Israeli Military Forces Kill at Least 5 Palestinians Despite Ceasefire Agreement – Democracy Now!

  1. Israeli Military Forces Kill at Least 5 Palestinians Despite Ceasefire Agreement  Democracy Now!
  2. Updates: Israel kills at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire  Al Jazeera
  3. Israeli troops 'open fire' on suspects who approached soldiers in northern Gaza  Fox News
  4. IDF Fires at Gazans ‘Who Crossed the Yellow Line’ During Ceasefire  Newsweek
  5. Israel says it opens fire on suspects in Gaza, local authorities report six killed  Reuters
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US revokes visas of at least 50 Mexican officials in Trump’s drug cartel crackdown

The administration’s sweeping visa cancellations extend to Mexico’s political elite, alarming allies and rivals alike

The US government has revoked the visas of at least 50 politicians and government officials in Mexico amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on drug cartels and their suspected political allies, according to two Mexican officials.

The move has sent quiet shock waves through Mexico’s political elite, who regularly travel to the US. It also marks a significant broadening of US anti-narcotics action, with the Trump administration targeting active politicians usually seen as too diplomatically sensitive.

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Starmer says he expects debate about ‘full horror’ of what happened in Gaza when media allowed in – UK politics live

PM hails Trump’s part in Middle East peace deal but says what matters now is implementation

Europe’s most senior human rights official has called on Shabana Mahmood to review UK protest laws after mass arrests over the ban on Palestine Action, Rajeev Syal reports.

The Commons authorities have confirmed that there will be two statements in the chamber after 12.30pm: first, Keir Starmer on the Middle East peace summit, and then Hilary Benn, the Northern Ireland secretary, on the Northern Ireland Troubles bill being published today.

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Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds

One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-ten chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it was a nine-in-ten chance

Reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h would protect cyclists from danger and make riding less stressful while not causing traffic delays for cars, according to new research.

Researchers from RMIT University rated traffic stress levels for every road in greater Melbourne and modelled the effect of lower speed limits on bicycle and car travel.

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Sustainability professor’s talk at UK party conferences cancelled

Academic told panel did not want dissenting view about value of North Sea oil and gas to UK economy

A prominent sustainability professor had events cancelled at Labour and Conservative conferences after hosts of a panel he was on said they did not want his views on oil and gas aired in front of MPs.

Prof Matthew Agarwala spoke on the fringe at Lib Dem conference for the panel organised by Total Politics but was then pulled from similar panels at subsequent Labour and Conservative conferences.

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Afghan man jailed for five years for TikTok threat to kill Nigel Farage

Fayaz Khan, 26, was also sentenced at Southwark crown court for entering the UK illegally on a small boat

A man who threatened on TikTok to kill the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, has been jailed for five years.

Fayaz Khan, an Afghan national whose real name is believed to be Fayaz Husseini, made the threat last October in a video that Farage and a high court judge described as “pretty chilling”.

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‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Entire offices erased at health agency in Friday move before Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error

More than a thousand employees at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received notice that they were losing their jobs on Friday in a move that erased entire offices and was partially reversed over the weekend.

It caused “instability and whiplash”, said Debra Houry, former chief medical officer at the CDC.

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What Would It Cost to Rebuild Gaza? – The New York Times

  1. What Would It Cost to Rebuild Gaza?  The New York Times
  2. ‘Another Nakba’: UN expert says Gaza recovery will take generations  Al Jazeera
  3. UN says countries are willing to help fund Gaza's $70 bln reconstruction  Reuters
  4. A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved  WIRED
  5. Gaza will be in the shadow of famine as long as we cannot plant our land  Al Jazeera
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Tennessee authorities identify 16 people killed in blast at explosive plant

Local pastor among victims of huge explosion in rural area where ‘everybody knows each other’

Authorities on Monday identified the 16 people killed in a devastating blast at a rural Tennessee explosives plant on 10 October, as investigators promised a painstaking process to figure out what happened by tracking down pieces of evidence that may now be miles apart.

At a news conference, Chris Davis, the sheriff of Humphreys county, said people in the tight-knit community probably at least knew relatives of the victims killed in the explosion at the plant owned by Accurate Energetic Systems. The company supplies and researches explosives for the military and is a well-known employer in the area.

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Four people arrested after shooting in Mississippi town that left six dead

Three charged with murder and one with attempted murder following shooting in Leland after school football game

Three people have been arrested on murder charges – and a fourth person on an attempted murder charge – in a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town, the FBI announced on Monday.

Teviyon L Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, have been charged with capital murder, while Latoya A Powell, 44, has been charged with attempted murder in the mass shooting, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Jackson field office said.

Guardian staff contributed reporting

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Tesco steps up UK sales as Asda struggles amid rising inflation

Marks & Spencer bounces back from cyber-attack as it extends contract of chair Archie Norman

Tesco has grabbed a bigger slice of Britons’ supermarket shopping, as it stepped up sales and market share, while its rival Asda continued to struggle amid rising grocery inflation.

The UK’s biggest supermarket increased its market share to 28.3% in the 12 weeks to 5 October, up 0.7 percentage points on a year earlier, while its sales advanced nearly 7%, according to Worldpanel by Numerator.

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China says it will ‘fight to end’ after US said it was trying to hurt world economy

Commerce ministry says US is ‘threatening to intimidate’ with plans for new Trump tariffs on exports

China has hit back at accusations from the US that it is trying to hurt the world economy, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies appeared to re-escalate, amped up by aggressive rhetoric on both sides.

China’s commerce ministry said on Tuesday that the US was “threatening to intimidate” with the prospect of new tariffs on Chinese exports, “which is not the right way to get along with China”. Its spokesperson said that China would “fight to the end” in trade talks.

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Trump has smashed the Gaza consensus Diplomatic orthodoxies were ignored – UnHerd

  1. Trump has smashed the Gaza consensus Diplomatic orthodoxies were ignored  UnHerd
  2. What Donald Trump gets right in the Middle East  The Economist
  3. To Democrats, Trump is Hitler. To Israel, the president's a hero. What gives? | Opinion  USA Today
  4. Trump’s role in halting Gaza’s suffering was driven by self-interest. Will that be enough for him to finish the job?  The Guardian
  5. “Does Trump Deserve Credit for the Ceasefire?” Is the Wrong Question  Washington Monthly
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