Humanity
LondonA Green Party spokesperson told British media that “Lubna Speitan holds no party positions other than being a member.” adding that the party has "internal processes to investigate" allegations.
HumanityGermany
Gay Men Support ‘Far Right’ Political Party Because of Threat
HumanityIsraelIn his remarks to cabinet members, the head of the service detailed that the defense establishment had identified attempts to create infrastructure of a military nature inside Israeli territory.
PoliticiansIslamic WorldArmy Radio also reported that the Transportation Ministry received NIS 10 million and 10 new positions to help secure foreign flights, but none were ever filled.
War & ConflictIslamic WorldIsrael is still working to establish a final profile of Hammami to determine whether he acted as a ‘lone wolf,’ was affiliated with any organization, or was sent directly by Iran.
PoliticiansIslamic WorldShin Bet Director David Zini also warned the Security Cabinet that Hamas is planning to kidnap IDF soldiers, particularly during the upcoming election period.
HumanityMassachusetts
I’ve taught at the university for 48 years. After I documented the harassment Jewish students faced after October 7, the administration told me to stick to supply chains and threatened my funding.
HumanityLondon
That this event is taking place really says all one needs to know about the Met Police’s policing of hate marches
DiplomacyIsraelHamas official Ghazi Hamad said October 7 came at a heavy price, but pointed to Israel’s isolation and renewed Palestinian statehood push as strategic gains.
War & ConflictIsraelThree years after October 7, the attack has revived a fundamental Zionist question: Can the Jewish people entrust their security and future to others?
ScandalIsraelGerald Posner's new analysis, titled "The Genocide Case Against Hamas," investigates whether Hamas's October 7 massacre meets the legal standard for genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
War & ConflictIslamic World
Three years ago this week, Hamas launched an invasion that Israel’s own intelligence services considered essentially impossible. Elliot Kaufman’s new book, In the War Room, explains why that confidence was misplaced, and just how close Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar came to succeeding.
WellnessAfrica
Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the genetics of longevity.
WellnessAfrica
The genome of Jonathan the giant tortoise, a 194-year-old resident of St Helena island, has been probed to understand how he has been alive for more than double his species’ average life expectancy
ScandalUnited Kingdom
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s allies have compared the circumstances surrounding his arrest to the treatment of Lord Brittan during Operation Midland. The former Duke of York launched legal action against Thames Valley Police after accusing officers of seizing personal items during raids on his home.
ScandalThames Valley
The disgraced royal has asked a High Court judge to assess whether the warrants given to search his properties in Sandringham and Windsor on February 19 were legal.
ScandalSpain
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed from the home she had lived in for more than 70 years after reportedly being unable to afford steep rent rises.
ScandalSpain
Protesters clashed with police in Barcelona on Monday, hours after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a Nov. 29 general election after his government suffered a legislative defeat over emergency housing measures.
DiplomacySouth East England
Lubna Speitan described in US court documents as a ‘close friend’ of terrorist who plotted suicide bomb attack at Heathrow Airport
HumanitySouth East England
The Green Party member behind the “Zionism is racism” motion is close friends with an al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted to bomb passengers landing at Heathrow from Israel. Lubna Speitan, a British-Palestinian artist, proposed the controversial motion at the Green Party conference in Brighton, where it was adopted after a vote.
HumanitySouth East EnglandWhile the motion passed 1,022 to 813, this represents only a tiny proportion of the Green Party's overall membership. With 230,000 members, the vote represented less than 1% of the party.
DiplomacyBerlin
August Hanning, who left Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2005, is its first former chief to face charges.
Health AlertsMontgomery
Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee
Health AlertsNashville
Christa Pike, 50, survived two supposedly lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, last Wednesday.
Health AlertsNashvilleDeath row inmate Christa Pike has regained consciousness after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection last week, and her attorneys are set to head to court Wednesday to seek more information about what went wrong. Pike (50) survived two doses of pentobarbital as executioners attempted to put her to death Sept.
ScandalNashville
Convicted murderer Christa Pike is awake and speaking in the hospital after her botched execution, her lawyers said on Tuesday afternoon.
Crime & SafetyNashville
The death row inmate in Tennessee received two doses of a lethal injection drug last week, but lived. She was taken from the execution chamber in an ambulance.
PoliticiansPresident refuses to explain rally line that incensed California lawmakers
PoliticiansNebraska
President Trump’s comments caused an uproar from members of both parties. A White House official said he was taken out of context.
Diplomacy
‘The media freakout over President Trump’s comments is not rooted in reality,’ White House Communications Director Steven Cheung wrote on social media
ScandalThailand
Simon Andriesz, 57, who was living in Cornwall, was found dead in a town just outside Bangkok on the morning of September 23
HumanitySouth West England
The whistleblower claimed his former employer Howard Lutnick - a key aide of Donald Trump - failed to disclose a business relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
HumanitySouth East England
And there is nothing radical about declaring it. It is a fact of history.
Health AlertsRussia
The death of a researcher at a plague laboratory in Siberia has prompted the World Health Organization to press Moscow for answers. Russian officials have yet to share details of what caused the worker’s illness, and this information vacuum has fuelled speculation.
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Pneumonic plague is the rarest but most severe form of the disease
ScienceRussia
The death of a worker from a Russian lab that researches plague has prompted questions about the disease.
HumanityIslamic World
Our young and our educated sympathised more with the Gazan death cult than they did with the Jews who were its victims
HumanityUnited Kingdom
It is not as though I was unaware that Hamas was a jihadist terrorist organisation. After all, I grew up in a town that was a prime target for rockets from Gaza, routinely fired by Hamas’s military wing. One of my biggest fears as a child during the Second Intifada was hearing ‘Allahu Akbar’ on
HumanityNorth West England
Three years ago, on October 7, Palestinian terrorists stormed Israel’s borders and carried out a massacre that changed the course of Middle Eastern history. Three thousand miles away, here in the UK, that moment also changed life for British Jews overnight, unleashing an unprecedented and relentless wave of anti-Semitism.
Health Alerts
SARS, Ebola and covid highlighted role of plane travel in spreading — and tracking — outbreaks.
Health AlertsRussia
The country’s consumer watchdog has said only that “an employee of an anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk Region” contracted pneumonia.
Health AlertsRussiaThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed it is seeking further information on the case
Health AlertsRussia
Disease moves faster than governments, we should have learnt the lessons from Covid
PoliticiansRussia
US and EU officials said on Monday they were closely monitoring a suspected case of pneumonic plague in Russia that killed a lab worker in a Siberian research institute.
Health AlertsRussia
Fears around an outbreak have spread after Russian scientist Darya Shipilova, 28, died days after reportedly dropping a vial of live plague bacterium.
Health AlertsRussia
Russian authorities say a staffer at a plague research institute in Siberia contracted pneumonia of an unknown cause, and local state TV reported the woman died last week
ElectionsBrazil
The favorite to win Brazil’s election has promised to free his imprisoned father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, grant amnesty to supporters and impeach Supreme Court justices.
DiplomacyIslamic World
The initial phase resulted in a ceasefire and secured the release of the remaining hostages
HumanityIsrael & Palestine
Almost a year has passed since President Donald Trump declared the fighting over and “peace in the Middle East” achieved.
War & ConflictIslamic WorldHamas has continued to deny targeting civilians, carrying out sexual assaults, and mistreating hostages in captivity, claiming that investigations have disproved the allegations.
War & ConflictIslamic WorldOne year after the Gaza ceasefire began, Trump’s broader plan remains stalled, with Hamas still armed, Israeli forces holding most of Gaza, and reconstruction barely underway.
HumanityIslamic World
As the Red Army closed in on Auschwitz, the Nazis blew up the crematoria to hide the atrocities they had committed. Almost 80 years later on Oct 7, 2023, the day that saw more Jews murdered than on any other since the Holocaust, Hamas did the opposite.
War & ConflictSaudi ArabiaAt one point, a vehicle hits a man, running and unarmed, and another crouching on the ground. It then loops back to drive over two men, both with their hands up and unarmed.
War & ConflictSaudi Arabia
The videos gave a glimpse into the brutal closing stages of a pitched battle for control of territory near the strait that the Houthis had captured last month
War & ConflictIslamic World
Footage on social media shows the moment the Iran-backed rebels are mown down seconds after throwing their hands in the air to give themselves up.
War & ConflictSaudi Arabia
Saudi-backed forces gave conflicting reports of whether they had also seized the port city of Mokha, near the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
War & ConflictMiddle East
Saudi’s previous war against the Houthis resulted in a yearslong quagmire and devastating humanitarian crisis.
HumanityNorthern Ireland - East
Ed*, the SAS commander leading one of the most contentious flash points of the Northern Ireland conflict, describes the moments leading up to the Gibraltar operation in March 1988 - and tells Sam Kiley how the fallout has lasted for decades
InformationLos Angeles
Continuity will be the immediate emphasis for Skydance, the new entertainment giant created by Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros
InformationLos Angeles
David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has completed its $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros
EconomyNew York
After a legal battle, Paramount has finally acquired Warner Bros. Discovery. In a memo to employees, the combined company’s leaders hinted at cost cuts.
Public PolicyGreece
The secretary of state delivered a speech befitting a politician trying to inherit the MAGA movement from President Donald Trump.
DiplomacyGreeceToday the West is at a crossroads. “The next decade and the decisions we make will write the story of the next century," Rubio explained.
DiplomacyGreece
In Greece, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Western nations must embrace an earlier ethos of exploration and conquest as part of their civilization, to remain ‘at the head of the world.’
ElectionsSouth East England
The former Labour prime minister urged his own party to not be 'tempted' by a Labour-Green alliance to 'unite the British Left'.
ElectionsUnited KingdomIntervention by former prime minister follows warnings by senior Labour figures in The Independent that ‘Zionism is racism’ vote should disqualify Greens from major public office
HumanityIsrael & Palestine"What happened on October 7 is a legitimate thing, okay? It's legitimate,” Advisor to the Paestinian Authority's Religious Affairs Ministry, Mahmoud Al-Habbash said.
Sex & IdentityWashington State
The high court has upheld bans on transgender athletes on girls’ and women’s sports teams. It has not said whether states can allow them to participate.
ElectionsWashington State
Washington state will vote on Initiative 638 on November 3, which, if passed, would ban biological males from competing in girls' K-12 sports.
