- Soccer player, family injured in Bellevue home explosion, club says WOWT
- 'I'm just happy to be here': 3 injured, 2 families displaced after duplex explosion KETV Omaha
- Propane leak believed to be cause of house explosion in Bellevue; 3 suffer severe burns Omaha World-Herald
- 'When I came out it was like a movie scene' : Explosion in Bellevue leaves three in critical condition KMTV 3 News Now Omaha
- Three injured when Bellevue home explodes KLKN
Robot retrieves radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima nuclear reactor site
Plant’s owners hope analysis of tiny sample will help to establish how to safely decommission facility
A piece of the radioactive fuel left from the meltdown of Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been retrieved from the site using a remote-controlled robot.
Investigators used the robot’s fishing-rod-like arm to clip and collect a tiny piece of radioactive material from one of the plant’s three damaged reactors – the first time such a feat has been achieved. Should it prove suitable for testing, scientists hope the sample will yield information that will help determine how to decommission the plant.
Continue reading...Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists
Representatives of 196 countries have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, as part of the COP biodiversity summit.
Robot retrieves radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima nuclear reactor site – The Guardian
- Robot retrieves radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima nuclear reactor site The Guardian
- A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor The Associated Press
- Nuclear fuel debris retrieved at Tepco Fukushima plant The Japan Times
- TEPCO progressing in melted fuel extraction from Fukushima nuclear reactor Kyodo News Plus
- Japan to resume trial removal of Fukushima nuclear debris, reports say The Japan Times
World’s largest crocodile in captivity, Cassius, died in Australia at a wildlife sanctuary – CBS News
- World's largest crocodile in captivity, Cassius, died in Australia at a wildlife sanctuary CBS News
- World's largest crocodile in captivity dies after living over 100 years WKRC TV Cincinnati
- World's largest captive crocodile dies aged 110 Sky News
- Cassius, the world's largest crocodile in captivity, dies in Far North Queensland ABC News
- RIP Cassius: The giant record breaking crocodile has died at roughly 110 years old The Independent
In Context: What Trump said about Cheney facing a firing squad
With widespread interpretations of Trump’s remarks, we review his comments in their original context
Donald Trump targets Liz Cheney as he courts Arab, Muslim voters
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump again attacked Republican ex-lawmaker Liz Cheney.
Iran claims it can build nukes, threatens Israel and US with ‘tooth-breaking’ retaliation – New York Post
- 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
- When is Day of the Dead 2024? What it means and how to celebrate in Louisville Courier Journal
- 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.