president empowered to push through the agenda was core to his view of how US politics should function.
Continue reading...TikTok and Optimism: How Rob Jetten Won Over the Netherlands – The New York Times
- TikTok and Optimism: How Rob Jetten Won Over the Netherlands The New York Times
- Lessons for liberals: what can Dutch progressives’ victory over populism teach the world? The Guardian
- Dutch centrist Jetten set to be youngest-ever PM after narrow election win France 24
- Centrist D66 party takes home win in Dutch election abcnews.go.com
- Who is Rob Jetten, tipped to become youngest Dutch prime minister? BBC
NHS staff face ‘ugly’ racism akin to the 70s and 80s, says Wes Streeting
Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse
An “ugly” racism reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s has become worryingly commonplace again in modern Britain and NHS staff are bearing the brunt of it, Wes Streeting has warned.
Incidents of verbal and physical abuse based on people’s skin colour now happen so often that it has become “socially acceptable to be racist”, the health secretary said.
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We look at how AI is affecting jobs, and how gender and age influence who uses it.
Liz Cheney remains a conservative in her father’s tradition despite defying Trump
Though their neoconservative vision may seem less relevant since Bush left office, signs of the Cheneys’ influence linger in Trump’s administration
Weeks before one of America’s best-known businessmen, Donald Trump, was sworn in as president on an overcast day in Washington DC, a different politician with a similarly familiar name took her oath of office elsewhere in the Capitol.
Liz Cheney was then both a freshman congresswoman from Wyoming and a stalwart of the neoconservative philosophy espoused by her father Dick Cheney, the former vice-president under George W Bush who died on Monday. Trump had repudiated Bush’s invasion of Iraq in his campaign for president, but the congresswoman nonetheless went on to become an ally in bending Republican lawmakers to his will.
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Asio chief Mike Burgess gave a speech at the Lowy Institute in Sydney last night in which he said there were “at least” three countries whose governments were prepared to carry out assassinations on Australian soil. Asked whether it was too alarming, Burgess said that it was “incredibly important” for Australians to understand the dangers the country faced.
Continue reading...Maine’s largest healthcare system informed still-living patients of their own deaths
More than 500 people received letters from MaineHealth expressing condolences and providing estate instructions
Maine’s largest healthcare system accidentally sent condolence letters to more than 500 living patients in effect informing them that they had died.
MaineHealth attributed the blunder to a computer system error and apologized.
Continue reading...Ukraine’s Zelenskyy calls on Hungary’s Orban to stop blocking EU bid
EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos praises Ukraine for combatting corruption but warns there is more work to do.
Bosnia’s top court upholds political ban on Bosnian Serb leader Dodik
Constitutional Court rejects Milorad Dodik's appeal, saying the ex-president's right to a fair trial was not violated.
Police investigate four knife incidents possibly linked to Cambridgeshire train attack
Questions mount for officers as Anthony Williams, 32, appears in court on charges of attempted murder
Police investigating the mass stabbing on a high-speed train in Cambridgeshire are examining four knife incidents alleged to have taken place hours before Saturday evening’s attacks.
Questions mounted for police as Anthony Williams, 32, appeared in court on Monday on a series of attempted murder charges related to two stabbing incidents.
Continue reading...Dick Cheney’s role in ‘war on terror’ may have paved way for Trumpism
Former US vice-president a key figure in expanding White House’s power and ‘corrupting the intelligence-policy relationship’ to sell Iraq war
Dick Cheney, who has died aged 84, came to be seen as a moderate in his later years for his staunch opposition to Donald Trump, but he also stands accused of paving the way for Trumpism by undermining the independence of the intelligence agencies and US adherence to international law.
As George W Bush’s second-in-command in the “war on terror” declared after the 9/11 attacks, Cheney made himself one of the most powerful vice-presidents in US history, and was a key protagonist in the push to invade Iraq, as well as the use of torture on suspected al-Qaida members detained without charge in the CIA’s offshore “black sites”.
Continue reading...Zelensky visits troops near embattled front line town of Pokrovsk
Fierce battles are taking place in the Donetsk town that Russia has been trying to occupy for over a year.
Zelensky visits troops near embattled front line town of Pokrovsk
Fierce battles are taking place in the Donetsk town that Russia has been trying to occupy for over a year.
The Maldives bans smoking for everyone born after 2006 – The Washington Post
- The Maldives bans smoking for everyone born after 2006 The Washington Post
- Smoking banned for entire generation under sweeping new national law Fox News
- Maldives becomes the first country to impose a generational ban on smoking NBC News
- Maldives becomes the only country with generational smoking ban The Guardian
- Maldives bans smoking for younger generations BBC
China slams Netherlands for chip supply snarls tied to Nexperia
A dispute between Amsterdam and Beijing over technology transfer has held up chip supplies to car manufacturers.
RMT accepts three-year pay deal for London Underground staff
Agreement that will increase drivers’ pay to nearly £80,000 by 2027 comes after strike action in September
The RMT union has accepted a three-year inflation-plus pay deal for London Underground workers, ending the dispute that led to travel chaos in London in September and increasing drivers’ pay to nearly £80,000 by 2027.
The deal, with an initial 3.4% increase backdated to this April, means London Underground staff pay will rise in line with RPI inflation – higher than the CPI rate normally used for index-linked pay rises – with guaranteed minimum rates if inflation falls, making the total deal worth at least 9.2%.
Continue reading...Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic
The semi-submersible vessel was bound for various European countries, officials say.
Sudan civil war spiralling out of control, UN secretary general says
António Guterres calls for the violence to end but there appears little appetite for ceasefire proposed by US
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said the war in Sudan is spiralling out of control as he called for a halt to the fighting and an end to the violence.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates, seized El Fasher in Darfur last week after a near 18-month siege. Some of its soldiers have posted videos of civilians being shot, including in the town’s maternity hospital.
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