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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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BBCScandalSub-Saharan Africa
Tanzanian rangers arrested as police investigate death in national park

Tanzanian rangers arrested as police investigate death in national park

Tanzania's police have arrested three park rangers after a man died and two others were injured in a conservation area which they were accused of entering illegally. The three men had been detained by rangers on Wednesday morning in the protected Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where rights groups have long raised concerns about alleged human rights violations linked to conservation enforcement.

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The GuardianScandalEastern Europe
Russian plot to kill Ukrainian American thwarted in Warsaw, says Polish PM

Russian plot to kill Ukrainian American thwarted in Warsaw, says Polish PM

Donald Tusk says it is first time ‘someone on the order of Russia’ has sought to attack US citizen in Nato countryA Russian plan to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister has said.Donald Tusk said it was the first time that “someone on the order of Russia” had sought to attack a US citizen on the territory of another Nato country.

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The GuardianDiplomacyPoland
A bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed a spy – but whose spy was he?

A bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed a spy – but whose spy was he?

When exiled Russian opposition campaigner Igor Rogov was accused of working for the Kremlin, his friends were shocked. Could this young activist have really been an undercover agent?• The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. to orderThe police came for Igor Rogov because someone had mailed him a bomb-making kit. The eclectic mix of items – a chrome vacuum flask, a pair of marker pens, a power bank and a bottle of antifreeze fluid – might have seemed innocuous to an untrained eye, but Poland was on high alert in July 2024. Two months previously, a shopping mall in Warsaw had burned down in an arson attack; an Ikea in neighbouring Lithuania . Authorities believed it was a sabotage campaign masterminded by Russia’s intelligence services, intended to sow panic and undermine support for Ukraine. They feared it was only a matter of time before the Kremlin escalated further.A security officer at the parcel company’s warehouse was suspicious enough about the package to call in the authorities, who arrived with sniffer dogs and special equipment. X-rays of the marker pens showed they had 1980s Soviet-produced detonators concealed inside, while the flask had a false bottom containing a sachet of metallic powder. The power bank appeared to have been tampered with in some way, and a probe of the bottled liquid showed it contained a highly volatile nitroglycerine solution. With the right expertise, the items could be turned into a powerful bomb.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’ICE plans to spend up to $20m (£15m) to purchase thousands of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks for officers and agents by March, according to a by the Department of Homeland Security.The devices, called Glove (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk | Derecka Purnell

AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk | Derecka Purnell

Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolitionThe north may not remember, but 9 August this year marked the 12th anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown Jr in Ferguson, Missouri. That day, the US representative reassured an ABC news anchor that she, like other progressive politicians and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates, had “moved away” from statements they made during the pandemic, particularly on police and prison abolition. Questioned further, she :“I have a local city councilman that has this saying: ‘Woke 1 was crazy’… especially during Covid, I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. And I actually think that the discussions that were had in that time were quite fruitful. I think that when we talk about crime today, it’s fundamentally different than the way that we talked about crime in bringing crime down. And I think that we all share in the goals of having as low a crime rate as possible. I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today. And I’m grateful that these candidates have the opportunity to present who they are to their electorate and what they’re campaigning on in this moment.”

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The GuardianElectionsUSA
David Crowley wins Democratic primary for Wisconsin’s governor in upset over progressive Francesca Hong

David Crowley wins Democratic primary for Wisconsin’s governor in upset over progressive Francesca Hong

Crowley pulls off last-minute victory in tight race after polls had shown Hong as the clear Democratic frontrunnerDavid Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive, won the Democratic primary for governor after beating the Democratic socialist Francesca Hong.Crowley pulled off a last-minute victory after re-entering the campaign and snagging an endorsement from Tony Evers, the outgoing governor.

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The GuardianAIUSA
Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich

Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich

The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future?Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to data released on Friday. In addition, May and June’s job numbers were revised downward, showing a combined 103,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.As if this weren’t bad enough, wage growth has also slowed. Average hourly earnings rose by just 0.1% from June.

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The TelegraphDiplomacyNorth West England
Labour has a China problem, and Ed Miliband is at the heart of it

Labour has a China problem, and Ed Miliband is at the heart of it

With a man like Ed Miliband running the Foreign Office, it is hardly surprising that Labour is having difficulty sorting out its relationship with China. From the latest revelations that a former Labour adviser suspected of spying for China was an elite Labour Party donor with access to senior frontbench politicians, to the controversial ties Lord O’Neill, one of Andy Burnham’s key economic advisors, is said to have established with an ex-Xinhua employee, it is clear the Labour government is struggling to define its relationship with Beijing.

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The GuardianAI
Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? | Raffi Krikorian

Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? | Raffi Krikorian

It’s a nice sentiment, but all AI users should ask three questions about their preferred choice of AI platformOn Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay, The essay came with something even rarer: a new Meta open-weight model. An open-weight AI model is the kind of AI with which you download the entire thing, and it works on your own computer (with or without the internet) and nobody can switch it off except for you. Almost every mainstream AI tool you use, whether it be Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude, is one you rent access to. Meta’s is one that you can download and actually own. I downloaded it before I finished the essay. So can you.This major move by the world’s largest tech heavyweight comes amid a summer heavy with AI news, full of nations at war. Washington against Beijing; tech founder against tech founder. But beneath those conflicts is a deeper contest between two kinds of power: a government that can order technology offline in an instant, and a company that can simply close your account. Neither is necessarily villainous. But the rest of us are not merely the audience in this fight; we are the prize. And the terms are already being written: intelligence on lease, a future we pay for but never quite own.

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The GuardianSustainabilityLondon
Energy nationalism and interconnectors: the next power threat? | Nils Pratley

Energy nationalism and interconnectors: the next power threat? | Nils Pratley

Solar eclipses are far easier to manage than Europe’s cross-border electricity politicsIn the end, the solar eclipse did not cause the electricity grid to flicker. The early drop-off in solar generation was manageable, just as the National Energy System Operator (Neso), the state-owned body responsible for keeping the lights on, predicted. Gas-fired generators still had to be paid nose-bleed prices to fire up, and power via high-voltage interconnectors to continental Europe was also expensively sourced. But the system worked.A summer of heatwaves, however, has highlighted European grids’ reliance on those interconnectors – including seven between the UK and the continent – in an age of extreme weather and greater use of intermittent renewables. On Thursday, another low-wind “heat dome” day, a fifth of power to the British grid was coming from the continent at 10am. Cables from France alone were meeting 11%, or 3.54 gigawatts, of demand, or more than twice as much as the output at that time from the UK’s entire fleet of windfarms.

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The GuardianScandalWest Midlands
‘Birmingham Four’ lawyers hope spycops inquiry will help reopen case

‘Birmingham Four’ lawyers hope spycops inquiry will help reopen case

Undercover officers working for West Midlands’ ‘special projects team’ planted evidence to convict men, lawyers claimLawyers representing four men convicted of terror offences are increasingly hopeful that revelations from the undercover policing inquiry could boost the chances of their case being reopened.Ten years ago, Khobaib Hussain, Naweed Ali, Mohibur Rahman and Tahir Aziz were arrested and later convicted of plotting a terrorist attack in the UK after an elaborate covert police operation.

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The GuardianFinanceUSA
Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency

Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency

Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level Donald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefitting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned.Trump last year raked in at least $1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financial disclosure forms he filed in June. Simultaneously, about one million investors in a Trump crypto scheme suffered almost $3.8bnas their volatile crypto holdings tanked in value.

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The GuardianHealthcareUSA
California bans paraquat, highly toxic herbicide outlawed in more than 70 countries

California bans paraquat, highly toxic herbicide outlawed in more than 70 countries

State is US’s largest user of pesticide that is virtually proven to cause Parkinson’s diseaseCalifornia is banning paraquat, a highly toxic, controversial herbicide used across millions of acres of American cropland.Public health advocates characterize it as a deadly substance that is virtually proven to cause Parkinson’s disease. It is already outlawed in more than 70 countries, including China, the UK and the EU. Yet in the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2021 and 2024.

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Daily PostFinanceNigeria
Nigeria’s banking technology market in 2027: The shift from digital channels to intelligent infrastructure

Nigeria’s banking technology market in 2027: The shift from digital channels to intelligent infrastructure

New payment rails, richer transaction data and growing integration demands are expected to push banks and fintech companies towards a new generation of modular banking platforms. By 2027, the technology debate in Nigerian banking is likely to move beyond mobile applications. Banks and fintech companies have spent much of the past decade improving the customer […]

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