‘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

  1. Green Party MP wants to make sure it is 'not vulnerable to extremists'  BBC
  2. Greens must avoid ‘capture by extremists and racists’, says party MP  The Guardian
  3. Britain’s Greens are now a hard-left, antisemitic party  The Economist
  4. The flag that gives moral licence to hatred  The Times
  5. Green Waveney Valley MP urges Polanski to tackle Zionism crisis  BBC
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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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Inside the protest playbook to vilify Israel on ‘global day of action’ – Fox News

  1. Inside the protest playbook to vilify Israel on 'global day of action'  Fox News
  2. No Redemption for Genocide: PYM on the road ahead  Mondoweiss
  3. How Israel’s genocide in Gaza pulled Britons into the Palestine movement  Al Jazeera
  4. 60 countries participate in historic Global Day of Action for Palestine  Middle East Monitor
  5. Three-day global solidarity campaign calls for ending Gaza genocide and Israeli occupation  خبرگزاری بین المللی قدس
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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.

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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.

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France is devouring itself as school riots reveal a crisis far bigger than broken classrooms – Fox News

  1. France is devouring itself as school riots reveal a crisis far bigger than broken classrooms  Fox News
  2. The School Near Paris That Shows Why French Students Are Protesting  The New York Times
  3. French policing under scrutiny as student protest injuries mount  Reuters
  4. The French Student Protesters’ Demands Are Extremely Clear  The New Yorker
  5. The week in 30 photos  CNN
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Photos: What a year of ceasefire in Gaza looks like – NPR

  1. Photos: What a year of ceasefire in Gaza looks like  NPR
  2. In three years, Israel's war on Gaza hasn't just changed the Middle East, it's changed the world | Steve Bloomfield  The Guardian
  3. A U.S.-brokered ceasefire was supposed to end the war in Gaza. A year later, progress has stalled  Los Angeles Times
  4. 'The Trump plan changed nothing': One year later, Gaza still lives in ruins, under bombs  Le Monde.fr
  5. One year on, Gaza ceasefire exists ‘in name only,’ aid groups say amid near-daily Israeli strikes  NBC News
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