Journalist covering security issues shot dead near his home in Mexico – CBS News

  1. Journalist covering security issues shot dead near his home in Mexico  CBS News
  2. Mexico: Sixth journalist killed in 2026, government must urgently address violence against the press  RSF
  3. Mexican journalist Josué Martínez shot dead in Puebla, fourth killed in over a month  Committee to Protect Journalists
  4. Press freedom groups rip Sheinbaum after latest journalist murder  Courthouse News
  5. Mexican journalist murdered after reporting on security issues  tag24.com
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Democrats criticize Trump’s claims of election interference – US politics live

Virginia’s Mark Warner says speech was ‘just lies and long-debunked conspiracies’

Several major networks declined to air Donald Trump’s primetime televised address on Thursday, citing concerns that the content could be politically partisan or inflammatory.

CNN, ABC and NBC chose not to air the speech live, but CBS, Fox News and MS Now (formerly MSNBC) aired at least large portions of the speech live. Some ABC station station affiliates – including the Washington DC station owned by right-leaning broadcaster Sinclair – also chose to air the speech.

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Burnham to say his government will be ‘unashamedly Labour’ in first speech as party leader – UK politics live

‘Special conference’ to take place at noon where Burnham will be formally announced as Labour leader

It looks as if Keir Starmer has started moving out. A removals van has been seen at the back of Downing Street.

The Telegraph live blog is normally a pretty good read (although not as good as ours, obviously). But today Andy Burnham may want to give it a miss. At the Telegraph they don’t seem very enthusiastic about a Burnham premiership, and here is a selection of the blog headlines: ‘Burnham is coming for your home’; Burnham could crash the economy, claims Truss; Burnham accused of ‘waving away’ scrutiny on path to power; ‘Burnham is already a global laughing stock’.

The new Labour leader will say that ‘Britain took a series of wrong turns in the 1980s’ when ‘political power was centralised and economic power privatised’. To build an economy and a country that works for all people and places, Andy will say that it requires ‘a new path to the one we’ve been on for the last 40 years’.

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Knesset dissolves: How will Israel vote in October’s general election? – Al Jazeera

  1. Knesset dissolves: How will Israel vote in October’s general election?  Al Jazeera
  2. Israeli Government Pushes Through Divisive Laws Before Election  The New York Times
  3. Israel’s parliament dissolves ahead of Oct. 27 elections  AP News
  4. Coalition’s ‘legislative blitz’ is designed to shore-up, unshackle right-wing power  The Times of Israel
  5. Netanyahu's coalition falls to 48 seats, opposition gets 62 seats after legislative blitz - poll  The Jerusalem Post
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Has Ukraine’s Zelenskyy created a rival by sacking his defence minister? – Al Jazeera

  1. Has Ukraine’s Zelenskyy created a rival by sacking his defence minister?  Al Jazeera
  2. Ukraine Was on a Roll. Then a Clash Over War Strategy Exploded Into View.  The New York Times
  3. Russian strikes kill 4 in Ukraine as Zelenskyy’s defense shake-up sparks anger  AP News
  4. Political crisis and protests in Ukraine as Zelenskyy defends sacking defence minister  The Guardian
  5. Russia is the only winner from Ukraine's internal war as Zelenskyy backs General Syrskyi over Mykhailo Fedorov  Sky News
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ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown

Arrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution

A Chinese human rights lawyer has been arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), raising concerns he could be deported to China where he would face persecution.

Wu Shaoping fled China at the end of 2019 amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers. He travelled to the US on a tourist visa and made an asylum claim in 2020, for which he is still awaiting a decision.

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