At least 160,000 people take to streets in third week of French school protests
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joins teenagers calling for investment to fix teacher shortages and crumbling schools
More than 160,000 schoolchildren, students and trade unionists have marched in cities across France as protests over high school education continued into a third week and many demonstrators denounced policing tactics.
Riot police fired teargas at the end of Tuesday’s marches in Nantes and near the Montparnasse area of Paris, but most of the demonstrations over teacher shortages, overcrowded classes and crumbling school buildings held in cities including Lyon, Lille and Marseille were peaceful.
Continue reading...How a scandal engulfing Brazil’s top court could return the Bolsonaros to power
The judge who helped convict Jair Bolsonaro is caught up in a crisis that could benefit his son and damage Lula
Thundering to a crowd of thousands of far-right supporters in São Paulo on 7 September, Brazil’s Independence Day, the senator Flávio Bolsonaro focused less on his opponent in the presidential election, the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, than on someone who is not running at all.
“Whoever votes for Lula is voting for Alexandre de Moraes,” Bolsonaro shouted, referring to the shaven-headed supreme court justice once described as “Voldemort” by Elon Musk.
Continue reading...Millions of Medicaid recipients to face draconian requirements as of 1 January
Trump’s reform law that seeks to make coverage harder to get, and to keep, includes working 80 hours per month
It is a date keeping US healthcare providers up at night: 1 January 2027.
As the midterm elections loom, everyone from hospital leaders and to patient advocates are focused on the New Year, when Republicans scheduled the most controversial elements of their healthcare reform law to go into effect.
Continue reading...Navi Pillay’s Nobel rewards the Israel genocide lie – Washington Examiner
- Navi Pillay’s Nobel rewards the Israel genocide lie Washington Examiner
- Trump Says He Should Have Won 8 Nobels After Being Snubbed for the Prize The New York Times
- Trump fumes at ‘stain’ on Norway after missing out on Nobel Peace Prize The Washington Post
- Is the Whole World Wrong? Tablet Magazine
- Analysing Africa newsletter: A Nobel and ignoble day for the rule of law The Economist
One year into ceasefire, vexed Gazans say they’re still living like war never ended – The Times of Israel
- One year into ceasefire, vexed Gazans say they’re still living like war never ended The Times of Israel
- Wringing Hope From the Rubble of Gaza The New York Times
- A US-brokered ceasefire was supposed to end the war in Gaza. A year later, progress has stalled AP News
- Palestine weekly: Gaza marks year of ‘ceasefire’ with more Israeli killing Al Jazeera
- Photos: What a year of ceasefire in Gaza looks like NPR
Ex-Chicago detective identified as killing child in 65-year cold case
Police used recently discovered DNA to pin murder of eight-year-old girl on Thomas McInerney, who died in 2006
Chicago police on Monday said they recently used newly discovered DNA evidence to tie the 1960 murder of an eight-year-old girl to one of its own former homicide detectives.
Thomas McInerney had been dead for 20 years by the time authorities issued a statement identifying him as the killer of Gloria Kowalewicz – well after retiring from the Chicago police department (CPD) and two federal public defender’s offices in Nevada where he worked as an investigator.
Continue reading...UK holiday demand may have peaked amid cost of living squeeze, says travel industry
Spain remains most popular destination as Britons book later in hope of better deals, Abta report finds
The UK’s cost of living squeeze means fewer people plan to ringfence money for holidays abroad next year, the travel industry has warned.
Despite war, wildfires and EES border checks, the numbers of Britons taking holidays climbed back to pre-pandemic levels this year – but rising costs may mean the numbers have peaked, according to an annual travel industry report on Tuesday.
Continue reading...11 sailors missing after drone sinks ships in Black Sea – NBC News
- 11 sailors missing after drone sinks ships in Black Sea NBC News
- Eleven sailors missing after drone sinks ship off Bulgaria Reuters
- 11 missing after ships struck off Bulgaria in latest Black Sea attack Inquirer.net
- Bulgarian PM summons Russian ambassador after ship sinks in Black Sea drone attack BBC
- Drones hit ships in Black Sea, sinking 1 and prompting rescue operations, Bulgaria says AP News
Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel kill five people on Mexico’s Pacific coast – The Guardian
- Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel kill five people on Mexico’s Pacific coast The Guardian
- Hurricane Simon lashes Mexico's Pacific coast, pounds resorts and vulnerable towns CBS News
- Storms cause 5 deaths in Mexico as flood risk eases in southwestern US NBC News
- Hurricane Simon crawls along Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing floods and evacuations Reuters
- Severe storms, multiday flood threat target Plains this week Yahoo
Anne Aly reveals she has received 19 death threats in the last week alone
After an opposition MP says she should be ‘shamed and stoned’, the federal minister hits back at ‘racist and misogynistic’ language
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Anne Aly has condemned as “racist” and “misogynistic” comments in parliament calling for her to be “stoned in the square” – while revealing she has received 19 death threats in the last week alone.
The Gold Coast Liberal National MP Angie Bell, the member for Moncrieff, told the House of Representatives that Aly, the small business minister, and the prime minister should be “shamed and stoned in the square” over a decision made by the tax office.
Continue reading...Guatemala teen wakes up in coffin at her own funeral, shocking mourners – New York Post
- Guatemala teen wakes up in coffin at her own funeral, shocking mourners New York Post
- Shock moment teen wakes up at her funeral News.com.au
- Man declares daughter dead in Guatemala, video shows her waking up in coffin 8 hrs later | 'Her father did not take her to a hospital' | Inshorts Inshorts
- Who is Yuleidy Ixcotoyac? The young woman from Guatemala who wakes up inside the coffin at her own wake MARCA
- Questions Raised Over Viral ‘Girl Wakes In Coffin’ Video Tech Business News
The Oct. 7 Attack Changed Israel, but Not Its Politics – The New York Times
- The Oct. 7 Attack Changed Israel, but Not Its Politics The New York Times
- How Will Israelis—and History—Judge Benjamin Netanyahu? The Free Press
- Analysis • Chaos is eating away at Netanyahu's electoral bloc. Can Eisenkot seize the win? Haaretz
- Unless the opposition steps up its game, Netanyahu, the PM of Oct. 7, could yet survive this election The Times of Israel
- Latest poll puts Eisenkot ahead of Netanyahu in Israel PM race Daily Sabah
They Came to Russia for Work. Now They Are Under Fire. – The New York Times
They Came to Russia for Work. Now They Are Under Fire. The New York Times
Farage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claim
Party leader says Jenrick’s comments ‘misconstrued’, after MP said Royal Marines would be allowed to fire at those on boats
Nigel Farage has denied that a Reform UK government would authorise lethal force against migrant crossings in the Channel, hours after one of his MPs said the Royal Marines should be permitted to fire on the boats.
Robert Jenrick, a Reform UK MP who defected from the Conservatives, had told TalkTV that the party would deploy the Royal Marines to take boats back to France.
Continue reading...Child safety staff determined to send Elizabeth Struhs home with parents despite doctors’ concerns, inquest hears
Queensland coronial inquest into death of eight-year-old girl continues after 14 members of religious sect were convicted of her manslaughter
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It was impossible to change the mind of child safety staff after they had decided to send Elizabeth Struhs home with her parents despite some of her doctors’ concerns, a police officer has told a coronial inquest into the young girl’s death.
Child safety staff decided in 2019 that it would be “more detrimental” to not return Elizabeth, aged six at the time, to her Toowoomba home upon her discharge from hospital after suffering a coma due to diabetic ketoacidosis, a Queensland coroner heard.
Continue reading...Hurricane Simon hitting western Mexico after tropical systems kill 5 – CBS News
- Hurricane Simon hitting western Mexico after tropical systems kill 5 CBS News
- Hurricane Simon hitting western Mexico after tropical systems kill 6 CBS News
- Tropical Storm Trudy has formed in the Pacific Ocean ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Storms cause 5 deaths in Mexico as flood risk eases in southwestern US AP News
- Hurricane Simon crawls along Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing floods and evacuations Reuters
Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte dies aged 34
Mitte, who lived with cerebral palsy, starred as Walter White Jr in the Emmy-winning drama series.
India ‘cockroach’ leaders detained after entering barricaded protest site
Protesters climbed over barricades in central Delhi to demand the election chief resign over revised voter lists.
The return of the prodigal son? Why speculation is rising over Josh Frydenberg’s future
The spectre of a leadership alternative is hardly helpful for Angus Taylor. But would Frydenberg do a better job?
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A reasonable query for Liberals at this point is: if Josh Frydenberg is the answer, what is the question?
There was a whiff of weariness in some corners of parliament this week, as the former treasurer and deputy Liberal leader happily stoked another round of “Josh for Canberra” speculation. With more rumoured comebacks than Oasis, Frydenberg’s latest foray into the national political arena saw him bouncing around TV, radio and podcast interviews to promote his new book, and pointedly refuse to rule out trying to rejoin the parliament.
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