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Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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The GuardianHumanity
IDF accused of working with settlers after latest deadly West Bank raid

IDF accused of working with settlers after latest deadly West Bank raid

Residents of Deir Jarir say raids that killed two Palestinians late on Sunday are part of pattern of violenceEven by the brutal standards of militant settler violence in the West Bank, the raid on Deir Jarir late on Sunday night that killed two Palestinians and left another in hospital with a gunshot wound was extreme.Palestinians in the town said settlers from a nearby outpost arrived after 9pm on Sunday claiming that they were searching for stolen livestock. Israeli soldiers and police soon joined them, protecting them as they sought to take several villagers’ sheep by force.

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The GuardianScandalIndia
India’s Cockroach movement protesters show no sign of backing down

India’s Cockroach movement protesters show no sign of backing down

Thousands of people again on the streets of Delhi calling for education reforms despite police violence on MondayTaru had come to the protest prepared this time. In one hand was an anti-government poster and in the other was a bicycle helmet. “We need to have protection in case Delhi police beat us up again,” said the 25-year-old, who stood among her friends. “We are not scared of them and we won’t run away, no matter what they do. We’ll stay here till they listen.”On Tuesday, central Delhi still thronged with thousands of protesters, as an unprecedented expression of dissent against the powerful ruling Narendra Modi government showed no sign of abating.

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The GuardianHumanity
‘She was almost a Batman figure’: Mexico’s avenging Mother Courage

‘She was almost a Batman figure’: Mexico’s avenging Mother Courage

After her son disappeared, Isabel Miranda de Wallace swore she would bring the culprits to justice. She became a national hero. But did she go too far?When her son, Hugo, failed to answer his phone on the morning of 12 July 2005, Isabel Miranda de Wallace did not waste a moment. Everyone knew that kidnappings were rife in Mexico City, and Wallace immediately enlisted her brother and nephew to help with the search. They walked the streets near Hugo’s last known location until they came across his SUV. A passerby told them they’d seen someone being forced out of his car and into a nearby apartment, Wallace later said. She also described speaking to a boy who had heard gunshots and seen an injured man being led out of the apartment around 4am. “Within 24 hours, we found his car, then the building where they took my son. We had the case practically solved,” Wallace later said. “But the police didn’t believe us.”At that time, many kidnapping cases went unreported, as families feared that the police couldn’t be trusted. Those who did go to the police often struggled to get them to take their complaints seriously. But Wallace was different. She was a successful businesswoman, who had set up an advertising agency that owned and operated billboards across Mexico City. “She didn’t beg or say please,” said Federico Döring, a politician and an early ally of Wallace. “She would point her finger at public officials not doing their job – and this was unheard of,” Döring told me. “In Mexico, a lot of people are often afraid to speak up because you don’t know if a politician is in bed with the cartels. That intimidates them, but it didn’t intimidate her.”

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The GuardianEconomy
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet

‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet

Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumersA “modern leather” table lamp, listed online at Walmart, shot up from $24.99 to $39. The price of an air fryer on a retail site called Newegg went from $84.99 to $149.99.An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon.

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The GuardianHumanity
United Airlines says it will ‘look into’ worker’s threat to call ICE in viral video

United Airlines says it will ‘look into’ worker’s threat to call ICE in viral video

United staffer told customer ‘you don’t act like at a citizen’ during incident over wait time at San Francisco airport is “looking into” a viral video showing a United Airlines employee threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement () on Mexican American man at international Airport last week.The scene erupted after Julio Varela of San Ramon grew upset at United Airlines staff for taking a long time to correct an error his family made when entering his daughter’s name to buy a ticket for flight to Canada, .

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The GuardianScandal
Tens of thousands of Cockroach movement protesters defy police with Delhi march

Tens of thousands of Cockroach movement protesters defy police with Delhi march

Youth-led group calls on education minister to quit in one of India’s largest anti-government rallies in yearsTens of thousands of protesters have defied police orders and descended on Delhi to demand the resignation of India’s education minister in one of the largest anti-government demonstrations in years.A huge crowd, largely made up of students and gen Z-ers, filled the streets in the heart of India’s capital from early Monday morning shouting anti-government slogans. Hundreds had already camped out overnight.

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The GuardianHumanity
‘The Kardashian era is over’: TikTok’s ‘povvo king’ takes on the billionaires

‘The Kardashian era is over’: TikTok’s ‘povvo king’ takes on the billionaires

Shabaz Ali stormed to TikTok fame mocking the designer ice cubes of the privileged. Now he’s on the BBC stoking revolt against the superrichIt was ice cubes that tipped Shabaz Ali over the edge. “A woman online spent her entire day making content about ‘designer ice cubes’,” he recalls. “She’d freeze flavoured waters or fruit juices and show the whole process in tedious detail. I was like, ‘There’s no way she’s got a proper job or has ever struggled for money. Only someone wealthy would have the time to do this.’ It vexed me, so on a whim, I made a reaction video saying ‘On today’s episode of I’m Rich, You’re Poor …’ Soon my TikToks were getting 30m views and thousands of comments. It blew my mind.”Ali, AKA @ShabazSays, has since become a cult celebrity for his sarcastic commentary on how the other half live. His scathing takedowns of the “rich and ridiculous” have won him more than 4 million followers. Now he’s transferring his viral fame to our TV screens.

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The GuardianScandal
Protests in Italy after death of Moroccan man under police restraint

Protests in Italy after death of Moroccan man under police restraint

Teargas and water cannon used on protesters after Abderrahim ⁠Fakir died pleading for help from policePolice have clashed with demonstrators during a protest in the Italian city of Bologna after a Moroccan-born man died pleading for help under police restraint.Human rights campaigners and Italy’s opposition parties have demanded urgent answers over the death on Sunday of Abderrahim ⁠Fakir, 42, who had lived in Italy since he was five years old and ran a small removals and cleaning business.

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The GuardianHumanity
Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US

Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US

Historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter ThielThe historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s new book is published amid celebrations of the of the declaration of independence and its truth “self-evident, that all men are created equal”. Country of Lords, however, is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.Concise and hard-hitting, the book arrives at a time of glaring social and , Phillips-Fein seeing “ very much on people’s minds, with a deep level of discomfort, both fear and anger about what this portends”.

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The GuardianElections
Investigation of Nigel Farage over undeclared gifts is ‘kangaroo court’, says Reform MP

Investigation of Nigel Farage over undeclared gifts is ‘kangaroo court’, says Reform MP

Runcorn MP Sarah Pochin says parliament mounting ‘vicious and desperate campaign to stop Reform UK’A Reform UK MP has complained that the standards system investigating Nigel Farage over undeclared gifts is a “kangaroo court”.Sarah Pochin, the Runcorn MP, said Farage had called a byelection in his Clacton seat so that voters could decide whether they back him or not, and argued that “the media, the British state and the old parties have mounted a vicious and desperate campaign to stop Reform UK.”

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The GuardianAI
Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race

Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race

Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into questionHello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we’re discussing how China is chipping away at the US’s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley’s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI.

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The TelegraphDiplomacyWest Midlands
Mahmood faces British Pakistani revolt over Rochdale rapist sanctions

Mahmood faces British Pakistani revolt over Rochdale rapist sanctions

Ministers face a backlash from British Pakistanis over threats to sanction Pakistan if it refuses to take back the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang. Senior figures in the Pakistani community in the UK are divided over whether Shabir Ahmed, 73, a child rapist, should be deported to Pakistan, but warned that any visa sanctions or aid cuts would prompt a backlash that would damage relations between the two countries.

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The GuardianScandal
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in US on UK rape and sex trafficking charges

Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in US on UK rape and sex trafficking charges

Britain seeks extradition over charges including rape, trafficking for sexual exploitation and offences relating to extreme pornographyThe controversial influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in the US as part of a UK police investigation into a number of alleged sexual offences.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was bringing further charges in relation to four further individuals, and had requested the two men’s extradition.

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The GuardianAI
How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table

How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table

Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligenceFor decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream benefits like unlimited vacation and free lunch, and a flat corporate hierarchy that made engineers feel as powerful as their bosses, all of whom dressed down in sneakers and hoodies. So why unionize?Now, that fortress is cracking from the inside. Unions have become increasingly popular for tech employees. After and mounting anxieties about how it’s being deployed, some tech workers say they’ve been saddled with higher workloads while facing the threat of job loss caused by the very products they’re building. Workers from Google DeepMind and Meta in the UK are also objecting to how their companies’ AI products are being used, such as for or to . Those same workers are now attempting to unionize.

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The GuardianScandal
Climate and rock art advocates take on Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ WA gas project in federal court

Climate and rock art advocates take on Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ WA gas project in federal court

Albanese government’s approval of North West Shelf gas extension being challenged by the Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian Rock ArtThe Albanese government’s decision to approve one of the world’s largest gas projects in Western Australia is being challenged in the federal court, setting up a significant test of how Australia’s environment law deals with the climate crisis.The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and Friends of Australian Rock Art (Fara) are this week running concurrent court challenges against the approval of the extension of Woodside’s major North West Shelf gas export project.

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