How New York deals with the influx of leaders at the UN General Assembly
Motorcades, blocked roads and heightened security measures intensify traffic and frustrate locals in the bustling city.
Fact check: Trump repeats false claims at speech before UN – DW
- Fact check: Trump repeats false claims at speech before UN DW
- At the UN, Trump Strikes Radically Different Tones in Public and Private The New York Times
- Trump’s ‘right about everything’ rant offers no answers to a world on the brink CNN
- Is This ‘America First’? The Atlantic
- 7 key moments from Trump’s U.N. speech PBS
Yemen’s Houthis launch drone attack on Israel’s Eilat, wounding 22 people
Emergency services say two people seriously injured in the southern Israeli city after failure to intercept.
Palestine recognition due to Oct. 7, Hamas official says – The Jerusalem Post
- Palestine recognition due to Oct. 7, Hamas official says The Jerusalem Post
- Recommit to a two-State solution for Israel-Palestine conflict, ‘before it’s too late’: Guterres UN News
- Hamas lauds Palestinian state recognition, but insists on right to retain weapons The Times of Israel
- ‘Statehood for Palestinians a right, not reward’, says UN, reiterates two-state solution amid Israel's war in Gaza Mint
- State of Palestine: As major UN leaders back sovereignty and challenge Israeli authority, can it bring pe Times of India
Meet the history-making astronauts headed for the Moon
Astronauts of Nasa's first crewed mission to the Moon for more than 50 years hope their journey inspires a new generation.
Iran’s president vows to never build a nuclear bomb in his UNGA speech
Masoud Pezeshkian accused the UK, France and Germany of acting ‘at the behest of the United States of America’.
Twenty injured in Yemen drone attack on Israel, rescuers and military say
Two have been taken to hospital with serious shrapnel injuries, the Magen David Adom ambulance service says.
Iran condemns ‘ludicrous and delusional scheme of greater Israel’
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian held up pictures of those killed by Israel during the 12-day war.
Ukraine hits oil facilities, drone production site in Russia, General Staff confirms – The Kyiv Independent
- Ukraine hits oil facilities, drone production site in Russia, General Staff confirms The Kyiv Independent
- Ukrainian drones stage new attack on major Russian petrochemical complex Reuters
- As Russia pummels Ukraine’s energy, Kyiv hits back at its oil refineries The Washington Post
- Ukrainian Drone Attack on Novorossiysk Port Kills At Least 2 The Moscow Times
- Russian fuel exports drop as Ukraine intensifies its strikes on oil refineries Financial Times
The Gen Z uprising in Asia shows social media is a double-edged sword
Anti-corruption demonstrations have toppled a government - will they lead to lasting change?
Jimmy Kimmel calls out ‘anti-American’ threats to free speech in tearful TV return
The comedian returned from a brief suspension after comments he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Russia, Iran sign nuclear power plants deal as sanctions loom
Agreement between Rosatom and Iran targets energy expansion with eight new nuclear plants planned by 2040.
Italy condemns ‘drone attack’ on Gaza aid flotilla and deploys frigate
Italy's defence minister directs a navy vessel to assist the flotilla's boats after what he says was a drone attack by unidentified perpetrators off Crete.
Maui officials knocked on doors to warn residents before wildfire threat receded
Evacuation orders have now been lifted on fast-growing blaze near Paia, recalling Lahaina’s deadly 2023 fire
Officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui went door to door evacuating residents from a wildfire Tuesday and sounded emergency sirens. But evacuation orders were lifted later in the day, as the threat from the fire receded.
The fire, which on Tuesday grew to more than 100 acres (40 hectares), was first reported at 1.30pm near the north shore town of Paia, officials said.
Continue reading...Sadiq Khan hits back at ‘racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic’ Trump
Khan’s comments come after US president used speech at UN to call London mayor ‘terrible’
Sadiq Khan has hit back at Donald Trump, accusing the US president of being “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic” after he used a speech at the UN to call the London mayor “terrible” and claim the city was being steered toward “sharia law”.
Trump’s remarks on Tuesday night provoked anger among Labour figures, with the health secretary, Wes Streeting, praising Khan as someone who “stands up for difference of background and opinion”.
Continue reading...Supercentenarian gives scientists insight on secrets of healthy old age
Tests on Maria Branyas Morera, who was world’s oldest person before she died last year aged 117, gave doctors a trove of discoveries
The nonagenarian actor Dame Joan Collins may have been on to something when she declared “age is just a number”.
The deepest dive yet into the biology of a supercentenarian has revealed that even extreme old age can be reached without the brain necessarily faltering or the usual illnesses mounting up.
Continue reading...Turning Point chapters at Oklahoma high schools will counter ‘woke indoctrination’, official says
Superintendent says all high schools in state will have chapters of the conservative youth group following Charlie Kirk’s killing
The state superintendent in Oklahoma announced plans to put Turning Point USA chapters in every high school in the state, saying it would counter “radical leftist teachers’ unions” and their “woke indoctrination”.
After far-right activist Charlie Kirk was killed on a college campus earlier this month, requests to start chapters of his conservative youth group, Turning Point, at colleges and high schools have surged, the organization has said.
Continue reading...Nigel Farage swans around peddling hate on Nick Ferrari’s phone-in | John Crace
From immigrants eating the king’s waterfowl to sharia law in London, it’s all there in our Nige’s relativist world
“Attention all swans! Attention all swans! You are not safe! Immigrants from inferior cultures have been seen loitering with intent to kill in royal parks. They want to eat you alive. Be very vigilant. All offenders who are caught will be punishable under sharia law.”
Never say that a half-hour phone in with Nigel Farage on Nick Ferrari’s LBC morning show is anything but educational. Listen and learn. It’s an object lesson in how to perfect the 30-minute hate. Soon to become compulsory if Reform win the next election.
Continue reading...Putin forced to raise taxes again as Ukraine war drains finances – politico.eu
- Putin forced to raise taxes again as Ukraine war drains finances politico.eu
- Russia to raise value added tax rate to 22% as war weighs on economy Financial Times
- Russian finance ministry proposes raising VAT to help fund Ukraine war Reuters
- Russia Plans ‘Acceptable’ 2026 Budget Deficit Amid War Spending Bloomberg.com
- Russia Moves to Raise VAT by 2% as Budget Deficit Swells The Moscow Times
Andy Burnham says Britain needs ‘wholesale change’ as Labour MPs prepare for conference – UK politics live
Manchester mayor urges Keir Starmer to reveal plans to deliver reform but denies he is plotting to replace PM
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has described Nigel Farage over his comment implying Donald Trump might be right about paracetamol posing a risk to pregnant women. (See 10.23am.)
Dangerous and irresponsible.
This man is a snake oil salesman and it’s time people stopped buying.