NAZA Is a Jump-the-Shark Moment for Israel’s Critics – Commentary Magazine

  1. NAZA Is a Jump-the-Shark Moment for Israel’s Critics  Commentary Magazine
  2. Opinion | Hostages Like Me Were Also ‘NAZA’—Collateral Damage  WSJ
  3. 'NAZA' film controversy: Israel, Gaza, and the debate over collateral damage - opinion  The Jerusalem Post
  4. Rebutting ‘NAZA,’ freed hostage says he knows what it’s like ‘to be collateral damage’  The Times of Israel
  5. In the hunt for Hamas, computers decide who lives or dies  The Telegraph
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Mirroring Trump, Allies Are Expected to Label Latin American Cartels ‘Terrorists’ at U.N.G.A. – The New York Times

  1. Mirroring Trump, Allies Are Expected to Label Latin American Cartels ‘Terrorists’ at U.N.G.A.  The New York Times
  2. Trump pledges 'unmatched military might' against drug cartels  Reuters
  3. Trump’s U.N. Address Offers a Doctrine of Peace Through Force  Time Magazine
  4. Trump flexes 'American power' on UN's biggest stage  CBC
  5. Trump rallies Latin American allies against drug cartels  aljazeera.com
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Man’s metal detector wouldn’t stop beeping, leading to record-breaking trove of ancient Roman coins – CBS News

  1. Man's metal detector wouldn't stop beeping, leading to record-breaking trove of ancient Roman coins  CBS News
  2. Amateur archaeologist finds Germany’s biggest hoard of ancient Roman silver coins  AP News
  3. Germany's largest-ever trove of Roman coins unearthed  DW.com
  4. 'There was something bigger in the ground here': Metal detectorist in Germany discovers giant Roman-era hoard from time of emperor Hadrian  Live Science
  5. AP Trending SummaryBrief at 5:05 p.m. EDT  Ottumwa Courier
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U.N. Leader Uses Final Speech to Issue Stark Warning – The New York Times

  1. U.N. Leader Uses Final Speech to Issue Stark Warning  The New York Times
  2. Secretary-General of the United Nations  Welcome to the United Nations
  3. Middle East crisis: Trump says Iran will make a deal after US midterms – as it happened  theguardian.com
  4. UN leaders' meeting convenes with secretary-general calling for 'world built on interdependence'  AP News
  5. State of world getting worse as UN Security Council paralysed: Guterres  Al Jazeera
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Davey says far right in Britain now better funded and supported than in the past – UK politics live

Lib Dem leader tells party conference that ‘something big and dangerous is happening in our country’

If Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump later (which he doesn’t), he could bring along a copy of today’s Financial Times. This front page headline speaks for itself.

Mortgages ‘on the front line’ as Iran war deals £840 blow to homeowners

British homeowners are paying an average of £840 a year more when they refinance their mortgages, as the rising borrowing costs triggered by the Iran war start to impact consumers’ spending power.

Approximately 1m households have rolled off fixed-rate mortgage deals since February, according to Bank of England data.

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UK borrows £18bn in August, putting pressure on Healey before budget

Some economists say it is now ‘inevitable’ that chancellor will need to raise taxes in the budget next month

The UK government borrowed a higher-than-expected £18.3bn last month, increasing the pressure on John Healey as he attempts to calm jittery bond markets before next month’s budget.

Some economists said it was “inevitable” that the chancellor would need to raise taxes on 28 October if he is to meet demands for extra spending on defence without further borrowing investors on international money markets.

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Up to 169 killed in Yemen as Houthis battle for strategic Red Sea heights

Thousands flee fighting as Iran-aligned group seeks to consolidate territorial gains against Saudi-backed government forces

As many as 169 people have been reportedly killed in Yemen in the last three days as Iran-aligned Houthis battle Saudi-backed government forces for control of strategic heights on the Red Sea coast, while thousands flee the violence.

Houthi military officials said at least 118 people had been killed in clashes, as well as Saudi air and artillery strikes on Taiz, al-Jawf, Marib and Saada provinces since Sunday, Agence France-Presse reported. Yemeni government sources have said at least 36 people have been killed on their side of the conflict.

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‘The fault lines in our world are widening’, António Guterres warns as world leaders gather for UN General Assembly – live updates

The UN secretary-general said the world must work together to solve problems in final major assembly address as secretary general

Tehran appears to have relaxed its preconditions for reopening the strait of Hormuz, saying it is prepared to do so within seven days so long as the US takes reciprocal steps to ease the pressure on Iran.

Previously Iran had set seven onerous pre-conditions for lifting the blockade including “an end to war on all fronts” and a commitment by the US to cease all aggressive actions against Iran including sanctions.

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Court quashes 1976 convictions over link to corrupt London police officer

Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs, who died in 2004, exonerated of mailbag theft after new evidence emerged

Two men have had theft convictions quashed at the court of appeal half a century after they were wrongfully arrested because of a corrupt police officer, although one did not live to see his exoneration.

Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs were 21 and 18 respectively when they were convicted in 1976 of taking 13 mailbags from a wagon in Clapham goods yard in London.

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