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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 GuardianPoliticiansAustralia

Pauline Hanson’s views haven’t changed since her first speech. But now she is resonating with Australia’s bitter and resentful mood | Paul Daley

All the One Nation leader had to do to ‘win’ in the eyes of her movement’s base was turn up as the flaming beacon of their discontentGet our , or Thirty years ago, when I watched Pauline Hanson deliver her to the House of Representatives, there was a sense around the halls of federal parliament that she was a radical, racist outlier who’d soon disappear.Hanson has survived more than her share of political vagaries to the point her One Nation is topping party popularity polls. Indeed, One Nation’s recent success in South Australia and at the presages potentially far broader electoral wins.

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The GuardianPublic PolicyLondon

The tide is turning on Thames Water: special administration looks best | Nils Pratley

It is still not totally clear what the government wants but the political mood seems to be shifting towards a decisionAt last, Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, has opined on the future of Thames Water. So what’s it to be? A takeover by the company’s creditors? Special administration, which would allow anyone to pitch up with an offer while the state temporarily funds the company? Or even a quick flush to full nationalisation?Well, two years after Thames’s shareholders walked away, and 18 months after the creditors opened talks with regulator Ofwat on the terms on a potential recapitalisation, one still can’t say definitively what the government wants. But we do have a better idea: the political mood seems to be shifting firmly towards administration.

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NatureAIUSA

Towards autonomous medical artificial intelligence agents

Large language models (LLMs) show great potential for clinical decision-making, yet most applications remain narrow, task-specific chat tools rather than systems integrated into clinical workflows1,2. However, building physician copilots will require models that operate within the electronic health record (EHR), with governed access to patient data and the ability to initiate permitted EHR actions within defined safety constraints.

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Daily PostPoliticiansNigeria

‘Nigeria is bleeding’ – Reps Minority Caucus asks Tinubu to overhaul security architecture

The House of Representatives Minority Caucus has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately overhaul the nation’s security architecture. Minority Leader, Fred Agbedi, made the call at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, declaring, “Nigeria is bleeding.” The lawmaker said that the life of every Nigerian matters and that politics must take the back […]

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NatureInnovationChina

Probing picometre-scale interlayer deformations via hyperbolic polaritons

The resilience of van der Waals (vdW) materials to large strain fields makes them an ideal platform for tuning electronic, optical and magnetic properties1,2,3,4. Although in-plane strain is readily mapped, non-invasive and quantitative characterization of out-of-plane strain remains a formidable challenge, particularly for picometre-scale deformations buried at interfaces.

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The TelegraphHumanityEurope

Andrew Tate accused of trafficking more women in Romania

Andrew Tate, the self-proclaimed misogynist influencer, is facing new allegations of human trafficking and money laundering in Romania. The 39-year-old dual British-American allegedly trafficked and blackmailed a vulnerable woman into filming online pornography from his compound on the outskirts of Bucharest in 2017, Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), said on Wednesday.

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The GuardianElectionsUSA

I’ve spent decades fighting for fair elections. Trump is setting the stage for a grim November | David Walbert

Following the supreme court’s gutting of the voting rights act, the president’s recent claims of fraud are cause for serious concernThe first case I argued in the was in 1982. I represented African American voters from Burke county, Georgia, where no Black person had ever been elected to office even though 40% of the voters were Black. The reason was simple. All candidates were elected at large by the voters of the entire county, and the white majority could outvote Black voters every time.Federal law banned many older methods of southern discrimination–the bogus literacy tests, “understanding” tests, and poll taxes, for example – but structural barriers like the one in Burke county were pervasive, and they suppressed Black politics across the south. In Georgia, fewer than one percent of the elected officials in the state were African Americans while more than a quarter of the state’s registered voters were Black.

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The GuardianHumanityChina

They were forced into marriage and abused. Now women facing exploitation in China have a glimmer of hope

Female activists are working in the shadows to find and support vulnerable women they fear are being failed by authoritiesLast summer, Xiaocao, a softly spoken woman in her 40s, received a tip-off that in Lüliang, a small city in China’s Shanxi province, vulnerable women were being forced into marriages. Along with another volunteer, she wanted to investigate.After leaving Beijing, the two volunteers travelled south for hours, on trains and in rental cars. A few villages turned out to be dead ends. But on the final day of their trip, the women stopped in a county where they’d heard about a woman with learning disabilities who was “married” to two brothers. Soon, they found her.

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The GuardianScandalLondon

Real estate event in London ‘advertised sale of land in illegal Israeli settlements’

Pamphlets from event featured projects in West Bank and East Jerusalem despite previous denials by organisersAn Israeli real estate event in north London appears to have advertised the sale of land in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, that illegal settlement properties would be marketed at the event.Pamphlets shared with the Guardian from the event on Sunday showed real estate projects in Ma’ale Adumim, Givat Ze’ev, Kfar Eldad and Teneh Omarim in the occupied West Bank, as well as Ramat Eshkol and Givat Hamatos in East Jerusalem.

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The HinduScandalIndia

CMRL pay-off case involving ex-Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter T. Veena | Explained

Income Tax Interim Settlement Board in 2023 found that T. Veena and her now-defunct company Exalogic Solutions had received monthly payments from CMRL despite there being no evidence of any services given in return. A probe by Serious Fraud Investigation Office revealed fictitious cash expenses of about ₹182 crore over a span of 15 years, allegedly used by CMRL to bribe various persons

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