- Israel hits targets in Lebanon, expands airstrikes to Yemen TODAY
- Footage shows huge explosion at Yemen port BBC.com
- CNN aboard Israeli tanker for strike on Houthi-controlled port in Yemen CNN
- Israel hits Yemen’s infrastructure again: What we know and why it matters Al Jazeera English
- Houthis claim to have launched drones at Tel Aviv, Eilat The Jerusalem Post
Real winners of Sri Lanka’s election: A people emboldened to force change
Anura Kumara Dissanayake rode a wave of anger to power. But any Sri Lankan leader's position is precarious today.
France’s World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann quits international football
Star midfielder Griezmann has called time on a 10-year career that saw him score 44 goals in 137 matches for France.
Netflix fails to get Baby Reindeer lawsuit dropped
Fiona Harvey claims the streaming giant told "brutal lies" about her to more than 50 million viewers.
Porridge recalled after three children die in South Africa
The company that makes the porridge says it is investigating whether its product is linked to the deaths.
Putin says Ukraine goals will be ‘achieved’ as he repeats ‘neo-Nazi’ claims
President repeats justification for sending forces into Ukraine as Moscow launches swarms of drones against Kyiv.
Biden was right to stand aside in critical election, Clinton says
The former presidential hopeful tells the BBC "the future of democracy is at stake" in November's vote.
‘I grabbed my grandchildren and ran’: Lebanon families flee Israeli strikes
People sleeping rough at a Beirut school describe fleeing Israel's bombardment with moments to spare.
Video: Hezbollah’s deputy leader delivers defiant message
Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem has delivered the group’s first video message since the killing of its leader.
What would a ground invasion mean for Lebanon and Israel?
Israel has learned from its mistakes during the 2006 invasion, but so has Hezbollah. So what is the plan?
Trial of Le Pen in France Complicates Far-Right Leader’s Move to Mainstream – The Wall Street Journal
- Trial of Le Pen in France Complicates Far-Right Leader’s Move to Mainstream The Wall Street Journal
- France’s Le Pen and her party go on trial accused of embezzling EU funds CNN
- Marine Le Pen and other RN figures go on trial over EU fake jobs allegations The Guardian
- France’s Marine Le Pen goes on trial over EU embezzlement charges Semafor
- French far-right leader Marine Le Pen denies wrongdoing as she and her party go on trial accused of embezzling EU funds ABC News
Middle East crisis live: Hezbollah deputy says group will fight on; explosions reported in Damascus
Naim Qassem claims Israel is committing massacres of civilians in Lebanon with US support; unconfirmed reports of blasts heard in Syrian capital
Here is the video clip of US president Joe Biden saying “a broader war in the Middle East had to be averted”. Despite diplomatic efforts the US, Egypt and Qatar have been unable to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza since the 2023 deal ended ten months ago on 30 November.
Itay Blumental, who is military correspondent at Israel’s Channel 11, reports on social media that the UAV intercepted earlier by Israel’s military was targeted at infrastructure in the Karish gas field out at sea. Israel’s military has also issued a video which it says shows the interception. The Karish gas field belongs to Israel as part of a deal brokered with Lebanon over disputed waters in 2022.
Continue reading...Wilders and Orbán congratulate Austria’s far-right Freedom party on poll success – as it happened
Dutch and Hungarian politicians among those hailing result for pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam FPÖ
Karl Nehammer, Austria’s chancellor, called the result, which will send shock waves through Europe, “bitter” while his defence minister, Klaudia Tanner, admitted the debacle for the governing parties was a “wake-up call”.
Because it failed to win an absolute majority, the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) will need a partner to govern.
Continue reading...In Las Vegas, housing could make or break the battle for the White House
Nevada, once known for its low living costs, has seen house prices soar and rents climb – can Trump take advantage?
It’s 105F (41C) in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, about 20 miles away from the bustle of tourists on the Vegas strip. Front yards have small pebbles instead of grass, and signs that welcome the start of autumn seem premature in the sweltering heat.
Andrew Clarke knocks on the door of a ranch-style house. A dog barks aggressively from inside. “Hi, my name’s Andrew. I’m an organizer with For Our Future Nevada. Is Jennifer available?” Clarke asks in an upbeat voice. The voice says Jennifer doesn’t live there any more.
Continue reading...Kamala Harris’s economic policy slate more popular than Trump’s – poll
Exclusive: Harris Poll for Guardian finds Democrat put forward four of top five most popular economic proposals
Kamala Harris’s economic policies proved far more popular than Donald Trump’s plans in a blind test of their proposals.
Four of the top five most popular proposals were from the Democratic candidate’s campaign, according to a new Harris Poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian.
Continue reading...EPA will withdraw approval of Chevron plastic-based fuels likely to cause cancer
The decision comes after a ProPublica and Guardian investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a huge cancer risk
- This article is co-published with ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power
The US Environmental Protection Agency is planning to withdraw and reconsider its approval for Chevron to produce 18 plastic-based fuels, including some that an internal agency assessment found are highly likely to cause cancer.
In a recent court filing, the federal agency said it “has substantial concerns” that the approval order “may have been made in error”. The EPA gave a Chevron refinery in Mississippi the green light to make the chemicals in 2022 under a “climate-friendly” initiative intended to boost alternatives to petroleum, as ProPublica and the Guardian reported last year.
Continue reading...The deep history of British coal – from the Romans to the Ratcliffe shutdown
With the last coal-fired plant closing today, we chart the rise and fall of the once-indispensable fuel which powered modern Britain
Britain’s transition to a low-carbon future has reached a milestone with the closure of its last remaining coal-fired power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire.
The shutdown of the 57-year-old power plant on Monday ends more than 140 years of coal power generation in the UK – an industrial story closely interwoven with Britain’s socioeconomic and political history.
Continue reading...Reeves’ economy inheritance claim one of Labour’s ‘biggest lies’, Hunt tells Tory conference – UK politics live
The shadow chancellor said he ‘would have died’ to have had the legacy Rachel Reeves had when he took over
Robert Jenrick has used a campaign rally just outside the Conservative conference to paint the issue of migration in highly stark terms, saying his party will “die” if it does not commit to quitting the European convention on human rights. (See 8.23am.)
Speaking to supporters in a studio theatre at Birmingham Rep, Jenrick repeated his styling of the issue in Brexit terms, saying the choice was between the “leave” of leaving the ECHR or “remain” of staying in it, and that this was a chance to “get migration done”.
This is more than just, ‘leave or amend’ – frankly, our party doesn’t have a future unless we take a stand and fix this problem. It’s leave or die for our party – I’m for leave.
Foreign national offenders in our country,who we have struggled to deport because of our membership of the European Convention on Human Rights – that’s the issue I was raising.
What is the biggest challenge we face as a party?
Our biggest strategic challenge is the fact that the average age above which you are more likely to vote Conservative than Labour is now over 60.
Continue reading...Japan’s incoming PM Ishiba calls snap vote
Newly-elected Shigeru Ishiba emphasises need for immediate public approval of new administration.
Police ‘groomed’ Melbourne lawyer turned informer Nicola Gobbo, court hears
Mounting deaths in Melbourne’s gangland wars heaped pressure on detectives, court told
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Nicola Gobbo was a young and vulnerable barrister “looking for a way out” of dealing with gangland clients like Tony Mokbel when police saw an opportunity, her lawyers claim.
At 25 years old, the youngest woman in Victoria to sign the bar roll, suddenly found herself “neck deep” in the underworld and feared for her personal safety and wellbeing.
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