The ‘mastermind’ behind India’s biggest jailbreak
Nearly 20 years ago, 389 men escaped from an Indian jail, led by a man believed to have planned the breakout.
Israeli strikes kill three civilians in Syria’s Damascus, state TV says
State-run Syrian Arab News Agency says TV anchor killed in Israeli attack on Syrian capital.
Three civilians killed in Israeli airstrike on Damascus, state media says – Reuters
- Three civilians killed in Israeli airstrike on Damascus, state media says Reuters
- Israeli strikes kill three civilians in Syria’s Damascus, state TV says Al Jazeera English
- Syrian air defences intercept ‘hostile targets’ over vicinity of Damascus The Times of Israel
- Syrian news anchor killed in alleged Israeli strike in Damascus Ynetnews
- Israeli bombing of Damascus kills three civilians, including journalist Middle East Eye
Israeli troops advance into Lebanon as ground offensive launched
Military describes attacks as 'limited, localised and targeted' and supported by air force and artillery.
Israel launches ground offensive into southern Lebanon
The Israeli military has launched a ground offensive into several Lebanese villages near the border.
VP debates rarely matter – the Walz v Vance showdown is different
Trump has refused further debates with Harris, so their VP picks step in to sway voters in a tight race.
Assange says he is free because he ‘pled guilty to journalism’ – as it happened
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National weather forecasts
Sticking with the weather, here’s a look at the forecasts across Australia’s capital cities today:
Continue reading...UK charters flight from Lebanon as governments prepare evacuation plans
UK arranges flight from Beirut while Germany evacuates embassy staff and others urge citizens to leave as Israel launches limited ground operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon
The UK has chartered a flight out of Lebanon for Britons to leave the country amid the escalating violence in the region, as governments around the world begin making contingency plans to evacuate their citizens. amid the escalating violence in the region.
The UK arranged a flight that was due to leave Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport on Wednesday. David Lammy, the foreign secretary, described the situation in Lebanon as “volatile” and with the “potential to deteriorate quickly”.
Continue reading...Georgia judge says women aren’t ‘some piece of collectively owned community property’ in ruling to overturn abortion ban – live
A judge in Georgia struck down the state’s ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy
Donald Trump has been taunting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for not rushing to the areas affected by Hurricane Helene and the storm’s aftermath.
Harris has returning early to Washington DC from election campaigning out west, as the Democratic party’s nominee for president since Biden, the sitting president, quit his race for re-election in July.
Continue reading...Georgia judge strikes down state’s abortion ban, allowing care to resume
Fulton county judge issues order that abortions must be regulated as they were before law took effect in 2022
A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling that the ban is unconstitutional and blocking it from being enforced.
In a 26-page opinion, the Fulton county superior judge Robert McBurney ruled that the state’s abortion laws must revert to what they were before the six-week ban – known as the Life Act – was passed in 2019. The ban was blocked as long as Roe v Wade was the law of the land, but went into effect after the US supreme court overturned Roe in 2022.
Continue reading...‘Perpetual’ cruise to leave Belfast after passengers wait four months in port
Travellers finally board Villa Vie Odyssey for three-and-a-half-year global circumnavigation
More than 100 passengers are due to finally leave Belfast on Monday on a three-year round-the-world “perpetual” cruise after being marooned unexpectedly in the city for four months.
They were supposed to have set sail from the legendary Harland and Wolff dockyards in Belfast, best known as the home of the Titanic, on 30 May.
Continue reading...‘People are just scrambling’ – North Carolina reels from devastating storm
Residents describe how the storm "destroyed everything in its path" and wiped out entire communities in the state.
Xi Jinping is worried about the economy – what do Chinese people think?
Two new pieces of research offer a rare glimpse into how Chinese people feel about their future.
Israeli Special Forces Launch Raids Into Lebanon Ahead of Expected Ground Incursion – The Wall Street Journal
- Israeli Special Forces Launch Raids Into Lebanon Ahead of Expected Ground Incursion The Wall Street Journal
- Live updates: Hezbollah leader’s killing escalates war with Israel CNN
- Hezbollah Says It "Targeted" Israeli Troops At Lebanon Border NDTV
- Lebanese troops pull back from border as Israeli ground invasion looms Reuters
- Israeli raids against Hezbollah signal a wider ground incursion into Lebanon could come soon The Associated Press
Trump visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia and makes false claims about Biden
The ex-president said Brian Kemp, the state governor, was trying to reach the president who was ‘sleeping’, in vain
Donald Trump spoke in front of a furniture store gutted by Hurricane Helene in Valdosta, Georgia, on Monday, claiming falsely that Georgia’s governor had not been able to reach Joe Biden.
Upon landing in Valdosta, Trump claimed to reporters the president had been “sleeping” and that Brian Kemp, the governor, had been “calling the president and hasn’t been able to get him”. He repeated the false claim when speaking in front of the store.
Continue reading...After six years of marathon news conferences, Mexico’s AMLO steps off the stage – Yahoo! Voices
- After six years of marathon news conferences, Mexico's AMLO steps off the stage Yahoo! Voices
- Triumph and a broken promise: Andrés Manuel López Obrador vowed to transform Mexico, but did he? The Guardian
- In Mexico, President 'AMLO' leaves his successor a dynamic economy but a failing security record Le Monde
- First test for Mexico's new president? Marathon daily press conferences Reuters Canada
- What is the legacy of Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador? Al Jazeera English
Rudy Giuliani’s daughter backs Harris and grieves ‘loss of my dad to Trump’
Caroline Rose Giuliani decries ‘destructive’ Trump and calls relationship with father ‘cartoonishly complicated’
Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has won the endorsement of Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, who declared: “I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to [Donald] Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.”
Caroline Rose Giuliani was writing in Vanity Fair, where she lamented how her father, who was once the former president’s personal attorney and trusted adviser, became caught up in the “destructive trail” and chaos of the Trump administration and its aftermath.
Continue reading...At the scene of Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut – BBC.com
- At the scene of Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut BBC.com
- IAF strikes Hezbollah military infrastructure in Beirut's Dehieh The Jerusalem Post
- Israel’s attack on Beirut’s Kola: What happened and why it matters Al Jazeera English
- Hamas Leader Killed in Lebanon Was Also a U.N. Staffer The Wall Street Journal
- UNRWA chief says he did not know a suspended teacher was Hamas’s leader in Lebanon The Times of Israel
Lorry plummets 60 metres from a bridge on M6 in Cheshire
Driver is not thought to have serious injuries after vehicle fell from Thelwall viaduct between junctions 21 and 21
A lorry has fallen 60 metres (200ft) from a bridge on the M6 in Cheshire, and police have advised motorists to avoid the area.
The vehicle plummeted from the Thelwall viaduct between junctions 20 and 21, landing on the embankment below, Cheshire constabulary said. The driver of the lorry is not believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries.
Continue reading...Firefly species may blink out as US seeks to list it as endangered for first time
Bethany Beach firefly, found in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, faces dangers to habitat because of climate change
The US government is seeking to consider a firefly species as endangered for the first time, according to a proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Bethany Beach firefly, found in coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, is facing increasing dangers to its natural habitat because of climate change-related events. They include sea level rise, which is predicted to affect all sites within the known distribution by the end of the century, and the lowering of groundwater aquifers.
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