What’s happening in new battles for Sudan’s capital
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How young people are changing the world of politics
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Barcelona fans banned for one Champions League game for Nazi-style flag
Barcelona fans banned from Red Star Belgrade trip following UEFA 'racism and/or other discriminatory conduct' charge.
Yemen’s Houthis claim attacks on Israeli cities, US warships
Iran-aligned group says it will continue its attacks on Israel until its 'aggression on Lebanon and Gaza stops'.
UN hostility will not trouble Netanyahu, but now he has angered the US | Patrick Wintour
Tension between the Israeli PM and the UN has never been so high, but his behaviour over the Lebanon ceasefire has given him a bigger problem
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has for decades used set-piece speeches to the UN to denounce it. In 2017, he said it had been “the epicentre of global antisemitism” and there was “no limit to the UN’s absurdities when it comes to Israel”, but never have the tensions between him and the body he reviles reached such a pitch.
Since the 7 October massacre by Hamas, Israel has ignored four UN resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and has not just described the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa as a terrorist state, but launched a campaign to bankrupt it. Arab envoys have walked out when the Israeli ambassador has started to speak.
Continue reading...Argentina records sharp rise in poverty – BBC.com
- Argentina records sharp rise in poverty BBC.com
- Argentina’s poverty rate spikes in first 6 months of President Milei’s shock therapy The Associated Press
- Poverty in Argentina soars by over 50% as government austerity bites CNN
- Argentina’s poverty rate soars above 50% under Javier Milei Financial Times
- Argentina’s poverty rate soars above 50 percent under ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Milei FRANCE 24 English
Rupert Murdoch’s REA Group raises offer to buy Rightmove to £6.2bn
Australian group calls on Rightmove board to ‘engage now’ after fourth offer for UK online property portal
Rupert Murdoch’s REA Group has made a fourth attempt to buy Rightmove, increasing its offer to £6.2bn as it steps up its pursuit of the UK’s largest online property portal.
The Australian property group, which is controlled by News Corp, raised its cash and shares offer from the £6.1bn offered earlier this week and called on Rightmove’s board to “engage now” after it refused repeatedly to meet the suitor.
Continue reading...Putin draws a nuclear red line for the West – USA TODAY
- Putin draws a nuclear red line for the West USA TODAY
- Putin revises his nuclear doctrine, but have his red lines shifted? CNN
- Russia rattles the nuclear sabre again, as Ukraine devastates its munitions Al Jazeera English
- The Unthinkable: What Nuclear War In Europe Would Look Like Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- Putin reveals new rules on nuclear weapons in Russia's latest warning to the West CNBC
Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for throwing soup on Sunflowers – BBC.com
- Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for throwing soup on Sunflowers BBC.com
- Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers The Guardian
- Protesters Who Threw Soup on Van Gogh Painting Sentenced to Jail artnet News
- Sent down for throwing soup? Judge Hehir turns state repression into an art form Just Stop Oil
- Fresh attack on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after Just Stop Oil activists jailed The Telegraph
Israel bombs compound of Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital, killing one person
Assault targets area sheltering displaced Palestinians, destroying 18 tents and injuring seven people.
Chinese nuclear-powered submarine sank this year, US official says – Reuters
- Chinese nuclear-powered submarine sank this year, US official says Reuters
- Guess Where the Possibly Nuclear-Fuel-Leaking Sunken Chinese Submarine Is? National Review
- China's New Nuclear Submarine Sinks: Xi Jinping's Naval Power Claims Demolished Amid Sea Face-Offs? Hindustan Times
- Exclusive | China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military Modernization The Wall Street Journal
- China’s newest nuclear submarine sank in dock, US officials confirm The Guardian
Swiss court takes trans child away from parents over their objections to puberty blockers – Fox News
Israeli moderately hurt by shrapnel as Hezbollah barrages target Tiberias, Haifa – The Times of Israel
- Israeli moderately hurt by shrapnel as Hezbollah barrages target Tiberias, Haifa The Times of Israel
- Israel attacks Lebanon: Air attacks kill 25 people in Lebanon since dawn Al Jazeera English
- PM vows Israel to continue striking Hezbollah ‘until all our objectives are met’ The Times of Israel
- Benjamin Netanyahu vows to keep fighting Hizbollah Financial Times
- Live updates: Netanyahu to address UN after dashing US hopes of quick ceasefire in Lebanon CNN
Lebanon ceasefire hopes fade as Netanyahu issues contradictory statements
Twin statements by Israeli PM appear to wrongfoot US officials ahead of his speech at UN general assembly
Optimism that a three-week ceasefire could be reached between Hezbollah and Israel appeared to recede as Benjamin Netanyahu issued a pair of contradictory statements on the proposal within hours of each other, as fresh Israeli strikes on Lebanon in the early hours of Friday killed 25 people.
In the latest statement from Netanyahu’s office, issued overnight on Friday, the Israeli prime minister chided reporting on the issue as he confirmed Israel had been consulted regarding a US-led ceasefire proposal.
Continue reading...‘Clear timeline’ for Palestinian statehood needed: Penny Wong escalates language in UN speech
Penny Wong says she shares frustration of ‘great majority of countries’ about a lack of progress to recognise a Palestinian state
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Australia has suggested the world should set “a clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood” in a sign of increasing frustration about the stalled peace process.
The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, will float the idea in a speech to the UN general assembly in New York on Saturday Australian time (Friday US time). Benjamin Netanyahu was also due to address the gathering amid mounting concern about an escalating regional war.
Continue reading...Myanmar rebels reject embattled junta’s peace offer – BBC.com
- Myanmar rebels reject embattled junta's peace offer BBC.com
- Myanmar junta urges armed opposition to join political fold in elections Reuters
- Myanmar military urges anti-coup forces to give up struggle and join talks Al Jazeera English
- Myanmar junta sends unexpected peace offer to armed groups after big battlefield upsets Firstpost
- Myanmar Junta Seeks Peace Talks After Losing Ground in Conflict Bloomberg
Caribbean island Anguilla grieving Shawn Seesahai machete murder – BBC.com
- Caribbean island Anguilla grieving Shawn Seesahai machete murder BBC.com
- Two boys believed to be UK's youngest knife murderers detained for minimum of eight years and six months Sky News
- Two boys, 13, receive eight-year minimum terms for Wolverhampton machete murder The Guardian
- Boys, 12, who murdered Shawn Seesahai by punching, kicking, stamping on and hacking innocent teen to death wit Daily Mail
- Britain's Youngest Killers in 30 Years Sentenced for Machete Attack U.S. News & World Report
Argentina records sharp rise in poverty
More than half of people in Argentina are now living in poverty, latest figures indicate.
‘Absolute chaos’: counting the cost of a deadly wildfire in northern Portugal
Residents of Albergaria-a-Velha tell of the fear and losses brought by a blaze that evoked memories of 2017 disaster
The fires are out in Albergaria-a-Velha now, their embers washed away by the heavy rain. But their reek still carries on the damp air, rising from the sooty earth, the scorched tree trunks, the burnt-out cars and houses, and the puddles of black and acrid water.
If the numbers offer a glimpse of the toll that last week’s wildfires took on this northern Portuguese municipality – four people dead, at least seven injured, 25,269 hectares burned and 81 homes damaged – they cannot convey the sense of fear and loss that the 26-metre-high flames brought with them.
Continue reading...São Paulo election ‘a horror show’ as candidates trade blows and insults
Two televised debates ahead of 6 October mayoral election turn physically violent, with participants treated in hospital
Brazilians call overcast São Paulo their country’s “land of drizzle”.
But in recent months it has been raining punches not precipitation as Latin America’s largest city endures what observers call the most violent and unruly election in its history.
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