‘Cockroach’ leader among thousands detained in Delhi protest crackdown
Authorities impose strict lockdown in capital to try to stop rally against removal of 130m names from electoral roll
Indian authorities have placed Delhi under a severe lockdown and detained tens of thousands of people, including the leader of the youth-led “Cockroach” movement, in an attempt to stop an anti-government protest.
Thousands of people from across India were blocked from attending the demonstration, which had been called by the “Cockroach Janata party” (CJP) to protest against an exercise that has stripped 130m names from India’s electoral roll.
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Green Party MP wants to make sure it is ‘not vulnerable to extremists’ – BBC
- Green Party MP wants to make sure it is 'not vulnerable to extremists' BBC
- Greens must avoid ‘capture by extremists and racists’, says party MP The Guardian
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- Green Waveney Valley MP urges Polanski to tackle Zionism crisis BBC
Dozens injured and buildings damaged as tornadoes hit Sicily
Marsala on island’s west coast badly affected after powerful storm approached from Mediterranean
Two tornadoes have struck the coastal town of Marsala in western Sicily, injuring dozens of people, damaging buildings including a school, and overturning cars.
A series of videos began to circulate on Friday morning showing two waterspouts approaching the Sicilian town from the sea as people braced for their arrival.
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- Candidate named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru The Guardian
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- Man named Hitler Mussolini wins mayoral race in Peru The Times of Israel
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- Man named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru BBC
Inside the protest playbook to vilify Israel on ‘global day of action’ – Fox News
- Inside the protest playbook to vilify Israel on 'global day of action' Fox News
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- How Israel’s genocide in Gaza pulled Britons into the Palestine movement Al Jazeera
- 60 countries participate in historic Global Day of Action for Palestine Middle East Monitor
- Three-day global solidarity campaign calls for ending Gaza genocide and Israeli occupation خبرگزاری بین المللی قدس
Chile declares Las Condes disaster zone after mudslide
Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute
George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field
The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice and must develop its own versions of the technology, according to the head of the Alan Turing Institute.
The country needs a stronger domestic position in AI in response to the US and China’s runaway leadership in the field, with “national resilience” a key focus for ATI said George Williamson.
Continue reading...Suicide memorial in Chicago signals compassionate shift by Catholic church
First US memorial for suicide victims dedicated by Chicago archdiocese earlier this year at Queen of Heaven cemetery
The Chicago archdiocese has recognized the Rev Charles Rubey’s work supporting families whose loved ones died by suicide this year by dedicating in his honor a memorial to the lives lost to suicide and the victims’ surviving families.
In 1979 Rubey founded the Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide, a counseling and support program run by Catholic Charities of the archdiocese of Chicago.
Continue reading...France is devouring itself as school riots reveal a crisis far bigger than broken classrooms – Fox News
- France is devouring itself as school riots reveal a crisis far bigger than broken classrooms Fox News
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- French policing under scrutiny as student protest injuries mount Reuters
- The French Student Protesters’ Demands Are Extremely Clear The New Yorker
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Suspect killed after 13 kindergarteners taken hostage, beaten in Brazil
A year after the ‘ceasefire’, Gaza’s healthcare is still collapsing
Journalist Hamurabi Huesca Manzano killed in Mexico’s Oaxaca
Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago – why are they resuming now?
Brazil police rescue 13 children taken hostage at kindergarten
Photos: What a year of ceasefire in Gaza looks like – NPR
- Photos: What a year of ceasefire in Gaza looks like NPR
- In three years, Israel's war on Gaza hasn't just changed the Middle East, it's changed the world | Steve Bloomfield The Guardian
- A U.S.-brokered ceasefire was supposed to end the war in Gaza. A year later, progress has stalled Los Angeles Times
- 'The Trump plan changed nothing': One year later, Gaza still lives in ruins, under bombs Le Monde.fr
- One year on, Gaza ceasefire exists ‘in name only,’ aid groups say amid near-daily Israeli strikes NBC News