- Iran claims it can build nukes, threatens Israel and US with ‘tooth-breaking’ retaliation New York Post
- Iran signals possible change in its nuclear doctrine NBC News
- 'Discourse of destruction': Iran expert says Iranian retaliation guaranteed The Jerusalem Post
- Iran claims it is capable of building nuclear weapon as Ayatollah vows ‘tooth-breaking’ response to Israel, US Fox News
- Strategic restraint is the wisest course in confronting Iran’s nuclear program The Hill
As Mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead, they grapple with what it means to hold on to tradition – The Associated Press
- As Mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead, they grapple with what it means to hold on to tradition The Associated Press
- Pets join Mexico's Day of the Dead celebrations, as Fido and Tiger get their own altars KUTV 2News
- The Pets We’ve Lost Have Their Very Own Day of the Dead VICE
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- News in brief The Post and Courier
Iran’s supreme leader says enemies will receive ‘crushing response’
The threat comes a week after Israel attacked Iran, raising fears that retaliation will escalate to war.
Tory leadership election live: Kemi Badenoch elected new Conservative leader
Badenoch says Tories need ‘a clear plan to change this country by changing the way that government works’
Here are the results from previous Conservative leadership contests, and from the final MPs’ ballot of this contest, that will help put today’s results in context.
2024 contest
The choice is between two people who each played their part in 14 years of Conservative chaos and decline, and who have refused to apologise it.
Whoever wins, they have learnt nothing.
Continue reading...Israel captures Lebanese sea captain and claims he is a Hezbollah operative – as it happened
Navy confirms it landed in Batroun, 30km north of Beirut, and took him to Israel to be ‘investigated’
Troops were also operating in central Gaza and Rafah in the territory’s far south, the Israeli military said, while witnesses told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Israeli drones and boats opened fire on al-Mawasi in south Gaza.
Medics and Gaza’s civil defence rescuers on Saturday reported three people killed in a strike on Nuseirat, in central Gaza, a day after AFP images showed the blood-stained shrouds of several people killed there in an Israeli strike.
The entire Palestinian population in north Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence.”
Continue reading...Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election
Conservative party announces Badenoch has beaten rival Robert Jenrick in ballot of party members
Kemi Badenoch is the new Conservative party leader after defeating Robert Jenrick in a members’ vote, becoming the first Black leader of a major UK party and the fourth woman to lead the Tories.
Badenoch took just over 56% of the 95,000 votes, in a poll that had a 73% turnout of eligible members. This amounts to the narrowest win of the four since the party changed its rules to allow party members the final say in contested leadership elections.
Continue reading...US politics live: Women’s marches hit the streets in support of Harris as both candidates target east coast – as it happened
Harris leading Trump in new Iowa poll in startling reversal, pulling ahead of Trump 47% to 44%
Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump head to North Carolina on Saturday to try to clinch support in the south-eastern battleground state just three days before Tuesday’s US presidential election.
It will be the fourth day in a row that vice-president Harris and former president Trump visit the same state on the same day, underlining the critical importance of the seven states likely to decide the race, which opinion polls show to be on a knife’s edge, Reuters reported.
Continue reading...The Gaza factor in the US election
Voters distraught over the war in Gaza are torn between Harris and Trump.
Pakistani firm apologises for directing Dubliners to nonexistent Halloween event
Thousands lined streets of Irish capital waiting for falsely advertised Mácnas parade after website’s ‘human error’
A Pakistan-based company has issued an embarrassed apology to Dubliners after a “human error” on its events website led to thousands of people turning up on the Irish capital’s main thoroughfare for a nonexistent Halloween parade.
Footage on Thursday night showed throngs of people lining both sides of O’Connell Street waiting for a supposed procession of giant Halloween puppets made by one of Ireland’s best known theatre groups, the Galway performance company Mácnas.
Continue reading...Why many Arab voters in Michigan are flocking to Trump ahead of US election
Former president is gaining support in Arab community amid anger with Harris over Israel's war on Gaza and Lebanon.
Shark bites off surfer’s leg in Hawaii
A 61-year-old man was surfing on Friday morning when a shark bit him, completely severing his leg
A shark bit a Maui surfer on Friday and severed his leg, authorities said.
The man, 61, was surfing off Waiehu Beach Park on Friday morning when a shark bit him. Police officers who arrived to the scene first tried to control the bleeding with tourniquets. His right leg was “completely severed just below the knee,” Maui county said in a news release.
Continue reading...Hard to overstate challenges Kemi Badenoch faces as leader of the opposition
There are questions over whether new Tory leader can hold splintered party together, or even piece together a worthy shadow cabinet
Kemi Badenoch might have avoided the cursed 52%-48% ratio which has riven the Conservative party before, but the close-run nature of her 56.5% winning margin in the Tory members’ vote shows the scale of the task before her.
It is hard to overstate the challenges Rishi Sunak’s replacement faces, even setting aside the much-cited fact that the last new UK leader to take a party directly from an election defeat to government was Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
Continue reading...US election: How will results affect wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan?
Several wars raging around the globe could escalate or peter out based on the stance of the next US president.
Spain deploys 10,000 more soldiers and police to flooded Valencia region
Spain's deadliest natural disaster in memory leaves 211 dead while dozens are still missing.
‘It’s created an internal shitstorm’: turmoil at UK law firm accused of ‘whitewashing’ Saudi World Cup report
Sources say key people at Clifford Chance were not consulted, as it emerges another company refused job due to reputational concerns
When the Saudi crown prince locked nearly 400 of his country’s most powerful people in a luxury hotel in 2017 and stripped them of their fortunes, a UK law firm allegedly played a significant role.
On the orders of Mohammed bin Salman, Clifford Chance - a “magic circle” legal giant with headquarters in London – was reported to have facilitated the forced transfer of assets from a Saudi TV station to the government.
Continue reading...Indiana prosecutors claim man confessed to killing two teens on hiking trail in 2017
Richard Allen’s alleged admission came after investigators struggled over case of Liberty German and Abigail Williams
Prosecutors in the trial of Richard Allen, who is accused of killing two teenage girls in Indiana, continued this week to build their case with testimony from a prison psychologist and law enforcement officials who lent credence to the allegation that Allen confessed to the murders while in prison in 2023.
Allen’s alleged admissions came after investigators struggled for years to find the person who killed Liberty “Libby” German, 14, and Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, in 2017 on a hiking trail outside the small town of Delphi.
Continue reading...US students score win in push for fossil fuel divestment by private high schools
Concerned students press for their high schools – some with $1bn endowments – to reinvest in clean energy
A high school in California has decided not to invest in coal, oil or gas, instead pledging to put money into clean energy. It’s the latest win in a new fossil fuel divestment campus campaign launched by high schoolers across 11 countries that is gaining support in the US.
The Nueva School, an elite private school outside San Francisco, pledged in spring 2024 to invest a portion of its $55m endowment in renewable power. The commitment followed months of pressure from students.
Continue reading...Death toll rises as protesters rage against Mozambique election result
Police accused of killing at least 11 unarmed bystanders since 24 October, amid claims poll was rigged
Silvio Jeremias was on his way home from his job at a petrol station on the night of 25 October, in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, when he and his friends happened upon a group of protesters demonstrating against that day’s election results.
The ruling Frelimo party’s presidential candidate Daniel Chapo secured 70.7% of the vote, according to official results, ensuring the party that has ruled Mozambique since independence in 1975 remained in power, but there were widespread allegations of rigging.
Continue reading...Kemi Badenoch elected leader of UK’s Conservative Party
Badenoch replaces former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, will be opposition leader after party's crushing election defeat.
Elon Musk’s canvassing operation sued in California for alleged labor law violations
Plaintiffs accuse America Pac of several violations during its operation to support Orange county’s Michelle Steel
Elon Musk’s troubled canvassing operation on behalf of Donald Trump and the Republican party is now facing a lawsuit in southern California filed by two women who say they were cheated out of wages and expenses as they knocked on doors for an embattled Republican congresswoman.
The suit accuses Musk’s America PAC, which has poured more than $100m into this year’s election campaign, of “willful violations of the California labor code” by paying the plaintiffs less than it promised and refusing to make up the difference.
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