Fifth foreign firm pulls out of controversial Israeli cable car project to East Jerusalem

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Rights groups say the planned 1.4km route, which ends at compound run by far-right settler group Elad, will displace Palestinians and reshape the cultural landscape

A fifth foreign company has pulled out of a plan to build a cable car from West to East Jerusalem that threatens to involve the seizure of land and property rights from dozens of Palestinian families along its route, but local authorities insist the scheme is proceeding as planned.

The project appeared to have stalled for four years until late September, just weeks before Israel’s 27 October elections, when the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA) issued a notice of intent to award a contract without a public tender to ROPES, a cable car engineering consultancy based in South Tyrol, Italy.

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Police charge accused Brendan Nugent with additional offences – as it happened

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Independent MP’s condition remains critical on Wednesday after surgery to save her remaining leg

Anthony Albanese has described the police interview on Tuesday with Brendan Nugent as “extensive” but that the motivation of the alleged “violent” attack against Helen Haines is still unknown.

Certainly, it’s a reminder that the world is a more dangerous and divided place than it was a generation ago.

But I think that Australians do want to see their politicians be able to go about their business, to be able to get something from the back of their car, for goodness sake.

My side, every side included. We all have to recognise that politics has got more aggressive.

The particular impact on women in politics … [They] have got a different form of vilification and aggression towards them as well.

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Fast-fashion giant Shein outperforms several Australian retailers on ethics, report says

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Ghanda and Windsor Smith are among lowest-rated in Baptist World Aid ethical fashion report based on metrics such as wages and sustainability

Online fast-fashion giant Shein is outperforming many Australian high street retailers on ethical standards, according to an industry review.

The 11th Baptist World Aid ethical fashion report, released on Tuesday, assessed the ethical practices of 138 Australian and international companies, representing 543 fashion brands.

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University of Arizona sorority member alleges sexual assault at fraternity house

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Student told the university’s police department that assault by two men occurred in August during a night of drinking

A sorority member at the University of Arizona has alleged she was sexually assaulted by two men at a fraternity house during a night of drinking in late August.

The student told the university’s police department that she consensually kissed one of the men at one point while at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on 26 August but doesn’t remember agreeing to sex, according to search warrant records posted Monday night by KOLD-TV in Tucson.

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Mariah Carey wins dismissal of brother’s defamation lawsuit over her memoir

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Morgan Carey sued his sister over claims in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, which he said falsely portrayed him as a violent drug dealer

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit from Mariah Carey’s brother, five years after he accused her of defaming him in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.

In the memoir, Carey described Morgan as a “sometimes drug dealing, been-in-the-system, drunk-ass brother” and called him her “ex-brother”.

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Nigeria confirms Ebola case as outbreak spreads into western Africa

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Case in Africa’s most populous country was detected in a woman who had travelled from Uganda

Nigeria has confirmed an Ebola case in its capital, Abuja, after a woman who arrived from Uganda tested positive for the virus, the health ministry said.

The woman began showing symptoms on 7 October and was admitted to a hospital in Abuja four days later, where she was later diagnosed with Ebola. It is unclear when she arrived in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country.

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Florida kills 77-year-old man in state’s 18th execution of year

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Vietnam veteran William Reaves executed by lethal injection despite letter from fellow veterans urging halt

Florida carried out its 18th execution of the year on Tuesday under Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s aggressive use of the death penalty in his final term.

William Reaves, 77, was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a three-drug injection at Florida state prison near Starke. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1986 shooting death of Indian River county deputy Richard Raczkowski.

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Alabama governor commutes sentence of prisoner on death row

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Toforest Johnson’s death penalty reduced to life in prison without parole over doubts about his conviction

Toforest Johnson, an Alabama death row inmate, will no longer face execution after the state’s Republican governor commuted his sentence amid increasing doubts about his conviction.

Kay Ivey, the Alabama governor, commuted Johnson’s sentence to life in prison without parole in the 1995 murder of William Hardy, a Jefferson county deputy sheriff. Johnson has long maintained he is innocent, and several former public officials, as well the local district attorney, have argued he should receive a new trial.

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Italy to deploy 500 troops to Milan after days of protests and looting

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Government planning tougher security measures as France also says military forces will be deployed

Italy’s government is sending 500 soldiers to Milan and vowed a “firm response from the state” after protests against the cost of living descended into clashes with police, vandalism and looting. Further demonstrations are planned on Saturday.

The government of the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, also announced new security measures, including an offence of violent participation in ⁠a demonstration, tougher penalties for ⁠rioters, and financial liability for ​parents whose children take part in vandalism and looting.

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US has resumed sharing intelligence with Ukraine about Russian strikes, says Zelenskyy

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Advance warnings of missile attacks were seemingly suspended last week by the White House, but Ukraine’s president says: ‘Now it works’

The US has resumed sharing intelligence with Kyiv about Russian missile strikes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday after a meeting with the US envoy Steve Witkoff in Norway.

He said Ukraine was again receiving advance warnings of ballistic missile attacks, which were seemingly suspended last week by the White House. “Now it works. It’s great,” he said, adding that the US move would save lives.

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RFK Jr’s ‘deities of vaccine research’ raided by police in Guinea-Bissau

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Police seize doses of hepatitis B vaccine from people at center of dispute over research on African newborns

Controversial vaccine researchers who have been praised by Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, had their offices in Guinea-Bissau raided by judicial police, who seized doses of hepatitis B vaccines, officials said on Facebook.

The researchers have been at the heart of an ongoing dispute over research on African newborns, supported by $1.6m from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and matched by the Pershing Square Foundation and the Bluebell Foundation for a total of $3.2m.

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Senior Reform official cast doubt over legality of huge donations

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Exclusive: Admission from James Orr to undercover reporter came three months before party was given £72m

A senior Reform UK official raised questions about whether major donations from billionaire backers Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo would be legal under the proposed new foreign donors cap three months before they gave £72m to the party.

James Orr, who was then Reform UK’s head of policy and a Cambridge professor, discussed potential difficulties around future donations from Harborne and Delo in undercover footage captured by the investigative reporting group Verbatim.

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UK to deploy fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks

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RAF Typhoon fighters to fly defensive missions over cities and infrastructure in extension of UK support for Riyadh

RAF Typhoon fighters are to be used in efforts to protect Saudi Arabia from attack by Yemen’s Houthis, flying protective missions over the country’s cities and critical infrastructure as western allies increase their intervention in the escalating conflict.

The operation – the most significant military mission signed off by Andy Burnham as prime minister – will involve RAF pilots attempting to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones, which attacked Saudi airports and oil facilities.

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Russell Brand told woman to ‘clear up the mess you’ve made’ after alleged rape, court hears

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Woman says alleged assault at comedian’s London home was one of most painful experiences of her life

A woman has said she “couldn’t speak or breathe” when Russell Brand raped her at his London townhouse after picking her out from a crowd after one of his gigs, a court has heard.

She said the comedian looked “horrified” after the alleged attack so she assumed he would apologise but instead he told her: “Clear up the mess you’ve made.”

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‘Bad decisions’: Man convicted for taking Peachy the flamingo from Las Vegas hotel

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Mitchell Fairbarn found guilty of animal cruelty after prosecutors say he hurt and frightened the 27-year-old bird

A Canadian man was convicted of animal cruelty charges on Monday for snatching a flamingo named Peachy from its enclosure at an iconic Las Vegas hotel.

Prosecutors said it was a malicious prank while a lawyer for the tourist insisted it was drunken foolishness not meant to harm the bird.

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Flavio Bolsonaro’s ‘corrupto’ stunt sparks viral meme before Brazil election runoff

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Far-right presidential candidate’s TV debate swipe at rival backfires as people take to social media to parody it

To Flávio Bolsonaro and his publicists, it must have seemed an ingenious idea that would expose his rival’s supposed crookedness on the eve of Brazil’s presidential election.

But the far-right politician’s decision to attend a primetime television debate against his leftwing opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the word “corrupto” (corrupt) written on the palm of his hand has backfired.

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Zelenskyy meets with Trump envoys as U.S. blasts ‘scandalous’ accusations on withdrawn support – NBC News

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  1. Zelenskyy meets with Trump envoys as U.S. blasts ‘scandalous’ accusations on withdrawn support  NBC News
  2. Zelensky prepares for Oslo talks with US envoys as Rubio denies withholding intelligence  BBC
  3. Witkoff to meet Zelenskyy before travelling to Moscow  Financial Times
  4. Zelenskiy to meet Witkoff after Trump says Russia has been 'fine' on Ukraine  Reuters
  5. Zelenskyy to meet with U.S. envoy as tensions with Trump mount  CNBC
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Russia is working ‘closely’ with Iran as Qatar says US-Tehran talks are still on – Fox News

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  1. Russia is working 'closely' with Iran as Qatar says US-Tehran talks are still on  Fox News
  2. Diplomatic visits attempt to hold off all-out US-Iran war  The New Arab
  3. Iran agreed to secret nuclear site visits in shift towards compromise, report says  investingLive
  4. US said to agree to free $6B in Iranian frozen funds  Breakingthenews.net
  5. Qatar: Lack of Updates on US-Iran Talks a Positive Sign  ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English
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France Protests Show Europe’s Shift Away From Centrist Politics – The New York Times

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  1. France Protests Show Europe’s Shift Away From Centrist Politics  The New York Times
  2. From France to Albania, social unrest is setting Europe’s streets ablaze  AP News
  3. From Paris to Milan: student protests across Europe – in pictures  The Guardian
  4. What’s making Europe so angry? The frustration behind the protests  CNBC
  5. Cost of living unrest fuels the rise of Europe's far-right  Yahoo
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