Sri Lanka’s new president dissolves parliament
Anura Kumara Dissanayake calls a general election, dissolving the parliament where his party only holds three seats.
Maldives leader says Israel must be held to account for ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Mohamed Muizzu also tells the UNGA that Israel is targeting journalists to cover up its 'crimes' in Gaza and Lebanon.
Donald Trump faces citizen criminal charges over false claims about Haitian immigrants – live
Community in Springfield, Ohio, says it is using private-citizen right to file charges after Trump and Vance repeatedly make false claims about pets being eaten
Minutes after Joe Biden finished addressing the UN general assembly, Donald Trump’s campaign released a statement warning, in apocalyptic terms, of the consequences of electing Kamala Harris.
“Under President Donald J Trump, Iran was weak, ISIS was eliminated, Hamas was cut off, historic peace was descending on the Middle East, Russia was under control and there hadn’t been a US service member killed in Afghanistan in 18 months,” the lengthy email read.
Continue reading...Iran’s president tells UN Israel’s ‘terrorism in Lebanon cannot go unanswered’ – The Times of Israel
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- Another Country Threatens to Join War as Middle East Crisis Explodes The Daily Beast
- Video: Iran, Hezbollah’s sponsor, reacts to Israel’s strikes on the militant group CNN
- Live: Updates From UN General Assembly Bloomberg
- Iran: Israeli state terrorism in Lebanon cannot go unanswered The Jerusalem Post
Turkey’s Erdoğan compares Israel’s Netanyahu to Hitler at UN assembly – POLITICO Europe
- Turkey’s Erdoğan compares Israel’s Netanyahu to Hitler at UN assembly POLITICO Europe
- Turkey's Erdogan says UN, Western values dying in Gaza Reuters
- Turkey’s president accuses Israel of carrying out ‘a clear genocide’ The Associated Press
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- Turkey’s President Erdogan says UN and Western values are ‘dying’ in Gaza Al Jazeera English
Palestinian child mourns father killed by Israeli strike
“Oh God, I have no one but him.” A young Palestinian boy mourned his father who was killed by an Israeli air attack.
Biden struggles to contain conflict as Israel and Hezbollah on the brink
As the US president called for restraint in a speech at the UN, Israel's leader vowed to continue striking Hezbollah.
Keep the faith, Starmer urges as he vows to build ‘a new Britain’
PM tells Labour conference he will not con people with false hope but says difficult trade-offs will help bring ‘national renewal’
Britain can become a country of pride, wealth and stability if the public accepts a series of difficult “trade-offs”, rejects nimbyism and sees through the Conservatives’ populist “lies”, Keir Starmer has said.
In his first Labour conference speech as prime minister, he urged the public to keep faith amid difficult and sometimes unpopular choices made by the government, telling them he understood their impatience for real change.
Continue reading...Brummies celebrate inaugural International Day of Birmingham
Comedian Joe Lycett declares United States of Birmingham with 10 US towns and cities that share the name
Residents of Birmingham often admit the city is not accustomed to blowing its own trumpet – still maligned and mocked by others, it tends to favour self-deprecating humour.
So the launch of the inaugural International Day of Birmingham (IDOB), celebrated with cheerleaders, confetti cannon and actual trumpets, is not what you would expect to see on a walk through the city centre on a Tuesday afternoon.
Continue reading...‘Can’t afford health insurance’: California CVS workers take strike vote
More than 7,000 workers to hold strike vote this week amid accusations of staff shortages and expensive healthcare
More than 7,000 workers at CVS stores across California are holding a strike vote this week after accusing the US’s largest pharmacy chain of shortchanging staff and failing to provide affordable healthcare.
CVS and its union remain far apart in negotiations on a new contract. Their current union contract expired on 30 June 2024.
Continue reading...Starmer needs the public’s trust to be able to make the hard choices to come
Labour needs voters to believe politics can make their lives better not that politicians are all the same, hence why the donations row was so damaging
When Keir Starmer wanted to inject a moment of levity into his first speech as prime minister at the Labour conference, he told a story about visiting a holiday cottage in the Lake District where the owner joked about wanting to push him down the stairs.
As lighter moments go, it had a dark edge. It is British humour, of course, but there is a reason it made an impression on Starmer – it’s a microcosm of what he and his closest advisers see as their greatest threat: the cynicism and disdain with which ordinary people view politicians. The view that they are all the same, all on the take. The widespread lack of trust that politics can make lives better.
Continue reading...Qatari leader condemns ‘blatant aggression’ against Palestinians
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has called Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide.
Parents of babies attacked by Letby ‘kept in the dark’, inquiry told
One mother told Thirlwall inquiry she was unaware for six years anything had happened
Parents of babies attacked by Lucy Letby were not told their children had suffered life-threatening collapses until they were contacted by the police years later, an inquiry has heard.
The parents of one newborn boy said it was “disgusting” they were “kept in the dark” by staff at the Countess of Chester hospital after their son’s health suffered a serious deterioration in June 2016.
Continue reading...Three killed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv as Russia bombs an apartment block
Attack launched as world leaders, including Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, gather in New York for the UN General Assembly.
Winter fuel: thousands more could lose benefit if it becomes means tested, data suggests
A further 175,000 pensioners are likely to stop receiving allowance under such plans, official figures show
A further 175,000 pensioners could lose the winter fuel allowance if the benefit becomes means tested, data suggests.
About 11.6 million people in the UK received the benefit last winter, an increase of 214,000 on the previous year, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The overwhelming majority are to have this removed this winter under plans announced by the Labour government to cut spending on the benefit.
Continue reading...CrowdStrike to apologize for global IT outage in congressional testimony
Faulty update from cybersecurity company ground hospitals, airports and payment systems to halt in July
A CrowdStrike senior executive will apologize for causing a global software outage that ground the operations of hospitals, airports, payment systems and personal computers around the world to a halt in July.
Adam Meyers, senior vice-president for counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, is slated to testify before Congress on Tuesday. Meyers will speak to the House homeland security cybersecurity and infrastructure protection subcommittee. In testimony made available before the hearing, he wrote: “I am here today because, just over two months ago, on July 19, we let our customers down … On behalf of everyone at CrowdStrike, I want to apologize.” He will say the company has undertaken “a full review of our systems” to prevent the cascade of errors from occurring again.
Continue reading...Labour’s benefit fraud crackdown would allow officials to access bank accounts
Proposals will require financial institutions to share data that may help identify scammers
Labour has promised to crack down on benefit fraud by reintroducing “snooper’s charter” proposals mooted under the last government that would allow welfare officials to request information from claimants’ bank accounts.
A fraud, error and debt bill will require banks and other financial institutions to share data that may help identify benefit fraud as part of a package of measures designed to “catch fraudsters faster” and save £1.6bn over five years.
Continue reading...‘Values of the West are dying’ in Gaza, says Erdogan
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the UN and the “values of the West are dying” in Gaza.
New species of invasive flatworm discovered in three southern US states
Amaga pseudobama was first spotted in 2020 in North Carolina and has now spread to Florida and Georgia
A new species of invasive flatworm has been discovered in the United States and has been found in several states in the south, according to a new paper.
The species, named Amaga pseudobama, was discovered by an international team of researchers and first spotted in 2020 in North Carolina. It is thought to be native to South America.
Continue reading...Israel escalation based on risky belief it can bomb Hezbollah into a ceasefire
With no diplomatic ‘off-ramp’ the stage is set for more strikes and counter-strikes from an opponent unlikely to bend the knee
It is now clear that last Tuesday’s exploding pager operation was just a first step. What is now unfolding is an Israeli strategy of military escalation against Hezbollah, premised on the risky belief that the militant group can be bombed into a ceasefire before fighting in Gaza ends.
Monday’s wave of airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 558 people and displaced many thousands, and there is little sign of the campaign slowing. Israel’s air force has said it had dropped 2,000 bombs in 24 hours – and there can be little doubt that this is now a full-on war, though it is not yet an all-out conflict.
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