- Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds Bloomberg.com
- Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in the roof The Guardian
- Esmond Birnie: It is wrong of the chancellor Rachel Reeves to blame Brexit for our current economic woes in the UK Belfast News Letter
- OBR accused of overstating Brexit’s economic damage The Telegraph
- Brexit - A Critical Audit in the Cold Light of Day The London School of Economics and Political Science
Pope Leo visits tomb of St Francis in Assisi – Vatican News
- Pope Leo visits tomb of St Francis in Assisi Vatican News
- ‘We have no consensus to gain’: Zuppi calls for new commitment to evangelization The Pillar
- Pope Leo to bishops: Be prophets of peace and harmony in your dioceses America Magazine
- Pope Leo XIV Asks Italian Church To Develop 'Culture Of Abuse Prevention' NDTV
- Striving for Balance Amidst Tensions Il Messaggero
Nigerian court sentences separatist Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison on terrorism charges – AP News
- Nigerian court sentences separatist Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison on terrorism charges AP News
- Nnamdi Kanu: Nigerian separatist leader sentenced to life for terrorism BBC
- Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Kanu for terrorism CNN
- Nigeria jails separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu for life on ‘terrorism’ charges Al Jazeera
- Biafran separatist leader sentenced to life on terrorism charges by Nigerian court The Guardian
Watch: Chadwick Boseman posthumously honoured with Hollywood star
The late actor, who passed away in 2020 after a private battle with cancer, was celebrated for his role as Marvel’s Black Panther.
When will the Epstein files be released and will they be redacted?
The House passed - and the Senate agreed to pass - a bill forcing the release of Epstein files, but legal hurdles remain.
Trump signs bill ordering US justice department to release Epstein files
The bill gives the US Justice Department 30 days to release all the files in a searchable format.
Kellie Sloane appointed NSW Liberal leader following ouster of Mark Speakman
The former journalist and first-term MP had Speakman’s endorsement and support across the factions
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Kellie Sloane has become the third woman to lead the NSW Liberal Party after a party room meeting agreed on Friday morning to make her leader of the opposition.
The right’s Alister Henskens, the shadow attorney-general, did not stand.
Continue reading...China prepares to launch uncrewed Shenzhou as maiden launches slip for commercial launch providers – NASASpaceFlight.com –
- China prepares to launch uncrewed Shenzhou as maiden launches slip for commercial launch providers NASASpaceFlight.com -
- Three more Chinese astronauts are now stranded in space following successful rescue of their colleagues Live Science
- China abandons Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in orbit after debris damage, crew return on Shenzhou-21: Here’s what happened The Indian Express
- Stranded astronauts return, university ranking ridiculed: 7 science highlights South China Morning Post
- Astronauts Are Stranded in Space Right Now: Here's What We Know ScienceAlert
Bay Area’s poverty soared, data shows, as California’s top earners saw windfalls
Poverty rate jumped from 12.2% to 16.3% in 2023 in state, Tipping Point Community report finds
Newly released data found that the San Francisco Bay Area’s poverty rate soared from 12.2% to 16.3% in 2023, with an approximate total 1.02 million residents in this six-county region considered impoverished by year’s end.
Another 12.5% of residents – about 790,000 people – hovered on the brink of poverty, meaning that about three in 10 Bay Area residents struggled to cover basic expenses.
Continue reading...‘Huge columns of smoke’: BBC at the scene of fire at COP30
Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt was at the UN climate talks in Brazil when a fire broke out.
Tears and solemnity at Cheney funeral – but no memorial for those killed in Iraq
Great and good pay tribute in Washington but honouring of former vice-president was an exercise in omission
You suspected that Maga had not conquered the Washington national cathedral when Bill Kristol was spotted at a men’s urinal conversing with Chris Wallace. You knew it for sure when James Carville, Anthony Fauci and Rachel Maddow were seen sitting close to one another in the nave.
The funeral of the 46th US vice-president, Dick Cheney, who died earlier this month aged 84, was a throwback to a less raucous and rancorous time. Ex-presidents and vice-presidents, Democratic and Republican, made small talk, but Donald Trump, who spent Thursday crying treason and calling for Democrats to be put to death, and his deputy JD Vance were not invited.
Continue reading...Cory Mills Was Caught With Sex Workers Before Mission to Afghanistan in 2021, Sources Say – NOTUS — News of the United States
- Cory Mills Was Caught With Sex Workers Before Mission to Afghanistan in 2021, Sources Say NOTUS — News of the United States
- 'It was every night': New report exposes MAGA lawmaker's purported sex worker scandal rawstory.com
- A Work-Life Balance is always important..... Daily Kos
- Rep. Cory Mills Just Got Busted for Yet Another Sex Scandal: Report Yahoo
Zelenskyy’s lame-duck presidency – politico.eu
- Zelenskyy’s lame-duck presidency politico.eu
- Zelenskyy needs to change the way he governs Financial Times
- Zelensky is losing touch with reality The Telegraph
- Zelensky must get a grip of his government The Spectator
- The tragedy of Zelensky’s Ukraine Engelsberg Ideas
Pelosi calls Trump ‘the biggest con job in American history’ in reply to climate comment
US speaker emerita criticizes Trump’s anti-climate stance and his remarks to the UN general assembly
“President Trump is the biggest con job in American history,” said Nancy Pelosi, the US speaker emerita, to reporters on Thursday while criticizing his anti-climate agenda.
Donald Trump told the UN general assembly in September that the climate crisis was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”. But he was “projecting”, Pelosi said at a press conference. The meeting was convened by Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to comment on the US’s official absence from the United Nations Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, where 195 countries are represented.
Continue reading...Death toll reaches 33 in some of the deadliest Israeli strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire’s start – AP News
- Death toll reaches 33 in some of the deadliest Israeli strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire's start AP News
- Palestinians ‘squeezed’ as Israel moves beyond ‘yellow line’ in Gaza City Al Jazeera
- Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 25 in Gaza Amid Cease-Fire, Officials Say The New York Times
- Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks The Guardian
- Headlines for November 20, 2025 Democracy Now!
Russian Army Says It Captured Key City of Kupiansk as Putin Visits Command Post – The Moscow Times
- Russian Army Says It Captured Key City of Kupiansk as Putin Visits Command Post The Moscow Times
- Russian forces take Ukraine's Kupiansk, top military official says, Ukraine denies it Reuters
- Ukraine War Latest Update: Kremlin Announces Capture of Major Ukraine City That Didn’t Happen Kyiv Post
- Kremlin Says Around 5,000 Ukrainian Troops Are Trapped in the Kharkiv Region U.S. News & World Report
- 'Cheap provocations' — Ukraine denies Russia's claim that it has captured Kupiansk, as fighting continues The Kyiv Independent
Iran Withdraws From Deal to Let International Nuclear Inspections Resume – The New York Times
- Iran Withdraws From Deal to Let International Nuclear Inspections Resume The New York Times
- Iran cancels new nuclear inspections it agreed to after bombing campaign The Washington Post
- IAEA passes resolution demanding nuclear access from Iran; Tehran rejects Al Jazeera
- Introductory Statement to the Board of Governors International Atomic Energy Agency
- IAEA puts pressure on Iran, targeting 60% enriched uranium The Jerusalem Post
Documents reveal Gerald Ford’s effort to block report on CIA assassination plots
Release of documents comes amid conjecture Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuelan president
The White House under Gerald Ford tried to block a landmark Senate report that disclosed the CIA’s role in assassination attempts against foreign leaders and ultimately led to a radical overhaul in how the agency was held to account, documents released to mark the 50th anniversary of the report’s publication reveal.
The documents, dating from 1975, were posted on Thursday by the National Security Archive, an independent research group, as it sought to highlight the report’s significance amid conjecture that Donald Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, amid a massive US military build-up against the country.
Continue reading...Fire forces evacuation from climate summit as talks reach critical stage – Politico
- Fire forces evacuation from climate summit as talks reach critical stage Politico
- 'Huge columns of smoke': BBC at the scene of fire at COP30 BBC
- Fire prompts evacuations at U.N. climate talks in Brazil; 13 suffer smoke inhalation NPR
- Cop30 climate summit in Brazil disrupted after fire breaks out in venue The Guardian
- Fire breaks out in pavilion at COP30 venue in Brazil The Hindu
Spycops inquiry: Doreen Lawrence says she does not believe ex-home secretary
Stephen Lawrence’s mother tells inquiry she did not believe Michael Howard when he told her he did not know police had spied on her family
The mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has told a public inquiry that she does not believe claims by the former home secretary Michael Howard that he did not know undercover police officers had spied on her family.
Doreen Lawrence told the spycops inquiry on Thursday that Lord Howard, a former leader of the Conservative party, invited her to a meeting shortly after the inquiry was set up in 2014.
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