One dead and three injured in Lithuania cargo jet crash
The Boeing 737 crashed near a house as it was making its final approach for landing, local authorities say.
Four dead in violence over mosque survey in Indian city
Clashes broke out between protesters and the police during a court-monitored survey of a Centuries-old mosque.
Child dies after being found unresponsive in a vehicle in north Queensland
Police are investigating after the child died in Innisfail on Monday
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A child has died after being found unresponsive in a vehicle in north Queensland.
Police officers were called to a vehicle in Innisfail about 1pm on Monday after reports a child had been found unresponsive.
Continue reading...Fire ant rafts could float down Queensland river after recent heavy rains, expert warns
Growing infestations along the Logan river pose ‘very high risk’ of spreading downstream, Invasive Species Council says
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An increase in fire ant infestations along Queensland’s Logan River is raising concerns Australia’s worst invasive species could form floating rafts and spread downstream.
The Invasive Species Council advocacy manager, Reece Pianta, said governments should urgently ramp up eradication efforts along the Logan River, in south-east Queensland.
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Continue reading...Australian police offer to help Laos investigation into suspected methanol deaths as Melbourne teenagers mourned
Prime minister pays tribute to Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles while families vow to turn tragedy into ‘mission for change’
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Australian federal police have offered to help the Laos investigation into multiple deaths linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning event.
Melburnians Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, both 19, were among six foreign tourists to die.
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Continue reading...Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale as ‘act of resistance and survival’
Project involves showing work in Gaza but also sending works across Israeli siege lines for exhibiting worldwide
Palestinian artists in Gaza plan to stage a “biennale” exhibition as an act of defiance against Israel’s military onslaught and to focus attention on the plight of the territory’s 2.3 million people under more than 13 months of bombardment.
About 50 artists from Gaza will exhibit their work within the besieged coastal strip, and are looking for art galleries to host exhibitions overseas. But in order to hold their work to the eyes of the rest of the world, the artists are facing a unique challenge: how to get their art across Israeli siege lines.
Continue reading...Turkish woman convicted under anti-terror laws for sharing Guardian article
Peri Pamir given suspended sentence after posting article about UK woman killed fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria
A Turkish woman who shared a Guardian article on social media about a British woman killed fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria has described how she was twice convicted of “sharing terrorist propaganda” in an Istanbul court.
“I am basically just an ordinary citizen, there is no reason why I should attract any special attention. This is the disturbing part,” said Peri Pamir, a 71-year-old retired researcher.
Continue reading...Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate becomes country’s new president – NPR
- Uruguay's leftist opposition candidate becomes country's new president NPR
- Uruguay’s Center Left Reclaims Power in Presidential Election The New York Times
- Who is Yamandu Orsi, Uruguay’s next president? Al Jazeera English
- Is Uruguay too stable for its own good? The Economist
- Uruguay ousts conservative government, elects leftist opposition candidate as turnout hits 90 percent Fox News
Hezbollah fires barrage of rockets into Israel after strikes on Beirut
Heavy attack launched in wake of deadly strikes on Beirut, and comes as talks for a ceasefire and hostage release deal have stalled
Hezbollah has fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, wounding seven people in one of the militant group’s heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with ceasefire efforts to halt the all-out war.
Some of the rockets fired on Sunday reached the Tel Aviv area in the heart of Israel.
Continue reading...Revealed: Israel used US weapons in strike that killed journalists
Killing of journalists in Israeli strike could be war crime, legal experts say after Guardian investigation
A Guardian investigation has found that Israel used a US munition to target and kill three journalists and wound three more in a 25 October attack in south Lebanon which legal experts have called a potential war crime.
On 25 October at 3.19am, an Israeli jet shot two bombs at a chalet hosting three journalists – cameraman Ghassan Najjar and technician Mohammad Reda from pro-Hezbollah outlet al-Mayadeen, as well as cameraman Wissam Qassem from the Hezbollah-affiliated outlet al-Manar.
Continue reading...What happened when a city started accepting – not evicting – homeless camps
Faced with a housing and homelessness crisis, Halifax has set aside city sites for people to live in tents. Not everyone is behind the plan.
Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten by security camera – The Associated Press
- Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten by security camera The Associated Press
- The weasel took my shoe, and other adventures in parenting Deseret News
- Police track down unlikely shoe thief from Japanese kindergarten The Guardian
- Paws up! Police find shoe thief at a kindergarten is actually a weasel. The Washington Post
- Cameras installed at Japan day care after shoe thefts uncover unexpected culprit - The Mainichi The Mainichi
Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday
Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis
Thousands of Amazon workers are expected to protest or strike in more than 20 countries during Black Friday to press for better workers’ rights and climate action from the US retailer..
Workers and representatives from unions and workers’ groups intend to join protests against the Seattle-based company’s practices between Black Friday and Cyber Monday (29 November and 2 December), one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year.
Continue reading...Hezbollah fires rocket barrages into Israel after deadly Beirut strikes
It is one of the heaviest bombardments of Israel since fighting intensified in Lebanon in September.
Drone footage shows huge fire engulfing Manila shanty town
Around 1,000 houses were destroyed in the blaze, officials say, months after a similar incident in the Philippine capital.
Uruguay election: opposition centre-left figure Yamandu Orsi wins presidential runoff
Former history teacher says the ‘horizon is brightening’ as all political rivals pledged to work together to move the country forward
Centre-left opposition candidate Yamandu Orsi secured victory in Uruguay’s presidential election, official results showed on Sunday, with 97% of votes tallied, ousting the conservative governing coalition and making the South American nation the latest to rebuke the incumbent party in a year of landmark elections.
Yamandu Orsi, the pre-election favourite by a few points, secured 49.77% of the vote to conservative Alvaro Delgado’s 45.94%, official results showed.
Continue reading...Live briefing: Director of one of last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza is injured – The Washington Post
- Live briefing: Director of one of last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza is injured The Washington Post
- Israel Has Killed Over 1,000 Doctors and Nurses in Gaza Common Dreams
- During offensive, IDF transfers patients from north Gaza hospital to safer areas The Times of Israel
- Director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital injured in attack Al Jazeera English
- Israeli Strikes Kill More Than 120 Palestinians in Gaza in Past 48 Hours, Damage Hospital Haaretz
Beijing orders investigations into local disputes after spate of deadly attacks
Mass stabbings and car rammings have prompted soul-searching about the state of society
Beijing is ramping up scrutiny of “common” disputes such as those involving marriages and property, the justice ministry said, as the public reels from a recent string of deadly attacks.
China has witnessed a spate of violent incidents in recent months – from mass stabbings to car rammings – a rare development for a country with a proud reputation for public security.
Continue reading...Israel and Lebanon on cusp of ceasefire deal, officials say – Axios
- Israel and Lebanon on cusp of ceasefire deal, officials say Axios
- Ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah is ‘very close,’ regional source says, as Lebanon death toll climbs CNN
- Report: Israel agreed in principle to Hezbollah truce, Netanyahu now working on how to present it to the public The Times of Israel
- Israel moving towards deal with Lebanon The Jerusalem Post
- The US says it wants a ceasefire in Lebanon, so what’s the hold-up? Al Jazeera English
‘Pregnant’ for 15 months: Inside the ‘miracle’ fertility scam
Women in Nigeria desperate to conceive are drawn into a disturbing scam involving trafficked babies.