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Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent | Arwa Mahdawi

Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent | Arwa Mahdawi

Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunityLet me introduce you to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Israel’s far-right Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party, the minister of national security, and an almost cartoonishly evil man. You’ll have heard his name before: he made international news when he taunting bound activists who had been detained trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. But you might not be familiar with many of his recent shocking comments, because they haven’t been widely covered by much of the US media.Let’s start with an AI-generated video that Ben-Gvir posted on Twitter/X on Sunday and then . It shows portly Palestinian prisoners being loaded on to a conveyor belt and going into a detention camp, then emerging emaciated. The caption is “we promised – we delivered!” which seems to be a reference to the national security minister’s promise to conditions for Palestinian prisoners. An ambitious goal, considering conditions are already hellish: Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has likened the prisons where Palestinians are kept to “”.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist

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The GuardianWar & Conflict
US commerce secretary erroneously said no Americans have died in Iran war, Trump claims

US commerce secretary erroneously said no Americans have died in Iran war, Trump claims

President said Howard Lutnick had Venezuela operation on his mind when he was discussing Iran war on CNBCDonald Trump has claimed his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, erroneously stated that no Americans had been killed in the war with Iran because he was thinking about a previous US operation, in Venezuela.The claim, at odds with the Pentagon’s count of 18 US service members dead in the US-Israel war on Iran, sparked a swift backlash as Trump struggles to end the conflict after six months.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Federal judge blocks Trump’s latest attempt to restrict birthright citizenship

Federal judge blocks Trump’s latest attempt to restrict birthright citizenship

Supreme court ruled in June against president’s earlier order to change citizenship rules for babies born in USA federal judge has temporarily blocked ’s latest attempt to restrict – the that all babies born in the US are guaranteed American citizenship.The decision came nearly a month after the president to limit via executive order which people born in the US can become American citizens. The supreme court that Trump’s previous sweeping order denying birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants or temporary visitors was .

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The GuardianPoliticiansUSA
Leon Black fails to appear for US House deposition about Epstein ties

Leon Black fails to appear for US House deposition about Epstein ties

Billionaire financier, who previously walked out of a deposition, instead launches lawsuit against the committeeBillionaire financier Leon Black did not appear Thursday in front of the House oversight committee for a scheduled deposition about his ties to , and has instead launched a lawsuit against the committee arguing that it does not have the authority to compel him to turn over non-disclosure agreements.Black was a top Epstein client over several years, and the committee is investigating the men’s relationship as well as the existence of any NDAs that Epstein may have helped Black craft. Black, whose name has repeatedly in the , has denied wrongdoing. Black also said that he regrets dealing with Epstein.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Epstein survivors urge billionaire Leon Black to cooperate with House panel

Epstein survivors urge billionaire Leon Black to cooperate with House panel

Black called on to comply with subpoenas and appear as required to clarify connections to convicted sex offenderMore than a dozen survivors of abuse have called on billionaire Leon Black to appear before the House oversight committee in order to clarify his connections to the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.In a letter released on Wednesday, the survivors urged Black to comply with congressional subpoenas ahead of Thursday’s deposition before the House oversight committee.

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The GuardianScandalMalta
Sabotage, leaks and political ties: the story of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder trial

Sabotage, leaks and political ties: the story of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder trial

A Maltese businessman has been cleared of involvement in the journalist’s death, but his trial revealed the challenges faced by those leading the search for her killersThe conclusion of the longest-running murder trial in Maltese history has left a country in turmoil, and a grieving family still searching for answers.At 7.30pm on Wednesday, gasps and cheers echoed around hall 22 of the courts of justice in Valletta, as a jury pronounced a businessman accused of ordering the murder of the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia .

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The GuardianScandalMalta
Maltese tycoon found not guilty of involvement in Daphne Caruana Galizia murder

Maltese tycoon found not guilty of involvement in Daphne Caruana Galizia murder

Yorgen Fenech cleared on both charges he faced over 2017 killing of journalist that prompted global outrageOne of Malta’s richest men has been found not guilty of involvement in the murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.The verdict, which is expected to be appealed against by the prosecution, will come as a blow not only to the victim’s family, but to the politicians and campaigners who regard the case as a landmark action in the fight to protect press freedom in Europe.

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The GuardianDiplomacyVenezuela
Trump ally defends Venezuela oil deal amid ‘gunpoint diplomacy’ criticism

Trump ally defends Venezuela oil deal amid ‘gunpoint diplomacy’ criticism

Energy secretary Chris Wright denies US seeking to ‘take’ country’s oil, saying deal is ‘transformation’ of relationsThe US energy secretary, Chris Wright, has denied Washington is seeking to commandeer huge quantities of Venezuelan oil, amid growing criticism of Donald Trump’s with the country’s interim leaders.“Absolutely not,” Wright replied when asked by a CNBC journalist if the US was engaged in a “heavy-handed” attempt to “take” Venezuelan oil in violation of the South American country’s constitution.

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The GuardianFarmingUSA
Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92

Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92

Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at homeWendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian whose poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and misjudgments of an industrial, commercialized society, has died aged 92.His daughter, Mary Berry, confirmed on Monday that he died in his home in Port Royal, Kentucky.

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The GuardianScandalSouth West England
Pro-Palestine activists who were sentenced as terrorists launch appeal

Pro-Palestine activists who were sentenced as terrorists launch appeal

Barrister representing four who smashed drones at Israeli arms factory says ruling of ‘terrorist connection’ led to heftier sentences Palestine Action activists who were the first defendants convicted of property damage whose offending was deemed have launched an appeal of “fundamental constitutional importance” against the judge’s finding.Charlotte Head, 30, Leona Kamio, 31, Fatema Rajwani, 22, and Samuel Corner, 24, received lengthy sentences in June for smashing up drones and other equipment at Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems’ factory in Filton, Bristol, in 2024.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued ’s company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her.“Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California.

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The GuardianCinematic ArtsUSA
By Any Means review – Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II drama provokes with horror of 1960s racism

By Any Means review – Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II drama provokes with horror of 1960s racism

Elegance Bratton’s civil rights drama in the Jim Crow south confronts you with almost unbearable brutalityBlack people officially won the right to vote in the US in 1965 but many still encountered hurdles on their path to the ballot box: eleven states in the south quickly introduced a poll tax requiring an annual fee to be allowed to vote. The practice unambiguously targeted poor Black communities in an early form of thinly-veiled racist voter suppression. Vernon Dahmer wouldn’t stand for it. In January 1966 the Hattiesburg, Mississippi based Black activist and NAACP chapter head promised to cover the fee for those struggling to afford it. “It’s a proclamation that we here, that we matter”, he says in an early scene in By Any Means, a considered, if blunt, drama inspired by the real life aftermath of Dahmer’s murder by the Ku Klux Klan.It is Mississippi in the mid ‘60s and Wayne Strider (a sturdy ) is new to the local FBI unit, having recently moved back to his home state from Chicago, and is dealing with bosses who turn a blind eye to racist crimes. “White guys can get away with murder,” says one Black colleague while shaking his head. After his boss receives a message from President Johnson to prioritize the Dahmer murder case, Strider is teamed up with a widely feared mobster Gregory Scarpa ( with a rather distracting prosthetic nose), who has been shipped in from Brooklyn as part of an off-book mission to track down the Klansmen and bring justice to the killers.

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HaaretzHumanityUSA
Behind the Scenes at the Republican Jewish Coalition Confab

Behind the Scenes at the Republican Jewish Coalition Confab

Vice President JD Vance's charm offensive failed to completely win over skeptical GOP donors who gathered this week in Las Vegas at the Republican Jewish Coalition National Leadership Summit, Haaretz's Washington correspondent Arno Rosenfeld told the Haaretz Podcast. There were mixed reactions to Vance's speech to the crowd of 1,000, meant to be off the record, but leaked publicly, in which the vice president attempted to reassure those attending that, despite his isolationist leanings and association with media figures who regularly peddle antisemitic tropes, that he believed in the "mutually beneficial" relationship between the U.S.

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The GuardianSex & IdentityUSA
Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme kicked a woman and his ex-wife alleged domestic abuse. Why the cosy makeover?

Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme kicked a woman and his ex-wife alleged domestic abuse. Why the cosy makeover?

Like Johnny Depp and Chris Brown before him, Homme has got past his chequered history to retain an adoring fanbase. Almost a decade post-#MeToo, audiences no longer seem to careAs part of the promo for Queens of the Stone Age’s new album Perfecth, the band has set up a novelty complaints hotline for fans to call. “No bitching too big, no whiny too tiny,” it promises. I’ll bite: how about the fact that frontman Josh Homme’s ex-wife Brody Dalle testified in court that he and said he had fantasised about killing her? Or that he ? It’s certainly not what anyone’s talking about as part of Homme’s friendly neighbourhood rock star image rehabilitation: duetting on Shania Twain’s new album, taking the couch on Celebrity Gogglebox, teatime BBC 6 Music interviews.Homme and Dalle clearly had a complicated relationship: he allegedly tried to throw her boyfriend off a balcony; he claims that she was violent towards him; both have taken out ; Homme has full custody of their kids after Dalle’s boyfriend was found to have forged her signature on an application for a restraining order. Homme has recently talked about coming through a dark period, including , and getting a handle on his vices. Nevertheless, there is clear footage of him brutally kicking the camera of photographer Chelsea Lauren back into her face, which he acknowledged in an apology video, and court testimony from Dalle alleging that a drunk Homme told her “I want to fucking strangle you right now” on one occasion, and head-butted her on another.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Police chief in Mississippi town where 1-year-old was killed has been fired

Police chief in Mississippi town where 1-year-old was killed has been fired

Harold Vanderford made national news earlier this year after he shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old Black baby, while responding to a shoplifting call at WalmartLate Tuesday, the city of Senatobia, Mississippi fired its police chief, Harold Vanderford, after it was reported that Vanderford regularly used in his text messages. The town, which is about , made national news earlier this year after a white officer fatally shot and killed, a one-year-old Black baby, while responding to a shoplifting call at Walmart. Officers fired into a vehicle, shooting the driver and killing the toddler, who was being held in his mother’s arms.Though Vanderford submitted a resignation letter earlier on 1 September, the city’s board of aldermen unanimously voted to reject it and to terminate the officer instead. Vanderford’s firing came just under a week after the city that, despite the messages, he would “continue to serve the City with the confidence that was placed in him at the time that he was appointed as Chief”.

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The GuardianAIUSA
Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal

Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal

Semi-conductor giant bets that support for open AI models could offset potential slowdown in demand for chipsNvidia will buy the popular developer platform Hugging Face for nearly $13bn, betting that support for ⁠open AI models could offset a potential slowdown in demand for the semiconductor giant’s chips.Shares ⁠in Nvidia were ⁠slightly lower ​after the $12.93bn (£9.57bn) deal – which ranks among its biggest ever – was announced for the database of AI models on Thursday.

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The GuardianHumanityIsrael & Palestine
Israelis shoot dead two Palestinian teenagers after settlers encircle village

Israelis shoot dead two Palestinian teenagers after settlers encircle village

Troops escort settlers into al-Mughayyir and raze village outside Hebron as ethnic cleansing of West Bank continuesIsraelis have shot dead two teenagers in a Palestinian village encircled by settlers and Israeli troops have razed an entire village outside Hebron, the latest attacks in a surge of Israeli terror and ethnic cleansing across the occupied West Bank.The shootings targeted Khalil Abu Alia, 16, who was about to start 11th grade at the al-Mughayyir boys school, and 19-year-old Omar al-Nassan, who graduated from the same institution with top marks this summer.

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The GuardianScandalEast of England
Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film

Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film

Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform Nigel Farage is facing fresh criticism on the eve of the Reform UK party conference after some of his team were filmed appearing to plot to avoid electoral laws on foreign donations in an undercover investigation broadcast by Channel 4.A group of investigative journalists called Verbatim, funded by the , posed as a potential Reform supporter and his wealthy American father, an impermissible donor, who paid for £30,000 of polling commissioned by Reform and which benefited the party.

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The GuardianElectionsWest Midlands
Labour condemns Reform’s plan for £100bn in cuts as ‘half-baked’ and ‘incredibly reckless’ – as it happened

Labour condemns Reform’s plan for £100bn in cuts as ‘half-baked’ and ‘incredibly reckless’ – as it happened

This blog is now closedThe Electoral Commission has released for the second quarter of 2026. They show that Reform UK continues to rake in far more than other parties. Nigel Farage’’s party had declared donations worth £5.3m. Labour got £3.6m, and the Conservatives £2.8m.Most of Reform UK’s money came from Ben Delo, who gave £4m. As Rowena Mason reported earlier this year, Delo is a British billionaire convicted in the US for failing to implement adequate anti-money-laundering controls in his cryptocurrency business.

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The GuardianClimateAustralia
BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence

BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence

Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Niño has already broken records, with Pacific ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six monthsThe growing El Niño weather phenomenon to Australia’s east is already breaking heat records, with forecasts showing it will likely easily surpass previous events, according to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, as seperate research suggested climate change had greatly shortened the odds of the event hitting record extremes.On Thursday and would probably persist until early 2027, warning it had the “potential to deliver a massive blow to communities and economies across the world”.

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The GuardianHumanitySouth Asia
Aid operations in aftermath of deadly Nepal floods hampered by conditions | First Thing

Aid operations in aftermath of deadly Nepal floods hampered by conditions | First Thing

Guardian reporters in Nepal have witnessed first-hand the scenes of destruction and grief after the flash floods. Plus, a not-to-be-missed interview with the legendary Mr TGood morning. Thousands remain missing and the delivery of aid has been hampered by treacherous conditions in communities almost wiped out of existence by . A week after the disaster, survivors who fled up mountainsides are still being collected by army helicopters and evacuated.The mountain village of Syabru Besi was among those destroyed, with even the road to the village gone. According to local government officials, at least 500 people there are missing, a quarter of the population. The village resembles nothing more than a muddy riverbed, with just one building left standing.What have Guardian reporters witnessed? Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Gaurav Pokharel have been in Betrawati and Rasuwa districts with the photographer Ahmer Khan. In this video, alongside haunting footage of the debris. They have in a region now full of human suffering.

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The GuardianHealthcareUnited Kingdom
Assisted dying, palliative care and patient choice | Letters

Assisted dying, palliative care and patient choice | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Dr Zubir Ahmed, who argued that better palliative care should be prioritised before assisted dying is legalisedI work as a renal physician, including on a transplant ward, so I will have had many of the same experiences as Zubir Ahmed, but I do not share his opinion about assisted dying ().It is universally agreed that patients with capacity should be able to make decisions about their treatment. Their decision is the one that matters if they have the ability to use and understand the relevant information and can communicate any decision they make. The doctor needs to explain possible options and their likely outcomes in as fair and balanced a manner as possible.

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The TelegraphElectionsLondon
Burnham may have missed an opportunity to lead on assisted dying

Burnham may have missed an opportunity to lead on assisted dying

The issue of assisted dying for the terminally ill will return to the Commons shortly after MPs return from their long summer recess for what promises to be a challenging new parliamentary term. Among the many items on the “to do” list of our new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, will be to offer MPs across the House crucial leadership on one of the most morally and ethically vexed issues they will ever deal with.

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The GuardianElectionsUnited Kingdom
Andy Burnham says he will not vote on assisted dying bill to avoid swaying debate

Andy Burnham says he will not vote on assisted dying bill to avoid swaying debate

Exclusive: PM also warns his ministers against trying to influence vote when bill returns to Commons next monthAndy Burnham has told Labour MPs that he will not cast a vote when the assisted dying bill returns to the Commons next month, to avoid influencing the debate.While supporters of the measure welcomed his move, No 10 officials said the prime minister had no wish to affect the process in either direction, and was just doing what he thought was best to allow MPs to reach their own collective view.

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The GuardianBusinessmenUSA
Will the Clippers’ $30m fine tame the NBA’s billionaire class? We’re about to find out

Will the Clippers’ $30m fine tame the NBA’s billionaire class? We’re about to find out

The league is awash with ultra-wealthy owners. Adam Silver is hoping a hefty punishment for the Clippers will send them a message about who is in chargeWhen Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for $2bn in 2014, it was widely regarded as a coup for the NBA.Not only is Ballmer one of the richest men in the world – – but his passion and enthusiasm for the sport stood in stark contrast to the team’s embattled former owner. Donald Sterling, who bought the Clippers for $12.5m in 1981, was forced to sell after being handed a lifetime ban by the NBA in response to a series of .

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The GuardianBusinessmenUSA
Clippers docked five first-round draft picks and fined $30m over Kawhi Leonard scandal

Clippers docked five first-round draft picks and fined $30m over Kawhi Leonard scandal

Team circumvented salary cap rules to sign starOwner Steve Ballmer lands one-year banThe NBA has handed down one of the biggest punishments in the history of the league to the Los Angeles Clippers after finding that the franchise when it courted Kawhi Leonard as a free agent.The league has stripped the team of five first-round draft picks, giving the team no natural pick in the draft from 2029 through 2033.

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The GuardianInformationUSA
Fox News Media abruptly ousts longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo

Fox News Media abruptly ousts longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo

Bartiromo had been a host at the network for more than a decade and Fox gave no explanation for the decisionFox News Media on Thursday abruptly ousted one of its most well-known hosts and anchors, Maria Bartiromo, without providing an explanation.“Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” the network said in a press release, adding in a statement: “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 and a half years and wish her all the best on her next chapter.”

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The GuardianHumanitySouth Africa
‘We continue to suffer’: victims of apartheid-era Sharpeville massacre demand compensation

‘We continue to suffer’: victims of apartheid-era Sharpeville massacre demand compensation

Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South AfricaThe day dawned brightly on 21 March 1960, as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against pass laws, which forced “Black, Indian and Coloured” South Africans to carry documents at all times specifying where they were allowed to be.Abraham Mofokeng joined the march, one of dozens organised nationwide by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a breakaway group from the African National Congress (ANC). “The weather was very nice, the sun was out. You could not have suspected that the day would go so horribly,” said Mofokeng, who was then a 20-year-old factory worker.

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The GuardianPublic PolicyAustralia
NT government says no more ‘coddling criminals’ or ‘identity politics’ after experts walk out over ignored advice

NT government says no more ‘coddling criminals’ or ‘identity politics’ after experts walk out over ignored advice

Independent experts and organisations tasked with improving justice outcomes for First Nations people say Territorian government is not entering into ‘genuine partnership’Get our , or The Northern Territory government has hit back after a panel of independent experts tasked with improving justice outcomes for First Nations people stood down over what they described as a “facade of scrutiny, dialogue and collaboration”, with the territory’s attorney general saying there would be “no more coddling criminals, no more talk-fests, and no more identity politics”.In a formal letter on Thursday night, seven members of the Northern Territory Justice Policy Partnership (NTJPP) – a non-government panel of independent justice experts and representatives of Aboriginal community-controlled organisations – announced they would suspend their participation for a period of six months due to “a breakdown in genuine dialogue, partnership and shared decision-making”.

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The GuardianAnimal NatureSouth Africa
Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves

Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves

As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go togetherOn a bitingly cold night in nature reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo province, Duncan Kanyakera watches as instructor Jacques Viljoen deploys a thermal drone in search of a lone cheetah. Once the drone has disappeared into the inky sky, Kanyakera, from Tsavo in Kenya, and 20 other conservation professionals from across Africa turn their attention to the open-air screen in anticipation.Many of the students – from 11 African countries as far flung as Benin, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar – witnessing the demonstration have earned their places at Lapalala after performing well on an online training programme for protected area technicians (PAT) run by the Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF). Also on the course, are five members of staff in training.

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The GuardianPoliticiansUSA
Colorado’s Republican governor nominee linked to controversial anti-sex-trafficking ministry

Colorado’s Republican governor nominee linked to controversial anti-sex-trafficking ministry

Marx’s All Things Possible Florida model uses private funds for cop pay and surveillance tools without public oversightThe All Things Possible ministry (ATP) is an unusual, and critics say potentially dangerous, operation. It has in the last year funded surveillance equipment and salaries for out-of-state law enforcement agencies, hired a range of private security and intelligence contractors, and is connected to a network of other self-appointed sex-trafficking rescue groups whose leading figures have attracted significant controversy.And its founder is the man who wants to be ’s next governor.

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The GuardianElectionsUSA
Missouri supreme court throws out new congressional maps backed by Trump

Missouri supreme court throws out new congressional maps backed by Trump

Setback for Republicans in redistricting battle as court orders forbids maps from being used in November electionsThe Missouri supreme court has unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by Donald Trump from being used in the November election and ordered a statewide vote on whether to uphold or reject the new map.The decision Thursday marks a rare setback for Republicans in a national redistricting battle. Republicans had hoped Missouri’s new congressional boundaries could help them win an additional seat and hold onto their slim House majority in the midterms. The ruling still could be appealed to the US supreme court.

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