Guinea stadium massacre fugitive extradited from Liberia
Claude Pivi, Guinea's most wanted fugitive, has been on the run since last year's dramatic prison break.
‘I am part of this nightmare’: man admits guilt in Gisèle Pelicot rape trial
Lionel R, 44, one of 50 men accused, apologises to his victim and tells the court: ‘I have no choice but to accept the facts’
One of 50 men accused of raping the French woman Gisèle Pelicot after she was drugged by her husband accepted the charges on Thursday, saying he was sorry for what he did.
Lionel R, a 44-year-old supermarket worker and father of three, was among dozens of men accused of participating in the mass rape of Pelicot over a decade in a trial that has shocked France.
Continue reading...Talk of Ukraine’s missile deal riles Russia; Kyiv vows to make more weapons
Ukrainian officials lay out plans for domestic defence industry as they await word from Western powers.
Hezbollah chief: Israel crossed “all red lines” with device explosions
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for sabotaging communication devices that exploded across Lebanon.
Thai woman freed after hours of being strangled by a python – CNN
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- Woman, 64, Describes Fierce 2-Hour Struggle With 13-Foot Python Yahoo! Voices
Boeing strike: ‘My $28-an-hour pay isn’t enough to get by’
BBC News speaks to Boeing workers on the picket line about why they feel they have no choice but to strike.
Judge in Brazil orders Musk’s X to obey ban or face daily fine
The social network X faces hefty new fine after its appears to defy ban ordered by a judge.
Prada and Max Mara bring strangeness and science to Milan fashion week
Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada celebrate idiosyncrasy, while Ian Griffiths foregrounds mathematical tailoring
A Prada show is never a straightforward beauty pageant, so when the co-designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons go out of their way to be contrary and challenging, the result is, frankly, pretty weird.
Thick woollen tights with belt loops. A boob tube with snap pockets on the nipples. Shoes that peel back at the heels like curls of butter. In the cavernous concrete of Prada’s Milanese headquarters, the catwalk was twisted into hairpin bends, so that the audience couldn’t see what was coming next. Each outfit was crazier than the last. A strapless lemon ballgown with sunglasses the size of a gas mask was followed by black jeans tucked into dirty white cowboy boots.
Continue reading...Brazil top judge accuses X of ‘willful’ circumvention of court-ordered block
Justice Alexandre de Moraes imposes $900,000 daily fine on banned social media platform in dispute with Elon Musk
In the latest round of the dispute between Elon Musk and Brazil’s top court, a senior judge has accused X of a “willful, illegal and persistent” effort to circumvent a court-ordered block – and imposed a fine of R$5m ($921,676) for each day the social network remains online.
The social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which has been banned by court order since 30 August, on Wednesday became accessible to many users in Brazil after an update that used cloud services offered by third parties, such as Cloudflare, Fastly and Edgeuno.
Continue reading...Genetic ghosts suggest Covid’s market origins
A team of scientists say it is "beyond reasonable doubt" the Covid pandemic started with infected animals.
UN accuses Israel of ‘massive’ violation of child rights treaty in Gaza
UN committee says horrific impact on children from Israel's war on Gaza will have an 'extremely dark place in history'.
Exclusive: Ammunition from India enters Ukraine, raising Russian ire – Reuters
- Exclusive: Ammunition from India enters Ukraine, raising Russian ire Reuters
- Russia's Top Trade Ally Defies Putin's Warning Over Kyiv Weapons Newsweek
- Ammunition From India Diverted To Ukraine? What Government Said NDTV
- India Continues Supplying Ammunition to Ukraine Despite Kremlin Protests Kyiv Post
- MEA reacts to 'misleading' reports of Indian weapons in Ukraine The Times of India
Rod Sims says ‘worth considering’ whether realestate.com.au engaged in anti-competitive practices as Greens blast ‘rigged’ system
Greens say the price hikes arising from REA Group’s dominance underscore need for new price-gouging laws
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Rod Sims, the former chair of Australia’s competition law enforcer, says he believes the regulator should consider investigating the behaviour of the market’s leading real estate property portal, realestate.com.au, for potential anti-competitive behaviour.
The Greens have also hit out at what they say is an alleged “outrageous abuse of market power”, saying the price hikes arising from REA Group’s dominance underscored the need for new price-gouging laws.
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Continue reading...‘Impossible task’: NGV to take largest international exhibition of Indigenous art to US
The show, which will tour for three years across North America beginning in 2025, will feature the gallery’s ‘absolute masterpieces’ – including works by Emily Kam Kngwarray and Albert Namatjira
The largest international exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art will open in 2025 at Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art and tour for three years across North America.
Titled The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, the show will feature more than 200 works from the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) collection from the 19th century to the present day – including masterpieces by the late Emily Kam Kngwarray, Rover Thomas, Sally Gabori and Albert Namatjira.
Continue reading...‘Australia’s next rabbit plague’: calls for feral deer in Victoria to be considered a pest instead of wildlife
Victoria is home to perhaps the largest population and the only mainland state with ‘legislative relic’ of protections
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Land holders and managers along with landcare and environment groups want Victoria to remove protections for feral deer, as booming populations wreak havoc on agriculture and the local environment.
Jordan Crook, from the Victorian National Parks Association, said recognising deer as pests – alongside foxes, rabbits and pigs – would bring Victoria in line with the rest of mainland Australia.
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Continue reading...Privacy experts shocked as Hobart council agrees to beam live CCTV footage into police station
Sharing livestream from 330 council-operated cameras with force via ‘portal’ in Hobart police station labelled ‘a massive intrusion on rights’
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Police in Hobart have been granted real-time access to footage from hundreds of city council CCTV cameras in a move labelled “so intrusive and oppressive” by the Australian Privacy Foundation.
The CCTV partnership between Tasmania police and the City of Hobart was announced on Thursday but has been operating secretly for weeks.
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Continue reading...Israeli police say they thwarted Iranian assassination attempt – The Hill
- Israeli police say they thwarted Iranian assassination attempt The Hill
- Israeli Jew recruited by Iran in plot to kill Netanyahu, Gallant or Shin Bet head Bar The Times of Israel
- Iranian Netanyahu assassination plot foiled, Israeli man charged Fox News
- Israeli businessman demanded $1 million to kill Netanyahu, other leaders, police say ABC News
- Israel thwarts Iranian plot to assassinate Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Ronen Bar The Jerusalem Post
Cambodia’s controversial canal
Why Cambodia's new canal project has its neighbours worried.
French woman responds with outrage after lawyers suggest she consented to a decade of rape – NBC News
- French woman responds with outrage after lawyers suggest she consented to a decade of rape NBC News
- Accused rapist lashes out at journalist during trial in France CNN
- Man Who Drugged Wife and Invited Dozens of Men to Rape Her Confesses to Crimes: ‘I am a Rapist’ PEOPLE
- A French man admits in court to drugging his wife so that he and dozens of men could rape her The Associated Press
- The Rape Trial in France of 51 Men, Explained The New York Times
US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds | US news – The Guardian US
- US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds | US news The Guardian US
- US ranks last on key health care measures compared with other high-income nations, despite spending the most, report says CNN
- US has worst healthcare system among wealthy nations, survey says The Hill
- U.S. health care ranks last compared to 9 other countries; Australia. U.K., Netherlands lead, report finds NBC News
- U.S. spends the most but ranks last in health compared with other high-income nations, new report says CBS News