Trump peace plan ‘ignores interests of Palestinian people’, Hamas official tells BBC
A senior Hamas figure told the BBC the group is likely to reject Trump's Gaza peace plan, saying it "serves Israel's interests".
Trump sets deadline for Hamas to respond to his Gaza peace plan
US President Donald Trump says Hamas has three or four days to respond to his proposed plan to end the war in Gaza.
Liberals are catalysts to catastrophe, again
In their self-serving pursuit of maintaining the status quo, liberals continue to appease the right.
Madagascar president dissolves government after deadly protests
Madagascar’s president has dissolved his government in response to youth-led protests that killed at least 22 people.
‘Fatal flaws’: analysts cast doubt on Tony Blair’s plan for future of Gaza
Former PM seems a perfect fit for Trump’s new era but his track record in the Middle East is not reassuring
The emergence of Tony Blair as a potential Gaza interim consul and member of Donald Trump’s “board of peace” marks his latest reinvention as a would-be power broker in the Middle East.
As a key architect of the disastrous invasion of Iraq, a promoter of a simplistic interpretation of Islamist extremism as the world’s main security challenge and a figure who has been accused of intertwining his own business interests with his political advocacy, he is in some ways a perfect fit for the new Trump era.
Continue reading...Scientists make embryos from human skin DNA for first time
US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.
Mass slaughter in Gaza stands apart from other genocides, Chris Sidoti says: ‘People cannot escape’
Australian human rights expert who was on UN commission of inquiry labels Israel’s strategy a failure that ‘has not brought peace and has not destroyed Hamas’
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“The people of Gaza have absolutely no way to escape the killing: they are literally a captive population.”
Chris Sidoti knows the brutality of conflict too well, his experience investigating international crimes is devastatingly comprehensive. But he sees a categoric difference in the violence in Gaza.
Continue reading...Palestinians in Gaza react to Trump plan on ending Israel’s war
Palestinians in Gaza have been reacting to US President Donald Trump's 20-point plan to bring an end to the war on Gaza.
Watch: What do Gazans and Israelis think of Trump’s plan?
People in Gaza and Jerusalem share their reactions to the US president's new strategy for ending the war.
Flights in Afghanistan grounded after internet shutdown
The Taliban have yet to give an official reason for the shutdown, but said it would last indefinitely.
For Netanyahu, avoiding a peace deal may now be worse than agreeing one
Trump is asking the Israeli PM to risk his government but dangling the prospect of a historic legacy, writes Lucy Williamson.
For Netanyahu, avoiding a peace deal may now be worse than agreeing one
Trump is asking the Israeli PM to risk his government but dangling the prospect of a historic legacy, writes Lucy Williamson.
Starmer Describes ‘Fight for the Soul’ of U.K. as Populist Right Rises – The New York Times
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US deporting 120 Iranians after deal struck with Tehran, Iran says
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Prime minister will focus on economic growth as an ‘antidote to division’ in address that will seek to strike a more combative, hopeful tone
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has said that Tony Blair could play a positive role in Gaza helping to lead the administration there proposed under Donald Trump’s peace plan.
In an interview on LBC, Streeting said that Blair’s decision to involve the UK in the Iraq war was “a catastrophic error” that had “devasting consequences”. He said that he personally opposed it at the time.
I also think about Tony Blair’s other legacy, great legacy, which is Northern Ireland, and there he showed that he could bring together sworn enemies to broker a lasting peace.
So if Tony Blair can put those skills to use, if he’s got the confidence of both the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the regional players, as seems to be the case, then great. If he can make that contribution, and that can be another legacy, a positive legacy under his belt, then so much the better.
Continue reading...Kash Patel allegedly gives New Zealand officials guns illegal to possess under local laws
New Zealand destroyed pistols the FBI director gifted to security chiefs after finding the guns potentially operable
On a visit to New Zealand, Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told the Associated Press.
The plastic 3D-printed replica pistols formed part of display stands the FBI director presented to at least three senior New Zealand security officials in July. Patel, the most senior Trump administration official to visit the country so far, was in Wellington to open the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand.
Continue reading...AfD politician’s former aide convicted of spying for China
Jian Guo jailed for five years after acting as agent for Chinese intelligence while working for Maximilian Krah
A former aide to a member of parliament for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party has been sentenced to almost five years in prison for spying on behalf of China.
Jian Guo was convicted on Tuesday of acting as an agent for the Chinese intelligence service while working for Maximilian Krah, a former member of the European parliament who now sits for the AfD in Germany’s Bundestag.
Continue reading...Afghanistan’s cellphone, internet services down after Taliban ordered cut, sources say – Reuters
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Almost a third of Prax Lindsey oil refinery workers to lose jobs
Insolvency Service says 125 roles to go at Lincolnshire plant, which went into administration in summer
Almost a third of workers at the Prax Lindsey oil refinery in north Lincolnshire, which collapsed into administration this summer, will lose their jobs at the end of October.
The Insolvency Service said the decision to make 125 roles redundant, with 255 people remaining at the site, “was not taken lightly” and follows a thorough review of “all aspects of the business, following its insolvency”.
Continue reading...Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe
Study finds prosecutors targeting low-income women mainly in US south – and figure likely to be an undercount
In the first two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, prosecutors in 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, new research released on Tuesday found.
Of the 412 cases tracked by Pregnancy Justice, the vast majority took place in the US south, targeted low-income women and involved allegations that women broke laws against child abuse, endangerment or neglect, according to the research, which was compiled by the reproductive justice group. About 300 prosecutions took place in Alabama and Oklahoma. In 16 cases, law enforcement charged women with homicide.
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