Bacha Khan: Defying an Empire
The life of Pashtun leader Bacha Khan, who fought to end British colonial rule in India by non-violent means.
Lost Maya city with temple pyramids and plazas discovered in Mexico
Archaeologists draw on laser mapping to find city they have named Valeriana, thought to have been founded pre-AD150
After swapping machetes and binoculars for computer screens and laser mapping, a team of researchers have stumbled on a lost Maya city of temple pyramids, enclosed plazas and a reservoir, all of which had been hidden for centuries by the Mexican jungle.
The discovery in the south-eastern Mexican state of Campeche came about after Luke Auld-Thomas, an anthropologist at Northern Arizona University, began wondering whether non-archaeological uses of the state-of-the-art laser mapping known as lidar could help shed light on the Maya world.
Continue reading...Puerto Rico Republican chair demands Trump apology for rally’s racist remarks
Angel M Cintrón, party’s chair on island, says he will not vote for Trump unless he says sorry for speaker’s comments
The president of the Republican party’s branch in Puerto Rico has said he will not vote for Donald Trump unless he apologises for racist remarks made at his rally referring to the US island territory as a “floating island of garbage”.
Outrage even among fellow Republicans is continuing to mount after the racist insult at the Republican nominee’s rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, with the podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe coming under fire for his inflammatory comments made about Puerto Rico in the opening speech.
Continue reading...Could Puerto Rican voters hurt Trump in US election after jibe at rally?
Remarks by a stand-up comedian at a Trump rally could swing the vote in battleground states like Pennsylvania.
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Georgia to run partial recount amid claims of election fraud
Ballots in five randomly selected polling stations in each of Georgia's 84 electoral districts will be recounted.
NHS will not be turned around in one budget, says Wes Streeting – UK politics live
Health secretary says measures to be announced on Wednesday would ‘arrest the decline’ amid significant NHS reform
Kemi Badenoch, who is the bookies’ favourite to be the next Conservative leader, has told Times Radio that the contest is poised “neck and neck”.
Interviewed by Kate McCann, Badenoch told listeners:
People are tired of the party looking like it is not out working for the people out there. That is what I want to bring: integrity, and a focus on conviction and conservative values.
There is something very significant that is going on, we are picking a leader of the opposition. People have a choice.
This is a sacrifice, because I worry about the direction of the country.
I worry about a lot of decisions we make, and us not being honest with the public about the serious trade-offs that are going to be required, and not saying enough about how the world is becoming a more dangerous place.
Continue reading...Middle East crisis: US concerned by ‘horrifying’ Israeli airstrike that killed at least 93 civilians, including 20 children, in Gaza – as it happened
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Al Jazeera has spoken with the director-general of the Gaza government’s media office, Ismail al-Thawabta, who has said at least 93 people were killed in the Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza’s town of Beit Lahiya. Gaza’s health ministry said earlier today that 60 people were killed in the strike this morning, which hit a residential building housing displaced civilians. Al-Thawabta said that the building Israel attacked housed 200 people. Dozens of people are reported missing and 150 others estimated to be injured. Medics said 20 children were among the dead.
Many of those injured have been rushed to nearby Kamal Adwan hospital inside the Jabalia refugee camp. But the hospital is struggling to treat them as it reportedly has run out of medical supplies and only has two paediatric doctors, with no surgeons. Israeli forces detained dozens of medical staff at the hospital days ago. Dr Hossam Abu Safiya, director of the hospital, told Al Jazeera on Friday that most of the surgeons had been arrested by Israeli troops, meaning urgent surgeries could not be performed.
The UAV (drone) force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting the industrial zone of the Israeli enemy in the Ashkelon region.
Continue reading...What the US election outcome means for Ukraine, Gaza and world conflict
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Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick
Tory leadership candidate wades into reparations debate, arguing empire brought democratic institutions
Britain’s former colonies should be thankful for the legacy of empire, not demanding reparations, according to the Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick.
In comments that were described by a Labour MP as “deeply offensive”, the former minister said countries that were part of the empire “owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them” in the form of legal and democratic institutions.
Continue reading...Kamala Harris delivers ‘closing argument’ in Washington – as it happened
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Most Americans are prepared to accept the election results as legitimate, according to a new ABC/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
The poll, conducted between 18 October to 22, 2024, states 83% of Americans surveyed and 86% of registered voters surveyed are prepared to accept the outcome of the presidential election as legitimate, regardless of which candidate they support.
Continue reading...Ex-Tory MP reprimanded for ‘brazen’ sexual misconduct
Parliamentary watchdog rules Aaron Bell ‘abused his position of power’ by touching woman in Commons bar
A former Conservative MP has been reprimanded for “brazen and drunken” sexual misconduct in one of parliament’s bars.
Aaron Bell, who was the Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme until July, was found by a parliamentary watchdog to have “abused his position of power” by touching a woman “on her left thigh, waist and bottom inappropriately and without her consent”.
Continue reading...Hard-hit Defra to have budget slashed further despite warnings
Department’s finances were slashed during austerity and campaigners say more cuts will stall progress to meet nature and climate targets
Rachel Reeves has been urged not to cut the government’s environment funding in the budget as analysis shows the department’s finances were slashed at twice the rate of other departments in the austerity years.
Between 2009/10 and 2018/19, the environment department budget declined by 35% in monetary terms and 45% in real terms, according to Guardian analysis of annual reports from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Environment Agency and Natural England. By comparison, the average cut across government departments during the Conservative austerity programme was about 20%. During the first five years of austerity, it was the most cut department.
Continue reading...Iran plans to increase military budget by 200 percent
Defence spending boost needs parliament nod, comes as Iran and Israel exchanged tit-for-tat missile strikes in October.
Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya kills 93, says Gaza rescue agency
Medical staff and emergency services say those killed in the attack include many women and children
Scores of Palestinians including many women and children have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a crowded apartment building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said 93 people had been killed and 40 were still missing, as emergency workers dug through the rubble looking for the dead and injured on Tuesday morning. Many of those present at the time of the attack were members of the extended Abu Nasr family.
Continue reading...Colin Farrell’s Dublin marathon run raises €774,000 for charity
Actor ran last part of course pushing friend Emma Fogarty who has genetic condition known as butterfly skin
Colin Farrell has raised €774,000 (£644,000) for a charity supporting people with a rare skin condition by running the Dublin marathon while pushing one of the oldest survivors of the disease in Ireland around part of the course in her wheelchair.
The actor, who was born in the Irish capital, raised the money for Debra Ireland, an organisation that supports people with the incurable genetic condition epidermolysis bullosa (EB), or “butterfly skin”, which causes people to have very fragile and blistering skin.
Continue reading...A sudden Israeli bombing, then a Beirut family’s scramble for safety
It was a regular evening at the Merhis' home. Then a bomb ripped through their building, turning everything lethal.
Steve Bannon released from prison early a week before US election
Trump ally served four-month sentence for defying subpoena in investigation into 6 January attack
Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison early, after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Bannon left the federal correctional institution in Danbury, Connecticut, according to Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons. He planned to hold a news conference later in the day in Manhattan, his representatives said. He is also expected to resume his podcast on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Harris seeks to rally youth vote in Michigan | First Thing
Democratic presidential candidate campaigns in university city of Ann Arbor as polls show state on knife-edge
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Appearing together in the home town of Michigan’s largest university, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sought to burnish their credentials with young voters and soothe Democrats who had grown nervous as the apparent deadlock in the race for the White House has dragged on.
Is Kamala Harris alienating progressives as she courts anti-Trump Republicans? The vice-president is relying on support of high-profile GOP refuseniks as she moves to the centre despite warnings from progressives. “I don’t think having Liz Cheney on the team helps at all, because she doesn’t bring a flock of votes with her,” said James Zogby, a member of the Democratic National Committee.
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Continue reading...Hezbollah elects new leader following Israeli strike that killed Nasrallah
Naim Qassem replaces group’s longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah after he was killed by Israel
Hezbollah has elected its deputy secretary general, Sheikh Naim Qassem, as its new head, ending a month-long leadership vacuum after the group’s long time leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by Israel.
Since Nasrallah’s death, Qassem has filled in for him, giving a public address earlier this month in which he vowed that Hezbollah would continue fighting Israel in what it described as a war of attrition, despite painful losses.
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