- Ukrainian drones reportedly strike resort in Russian-occupied Crimea Euronews.com
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- Ukraine says three killed in 'massive' Russian aerial attack BBC
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Arc’teryx fireworks display in Tibet prompts environmental outcry
Outdoor brand says the Rising Dragon promotional event was out of line with its values after public criticism
The outdoor brand Arc’teryx has issued an apology after a promotional fireworks display in the Tibetan plateau led to an outcry over potential environmental damage.
The promotional Rising Dragon high-altitude show involved long stretches of choreographed pyrotechnics and coloured smoke along snow-topped Himalayan ridgelines in the Tibetan region of Shigatse. The Canadian company, part-owned by China’s Anta Group, had partnered with a Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, who oversaw similar shows for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Continue reading...How the billionaire class and wealthy landlords are conspiring against Zohran Mamdani
The wealthiest New Yorkers are desperately to rally support – and millions of dollars – for Andrew Cuomo to defeat the democratic socialist
Zohran Mamdani has had to overcome a lot during his campaign to be New York City’s next mayor.
His age, relative lack of experience and his self-stated democratic socialism could have held him back. Yet the 33-year-old, a relative unknown 12 months ago, sailed through all challenges as he became the favorite to win the election in November.
Continue reading...Donations for Turning Point USA pour in after founder Charlie Kirk’s death
Fundraising efforts ramp up to open new chapters of influential far-right group as Kirk’s widow takes over as CEO
The powerful fundraising operation that rightwing activist Charlie Kirk led to build the influential college group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is receiving a wave of support from large donors and Donald Trump allies since his murder, which suggests the group will remain a major force on the American right, campaign finance experts and consultants say.
New backing and appeals for help to sustain TPUSA have come from, among others, Lynn Friess, the widow of mega-donor Foster Friess, who was Kirk’s first major backer when he formed his campus-focused Republican group in 2012 at the age of 18. Friess pledged $1m to TPUSA days after the 31-year-old’s killing.
Continue reading...China Showcases Electromagnetic Carrier Catapult For First Time – Bloomberg.com
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Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
Nigel Farage has said Reform UK would scrap the main route that migrants take to gain British citizenship, leaving tens of thousands of legally settled people facing deportation unless they met strict rules.
Farage said the plans would tackle the “Boriswave” – the increase in the number of legal migrants who came to work in the UK under post-Brexit migration rules established under Boris Johnson. Much of that increase was because of schemes from Ukraine, Hong Kong and Afghanistan to settle refugees.
Continue reading...France to recognise Palestinian state but Germany and Italy say not yet
President Emmanuel Macron, backed by several other European countries, described France's move as a "necessity".
Mass grave reveals scale of unlawful killings by Egyptian army in Sinai, say campaigners
Human rights group says hundreds of skeletons found exposed or buried just below ground during research into killings of civilians
Hundreds of bodies could have been buried at a mass grave discovered in Egypt’s Sinai province by human rights campaigners.
Bodies lying on the surface and others buried barely 30cm below were found at a burial site near a military outpost by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights.
Continue reading...‘Kafkaesque’: teacher in Birmingham fights to clear his name after identity fraud
Michael Bene is repaying £763 ‘advance’ despite evidence he did not attend face-to-face verification interview
A special needs teacher has spent almost a year trying to clear his name after a fraudulent universal credit claim was made using his identity, which has left him on the hook for hundreds of pounds in repayments.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to acknowledge the fraud, even though Michael Bene has supplied evidence he was in the Scottish Highlands when the claimant attended a face-to-face verification interview in Cheshire.
Continue reading...Happy autumnal equinox 2025! Fall begins in the northern hemisphere today – Space
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EU cyber agency says airport software held to ransom by criminals
Brussels Airport asks airlines to cancel nearly half of their outgoing flights on Monday.
Trump heads to UN General Assembly as future of Palestinian state and Gaza likely to dominate – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Trump heads to UN General Assembly as future of Palestinian state and Gaza likely to dominate ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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- As the world convulses in war and contentiousness, its leaders convene at the UN to figure it out AP News
- U.S. and Israel against the world as Palestine dominates UN week Axios
- What to know as U.N. General Assembly opens, marking 80 years, tackling deep crises NPR
Met police investigate possible vetting errors over 300 recruits
Exclusive: Force examining whether hundreds of recruits had substandard or no checks before being allowed to join
Scotland Yard is urgently making checks on whether it bungled the vetting of hundreds of officers after concerns they may have used inadequate measures when hiring them to see if they posed a criminal risk.
About 300 new recruits may have had substandard or no vetting to see if they had criminal convictions, cautions or criminal associations and whether their integrity was at risk because of debt.
Continue reading...The government’s promised triple zero ‘custodian’ not yet staffed more than a year after previous Optus outage
Consumer advocacy bodies and Greens say Labor failed to act fast enough to prevent last week’s outage linked to multiple deaths
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An independent manager of the triple-zero emergency system has not yet been staffed by the federal government, despite it being a key recommendation of the review into Optus’s last emergency outage.
The communications minister, Anika Wells, said she wanted to “fast track” that process and others rising out of the latest debacle from the maligned telco, but consumer advocacy bodies and the Greens are critical the government has not worked quicker. Calls are growing for Optus to face multimillion-dollar fines even higher than the penalties from a similar incident in 2023.
Continue reading...Weather tracker: Flash floods and landslides wreak havoc in California
Two-year-old boy dies and homes buried as remnants of Tropical Storm Mario bring downpours and thunder
Flash flooding and landslides led to the death of a two-year-old boy in California in the US last week, after heavy rainfall followed on the heels of Tropical Storm Mario further south. The storm skirted the Pacific coast of Mexico with minimal disruption, eventually dissipating to the west of Baja California on Tuesday, but the remnants went on to cause havoc on Thursday. Residual moist air from the tropical storm was drawn north-east towards California, bringing heavy downpours and thunder to central and southern counties.
The heaviest rainfall was in the mountains of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, where up to 68mm (2.67in) fell in a few hours. Further north, Death Valley – famously one of the driest places on Earth – received 15mm of rain, triple the average rainfall for September and a full quarter of the yearly average.
Continue reading...Botswana declares public holiday after ‘historic’ athletics gold medal
President Duma Boko congratulates the men's 4x400m relay team for winning gold at the World Athletic Championships.
Super typhoon hits Philippines as thousands evacuate
Ragasa has hit northern Philippines and is barrelling towards southern China.
Sky News Australia admits editorial failure after guest insults Islam while wearing bacon-covered shirt
Host Freya Leach sat silently while Ryan Williams called Muslims terrorists and explained he ‘wore’ bacon to protect himself from alleged threats of beheading
Sky News Australia has admitted a failure of editorial process allowed a guest to deliver a highly offensive diatribe against Islam while wearing a shirt festooned with raw bacon rashers.
Introducing the UK-based man as a “social media sensation”, Sky News host Freya Leach sat mute while Ryan Williams called Muslims terrorists and explained he “wore” bacon to protect himself from alleged threats of beheading.
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Continue reading...Dominican Republic recovers 1,000 kilograms of cocaine from speedboat destroyed by US Navy – France 24
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South Korea would accept a Trump-Kim deal to freeze nuclear programme, president tells BBC
Lee Jae Myung tells the BBC he wants to restore trust with North Korea.