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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 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 GuardianWar & ConflictIsrael

Israel strikes southern Lebanon after ordering evacuations of nine villages

Thousands flee including from village hosting at least 2,500 displaced people, one day after Hezbollah rejects ceasefireThousands fled their homes after Israel issued forced evacuation orders for nine villages in southern Lebanon before strikes that killed six people on Friday, a day after the Hezbollah militant group rejected a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon.Hundreds of families left Anqoun, a village hosting at least 2,500 displaced people, after the Israeli military said it would soon operate against what it said were Hezbollah targets there, ordering residents to leave. The roads leading to Sidon, the closest large city, were choked with cars as families sought shelter.

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The TelegraphNature DailyBalkans

Albanians fight Trump resort with blow-up flamingos

It is being hailed as the “Flamingo Revolution” – a grass-roots protest against plans by the Trump dynasty to turn a pristine stretch of coastline in Albania into a €1.4bn (£1.2bn) tourism development. Thousands of people took to the streets in Tirana, the Albanian capital, this week to call for the project to be scrapped, saying it will destroy one of the last untouched sections of coastline in the Mediterranean, home to turtles and monk seals.

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The GuardianAILondon

New claimants seek to sue Elon Musk’s xAI after Labour MP’s test case

Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI toolNew claimants have come forward to take legal action against Elon Musk’s company xAI after the Labour MP Jess Asato over demeaning sexualised material created by its Grok AI tool.A handful of complainants contacted Asato’s lawyer on Thursday in response to coverage of the MP’s decision to sue Musk’s company for damages over its creation and circulation of fake images of her in a bikini and an AI-created video that she said showed her “being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault”.

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The TelegraphHealthcareLondon

Palantir deal ‘could slash NHS waiting lists by a million’

More than a million patients could come off NHS waiting lists under a controversial £330m data deal with Palantir, the US tech giant. NHS figures seen by The Telegraph show hospitals using the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), run under a contract led by Palantir, have achieved major increases in theatre use, faster cancer diagnoses and sharp reductions in delayed discharges.

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The GuardianHealth AlertsUnited Kingdom

Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes run by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vulturesBring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster than you can stuff it in a sack. All you need do is join the market in what may now be England’s most lucrative commodity. A commodity with arms and legs, hearts and brains, thoughts and feelings. Children.Two years ago I after discovering that children in care who were being helped by a local charity I’m involved with were suddenly being whisked away, terminating the amazing progress they had been making, breaking their relationships, their sense of home, stability and security. When I began exploring why this was happening, I could scarcely believe what I was seeing: a highly lucrative trade in highly vulnerable young people. Children in “care” were being exchanged between private equity companies for £100,000 apiece. That figure is now wrong. Today they are worth far more.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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The TelegraphEducationUnited Kingdom

Labour’s VAT raid fails to stop fall in state school teacher numbers

State schools are losing teachers despite Labour’s pledge to boost their numbers with its VAT raid on private schools. The number of teachers in state nursery, primary and secondary schools fell by 4,754, or 1.1 per cent, between the 2023-24 and 2025-26 academic years, according to an analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data published on Thursday.

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The GuardianWellnessUnited Kingdom

Inside one man’s botched deportation: seven flights, two swallowed batteries and a staggering bill for the UK taxpayer

Omar is married to a British woman, has a British son and was given a single non-custodial sentence nine years ago. Nonetheless, the Home Office was determined to deport him – whatever the costA year ago, Omar was living in the UK with his British wife and was determined to be a positive, consistent presence for his 10-year-old son, a British citizen from his first marriage. Omar is devoted to his child and has always been committed to guiding him to adulthood.But today, Omar, 40, lives in Egypt, separated from his family, thanks to an extraordinarily determined, turbulent and expensive campaign by the Home Office to remove him from the UK. (Omar is not his real name.)

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The GuardianHealth AlertsAustralia

Mafs Australia stars say the show is not safe for contestants: ‘They just sat back and let the cameras roll’

After serious allegations about the safety of the UK franchise, Australian cast members say they experienced ‘control, manipulation and isolation’Get our , or Less than two minutes into Australia’s latest season of , groom Tyson Gordon remarks: “If she’s a woke person, I don’t really stand for any of that shit.” Later in season 13, he worries that his wife is not the “submissive type”, in comments described at the time by the social services minister, Tanya Plibersek, as .Gordon later walked back his comments, telling 60 Minutes he had meant to say he was looking for a “traditional” woman rather than a “submissive” one.

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The GuardianCrime & SafetyUnited Kingdom

Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn

Campaigners say supreme court judgment on deprivation of liberty safeguards introduces ‘regressive legal standard’Severely disabled people will be at heightened risk of abuse in care homes and hospitals after the biggest upheaval in disability law in a generation overturned “vital” legal safeguards, campaigners have warned.They said a that potentially strips the right of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people to independent checks on the safety and appropriateness of their care “devalues the dignity of disabled people”.

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The GuardianPublic Policy

Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with new piece of legislation. It’s a trap | Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick

Israel and its lobby will use section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act to bind the US to a state that has gone rogueCongress is that would embed Israel’s military deeply within the US military-industrial complex. Stunned by the cratering of public support for Israeli policies in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank and towards Iran, Israel’s advocates are frantically seeking to preserve and even escalate US support for the Jewish state in ways that do not rely on defense of its policies or permit scrutiny of the manipulations involved.Politically, this means avoiding public discussion of Israeli policies in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank or Iran and disguising the sources of massive amounts of money pouring into election races to defeat candidates raising questions about US support for Israel. The proposed legislation shows what this means bureaucratically.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA

‘Hey, Mikie, WTF?’: New Jersey governor facing outrage over attacks on Delaney Hall protesters

Protesters say Mikie Sherrill has failed to address the dire hunger and labor strike at the immigration detention centerA few dozen protesters rallied outside the New Jersey statehouse in Trenton on Monday afternoon. They carried handmade signs with messages like “U made it worse” and “Gov Sherrill, stop lying about Delaney Hall”. One led a collective chant that summed up the rally’s mood: “Hey, Mikie, WTF?”The target of their ire: the governor, Mikie Sherrill. Protesters say the newly elected Democratic governor has failed to adequately address the dire situation at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, where at least 300 detainees are on a hunger and labor strike.

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US journalist pleads guilty to working as China's agent

A US journalist who had been living and working in China for over a decade has pleaded guilty in a US court to working as an illegal agent for the People's Republic of China (PRC). Thomas Weir Pauken II, 50, "admitted to being part of a conspiracy to obtain sensitive information from the US government" for China, US Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A Eisenberg said.

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The GuardianSustainabilityUSA

How the insatiable thirst of datacenters is leaving communities across the US high and dry

In this week’s newsletter: Utah’s gargantuan Stratos development is the latest battleground in the AI-driven fight for water, energy, and our environmental future• Kevin O’Leary is many things. He is a flamboyant venture capitalist, co-host of the TV show Shark Tank, vocal supporter of Donald Trump and, recently, a villainous tycoon (or, in his character’s words, a vampire born in 1601) in the Oscar-nominated Marty Supreme.For the people of Utah, however, O’Leary is the highly controversial face of a new climate controversy. I’ll explain why, after this week’s most important reads.

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The TelegraphCrime & SafetyWestern Europe

Ainslie: I was told ‘Ratcliffe will burn your house down’ in threat to destroy America's Cup team

Sir Ben Ainslie claims he was told Sir Jim Ratcliffe would “burn your house down” unless he handed over the team’s assets and intellectual property to the British billionaire’s Ineos empire. The “hostile” threat was allegedly delivered by Jean-Claude Blanc and Rob Nevin, the chief executive and chairman of Ineos Sport, in Ainslie’s Barcelona office, in October 2024, just hours before Ainslie was due to try to make history in the America’s Cup against New Zealand.

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The TelegraphMusicEngland

‘Forever 18’: Henry Nowak’s sister shares tribute to murdered brother

Henry Nowak’s sister has shared an emotional tribute to her murdered brother. Olivia Nowak, 22, said she had never felt pain like losing her younger sibling, saying in a post online on Wednesday: “Will miss and love you forever.” The university student was stabbed with a ceremonial sword by Vickrum Digwa, 23, who then lied and told police he had been racially abused.

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