Moldova formally protests alleged Russian election meddling
Chisinau accuses Moscow of undermining democratic process and condemned drones flown over its territory.
At least 35 killed by car ramming in China’s Zhuhai
Police say a 62-year-old suspect drove his car into a crowd in southern Zhuhai, also injuring 43 people.
We can hit UK’s big carbon cut without disruption to people’s lives, says Starmer – UK politics live
PM confirms target of 81% emissions cut at Cop climate summit but says ‘I’m not going to tell people how to live their lives’
Leadbeater introduces the next speaker, Nat Dye, who has terminal cancer. She says she thinks his views are the most important for people to hear at this press conference.
He says he has known “positive” experiences of death. His fiance and his mother both had relatively peaceful deaths. He says palliative care can work for some people.
Imagine I am dying and palliative care hasn’t improved. Well, I have no choice whatsoever: I die in pain or I die in pain.
I see this as a chance just to act with kindness and a choice for people at their darkest hour.
Continue reading...Aid entering Gaza is lowest in months, says Unrwa, as US deadline approaches – Middle East crisis, as it happened
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Images sent over the news wires show smoke billowing over Beirut after Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital.
Lebanese media is reporting that two people have been killed and six wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Hermel, which is in the north-east of the country near the border with Syria.
Continue reading...Trump lining up Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem for top jobs
Trump could name Rubio as his secretary of state and Noem as his homeland security secretary, US media say.
Growing pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say – ABC News
- Growing pollution in Pakistan's Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say ABC News
- India, Pakistan blanketed in smog so thick, it's visible from space: See pictures USA TODAY
- How India, Pakistan and China Might Cooperate on Air Quality Forbes
- Lahore smog: Pollution hits record levels in Pakistan city BBC.com
- Hundreds hospitalised in Pakistan as smog reaches record levels Al Jazeera English
Remarkably resilient refugees: A teen on his own, a woman who was raped : Goats and Soda – NPR
Trump nominates Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new efficiency department to ‘restructure federal agencies’ – live
Tesla CEO and onetime Republican presidential hopeful put forward to lead department to ‘dismantle government bureaucracy’
Joe Biden is meeting with two foreign leaders at the White House today.
At 11.15am, he will speak with Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, then with Indonesia’s president, Prabowo Subianto, at 2pm.
Continue reading...Starmer refuses to back Justin Welby after clamor for archbishop to resign
Prime minister says victims of serial abuser John Smyth ‘failed very, very badly’
Keir Starmer has refused to back the archbishop of Canterbury, who has faced growing demands to resign over his handling of an abuse scandal.
Pressure on Justin Welby has been intensifying since the publication last week of a damning report on the church’s cover-up of John Smyth’s abuse in the UK in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and later in Zimbabwe and South Africa. About 130 boys are believed to have been victims.
Continue reading...Ugandan TikTokers held for insulting first family
They are accused of hate speech as rights groups say the law is being used to restrict freedoms.
BBC confirms Gary Lineker’s departure from Match of the Day
Corporation says presenter will quit highlights programme at end of 2024-25 season but will cover 2026 World Cup
Gary Lineker is to step down as the presenter of Match of the Day at the end of the season, the BBC has said.
The BBC confirmed earlier reports that Lineker would stay with the broadcaster to cover the FA Cup in 2025-26 and the 2026 Fifa World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico, but step back from its flagship highlights programme at the end of the 2024-25 season.
Continue reading...Metro Bank fined nearly £17m for failure to monitor potential money laundering
Problems were raised by junior staff three years before they were completely resolved, says FCA
Metro Bank has been fined nearly £17m by the UK’s financial watchdog for failings in its money-laundering controls over four years, in a fresh blow to the lender a year on from its near-collapse.
In a surprise announcement that also triggered the early release of Metro’s third-quarter results on Tuesday morning, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it had found shortfalls in the bank’s financial crime checks between 2016 and 2020.
Continue reading...Girl, 17, who died after being hit by car on M5 had fled police vehicle
Avon and Somerset police referred themselves to watchdog, who said girl was being transported to custody
A teenage girl who was killed by a car while on foot on the M5 had fled a police vehicle before she was struck, it has emerged.
Avon and Somerset police said the motorway was closed between Bridgwater and Taunton in Somerset after the fatal collision involving a pedestrian and a car at 11pm on Monday.
Continue reading...Starmer warns against climate ‘inaction’ as Trump looms over COP29 – POLITICO Europe
- Starmer warns against climate ‘inaction’ as Trump looms over COP29 POLITICO Europe
- UK commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions must be ‘starting point, not finish line’, climate advisers say – Cop29 day two, as it happened The Guardian
- Starmer: New UK target for 81% emissions cut by 2035 BBC.com
- Sir Keir Starmer tells private sector to 'start paying their fair share' on global climate change Sky News
- Starmer and Trump on collision course over climate change ambitions as PM unveils bold target The Independent
Trump eyeing hawks and neocons for top foreign policy/NatSec roles – Responsible Statecraft
- Trump eyeing hawks and neocons for top foreign policy/NatSec roles Responsible Statecraft
- China Is Enemy No. 1 for Trump’s New Team Bloomberg
- Trump’s First 3 Foreign-Policy Moves Foreign Policy
- Moderate Dems breathe early sigh of relief over several Trump picks — including Elise Stefanik New York Post
- Trump continues appointments with key foreign policy picks DW (English)
Dozens killed in China after car driven into sports centre
Man detained after incident on Monday night in Zhuhai, in which 35 people were killed and 43 injured
A driver killed 35 people and severely injured another 43 when he rammed his car into people exercising at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, police said on Tuesday.
Police had detained a 62-year-old man at the sports centre in Zhuhai after the ramming late on Monday, on the eve of an airshow by the People’s Liberation Army that is hosted annually in the city.
Continue reading...Trump reportedly picks Kristi Noem to run homeland security department
South Dakota governor, whose VP chances evaporated after admitting shooting her dog, tipped as DHS secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has picked the South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing two sources.
Noem, once seen as a possible running mate for Trump, is currently serving her second four-year term as South Dakota’s governor after a landslide re-election victory in 2022. She rose to national prominence after refusing to impose a statewide mask mandate during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading...Subsea cables to help Britain meet green energy goal get green light
Ofgem gives green light to five interconnectors capable of powering millions of homes
Projects to lay five subsea power cables capable of powering millions of homes have been given the green light as Great Britain prepares to use its giant offshore windfarms to become a net exporter of green electricity in the 2030s.
The energy regulator, Ofgem, has approved three subsea cable projects linking Great Britain to power grids in Germany, Ireland and Northern Ireland to help share renewable electricity across borders.
Continue reading...Head of New Orleans’ embattled Catholic archdiocese offers to resign
Gregory Aymond’s offer, required because he turns 75, says he wants to stay for resolution of institution’s bankruptcy but adds it is up to Pope Francis
New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archbishop Gregory Aymond is submitting his resignation Tuesday, on his 75th birthday, fulfilling a church requirement – though it is unclear if Vatican officials would immediately accept it with his scandal-plagued organization’s expensive, highly contentious bankruptcy case still unresolved.
In a letter issued on Friday to priests and deacons under his command, Aymond cited canon – or church – law that required him to offer to retire because of his age. But he said he also offered to remain in office until the resolution of the bankruptcy.
Continue reading...German backpacker was probably killed by her boyfriend, NSW inquest hears
Investigator of 2005 cold case says it was ‘probable’ Tobias Moran killed Simone Strobel, despite charges being dropped
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The lead investigator in the cold case of backpacker Simone Strobel has told an inquest he still believes she was probably killed by her boyfriend.
Strobel’s naked body was found hidden under palm fronds at a sports ground in Lismore in the New South Wales northern rivers region in February 2005, six days after she was reported missing.
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