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• CNN on scene after 'kamikaze' drones hit Ukrainian capital

  17-10-2022 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  Russia continues to target Ukrainian civilian areas with Iranian-made "kamikaze" drones, striking the country's capital at least four times on Monday, Ukrainian officials say. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports.
  
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• At least 13 reported dead in Russia after military plane hits building

  17-10-2022 23:50 via theguardian.com
  Residential building in Yeysk, near the Ukraine border, hit by Su-34 fighter-bomber, says defence ministryA Russian military jet has crashed into a residential building shortly after taking off near the border with Ukraine, sparking a major fire that has reportedly left at least 13 people dead, according to Russian news agency Interfax, citing a senior official.Video and photographs uploaded to social media on Monday showed a residential building engulfed in flames in Yeysk, a port and resort to
  
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• From protester to fighter: Fleeing Iran's brutal crackdown to take up arms over the border

  17-10-2022 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  A teenage dissident trailed behind a group of smugglers in the borderlands of western Iran. For three days, Rezan trekked a rocky mountain range and walked through minefields along a winding path forged by seasoned smugglers to circumnavigate the country's heavily armed Revolutionary Guards. It was a trip too dangerous for respite of much more than a few stolen moments at a time.
  
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• Liz Truss apologises for going ‘too far and too fast’ with economic changes

  17-10-2022 23:43 via theguardian.com
  Latest updates: In BBC interview, Liz Truss refuses say if her vision is ‘dead’ and vows to fight next election Judging by what Conservative MPs have been telling journalists in private over the last few days, the consensus (but not unanimous) view among Tories seems to be that Liz Truss will have to be replaced as party leader before the next election. But very few MPs are saying that in public, and Sky’s Tom Larkin, who is running a spreadsheet of Tories calling for Truss&rsq
  
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• US and Mexico call for international force to break gangs’ stranglehold on Haiti

  17-10-2022 23:25 via theguardian.com
  Scheduled session brought forward in view of dire conditions – rampant gang violence, a cholera outbreak and escalating famineThe US and Mexico have proposed the deployment of a multinational force in Haiti to help break the stranglehold of gangs over the distribution of fuel, water and other basic goods.Presenting a resolution at a special session of the UN security council on Monday, the US envoy to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, called for “a limited carefully-scoped non-UN miss
  
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• Booker Prize 2022: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire

  17-10-2022 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The prestigious book prize is won by Shehan Karunatilaka, for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali.
  
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• Why are the Russians using kamikaze drones?

  17-10-2022 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  Russia has launched a series of kamikaze drone attacks across Ukraine in recent weeks, striking civilian infrastructure far from the frontlines of the war. Retired US Army Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson joins CNN's Victor Blackwell and Erica Hill to explain what we should know about the deadly aerial weapons.
  
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• How kamikaze drones will reshape Ukraine's military strategy

  17-10-2022 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  Russia has launched a series of kamikaze drone attacks across Ukraine in recent weeks, striking civilian infrastructure far from the frontlines of the war. Retired US Army Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson joins CNN's Victor Blackwell and Erica Hill to explain what we should know about the deadly aerial weapons.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt shreds Truss’s economic plans in astounding U-turn on tax

  17-10-2022 23:01 via theguardian.com
  New chancellor tells Commons there will be tax rises and spending cuts, as PM dodges urgent questionJeremy Hunt has shredded Liz Truss’s economic plans in one of the most astonishing U-turns in modern political history, including slashing the energy price freeze which the prime minister had repeatedly championed.The new chancellor dismantled almost all of the platform that Truss’s leadership victory had been built on, including the majority of her tax cuts, and hinted a new windfall
  
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• Fact check: These Democratic ads attacking Republicans on abortion are misleading

  17-10-2022 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  Democrats are running ads attacking Republican candidates for supporting a federal abortion ban. Many of the ads are accurate, but in some cases the ads twist the truth. CNN's Daniel Dale breaks down three misleading ads and explains the tactics used.
  
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• Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

  17-10-2022 22:51 via theguardian.com
  Judges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and praised its audacity and ambitionThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker prize for fiction. The judges praised the “ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques”.Karunatilaka’s second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida comes more than a decade after his debut, Ch
  
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• Photographer documenting starvation: I want the urgency to hit home

  17-10-2022 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  Photographer and Save the Children ambassador Misan Harriman documents the horrors of starvation in children as Somalia faces drought in another rainy season.
  
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• Fighter jet crashes in Russian city near Ukraine; Kyiv says 108 women freed in prisoner swap – as it happened

  17-10-2022 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Fighter plane hits residential building in southern Russian city of Yeysk; Ukraine says it is first all-female exchange with Moscow. This blog is now closedKyiv hit by a series of explosions from ‘drone attack’A large fire has broken out at an energy plant in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth largest city, following strikes early on Monday morning, Reuters reports, citing the Dnipro mayor. The Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh is sheltering in an underpass at Kyiv station, near to where this
  
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• No 10 chief of staff accompanied Libyan militiaman to Foreign Office meeting

  17-10-2022 21:41 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook said to have acted as Fathi Bashagha’s PR adviser, as officials were lobbied on foreign policyMark Fullbrook, the No 10 chief of staff, accompanied a controversial Libyan politician involved in an attempted military coup to a meeting in the Foreign Office to lobby officials on foreign policy, it has emerged, raising further questions over his influence.Labour has said Fullbrook’s position as Liz Truss’s most senior official is “untenable” a
  
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• Jet had engine trouble after take-off for training flight, state media says. At least two people have been killed

  17-10-2022 21:12 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Horrors emerge from liberated Ukrainian city
  • Ukrainian commanders show video of drone strikes on Russian targets
  
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• 4 killed as Russian fighter jet crashes into residential tower

  17-10-2022 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  A Russian SU-34 fighter jet crashed into a residential building in the western city of Yeysk, which lies on the Sea of Azov, during a training flight Monday, according to Russian state media.
  
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• House report alleges Trump aides blocked public health officials from providing accurate Covid-19 information during pandemic

  17-10-2022 21:02 via cnn.com
  
  Trump administration aides "usurped control of CDC communications and blocked public health officials from providing accurate information about the coronavirus to the American people," the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, led by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, said in a report released Monday.
  
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• Dramatic video shows train barreling through parked bus

  17-10-2022 20:42 via cnn.com
  
  An investigation is underway after a train collided with an empty bus in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands.
  
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• Up was down, night was day. And was the prime minister OK? | John Crace

  17-10-2022 20:40 via theguardian.com
  Librium Liz appeared for a brief, silent cameo in the Commons as her captors, Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt, held courtIt was a very British coup. So polite that you could almost have missed it. So restrained that Liz Truss actually had to mastermind her own dismissal. If Librium Liz can be said to mastermind anything. It was like asking a death row inmate to administer their own lethal injection.But it was a coup nonetheless. There may have been no military berets, but we might as well have ha
  
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• Bensons for Beds buys Eve Sleep hours after administrators called in

  17-10-2022 20:40 via theguardian.com
  Bensons hopes move will widen appeal to younger customers as Eve chief blames ‘economic tsunami’ for demiseBensons for Beds has bought Eve Sleep hours after the online mattress specialist called in administrators, having succumbed to what its chief executive described as an “economic tsunami”.Bensons, which has 166 stores and is owned by the private equity group Alteri Investors, said it had bought the website, brand and other related assets of Eve, including its creative
  
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• Mother begged medics: ‘Don’t let my baby die,’ Lucy Letby trial told

  17-10-2022 20:14 via theguardian.com
  Court hears evidence about nurse’s first two alleged victims, twins who suffered sudden collapsesA tearful mother begged medics: “Please don’t let my baby die” as they tried to resuscitate the infant, the trial of the nurse Lucy Letby has heard.Letby, 32, is accused of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 more while working in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester hospital. Continue reading...
  
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• Jet had engine trouble after take-off for training flight, state media says. There's no information on casualties

  17-10-2022 20:13 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Horrors emerge from liberated Ukrainian city
  • Ukrainian commanders show video of drone strikes on Russian targets
  
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• Former UK Tory minister: 'Truss likely to be toppled immediately'

  17-10-2022 20:00 via cnn.com
  
  Christiane Amanpour speaks with Rory Stewart, former UK Conservative minister, and Mariana Mazzucato, Professor at the University College London, on the latest market turmoil and political chaos in Britain.
  
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• Kevin Spacey takes the stand in his own defense

  17-10-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  Actor Kevin Spacey will testify in the sexual misconduct trial against him, his attorney said in court Monday.
  
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• Fighter jet crash caused by ignition of an engine: state media

  17-10-2022 19:35 via cnn.com
  
  A Russian SU-34 fighter jet crashed into a residential building in the western city of Yeysk, which lies on the Sea of Azov, during a training flight Monday, according to Russian state media.
  
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• Sir Lenny Henry on the BBC’s first black producer

  17-10-2022 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Sir Lenny Henry reflects on the extraordinary life of the writer, BBC producer and presenter Una Marson.
  
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• Death toll rises to four people, including a pregnant woman, as rescue efforts continue, city's mayor says

  17-10-2022 19:03 via edition.cnn.com
  • Horrors emerge from liberated Ukrainian city
  • Ukrainian commanders show video of drone strikes on Russian targets
  
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• ‘Kamikaze’ drones hit Kyiv despite Putin’s claim of no further strikes

  17-10-2022 18:45 via theguardian.com
  Pregnant woman and her partner killed in latest wave of drone strikes on Ukraine’s capitalRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesRussia attacked Kyiv with nearly 30 “kamikaze” drones on Monday morning, killing four, including a pregnant woman and her partner, days after Vladimir Putin said there would be no more “massive strikes” on Ukraine.Victoria and Bohan, both 34, were found dead after a residential building was struck in the city’s central Shevchenkiv distric
  
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• Trump's company charged Secret Service 'exorbitant' hotel rates to protect first family, House report says

  17-10-2022 18:36 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump Organization charged the Secret Service "exorbitant rates" -- upwards of $1.4 million over four years -- to protect the former President and his family at properties they owned, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday.
  
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• Trump's company charged Secret Service 'exorbitant' hotel rates, House report says

  17-10-2022 18:36 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump Organization charged the Secret Service "exorbitant rates" -- upwards of $1.4 million over four years -- to protect the former President and his family at properties they owned, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday.
  
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• Belarus jails opposition activists on charges of terrorism and treason

  17-10-2022 18:34 via theguardian.com
  Nikolai Avtukhovich, leader of group, sentenced to 25 years, says human rights NGO ViasnaA Belarus court has handed down prison sentences ranging from two-and-a-half to 25 years to a dozen opposition activists accused of terrorism and treason, the human rights NGO Viasna has said.Nikolai Avtukhovich, the leader of the activist group, had been sentenced to 25 years, Viasna said on Telegram, in one of the heaviest sentences handed down recently in the reclusive country. Continue reading...
  
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• Consulate attack in UK reflects China’s aggressive foreign policy, analysts say

  17-10-2022 18:29 via theguardian.com
  Assault on protester in Manchester is seen as being consistent with Beijing’s hawkish rhetoric of recent yearsA shocking attack on a pro-democracy protester who was dragged inside the Chinese consulate in Manchester and beaten, allegedly by consular staff, was a manifestation of China’s increasingly aggressive foreign policy, according to analysts.On Sunday, the day the Chinese Communist party’s 20th congress opened in Beijing, a small group of Hong Kong protesters demonstrated
  
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• Live longer by adding strength training to your workout

  17-10-2022 18:09 via cnn.com
  
  Physical activity guidelines for older adults stress doing at least two days of strength training and 2½ hours of moderate to vigorous aerobic physical activity each week. Yet many people downplay muscle strengthening, relying on the heart-pumping benefits of aerobic exercise.
  
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• Taylor Swift's new lyrics got a Times Square reveal

  17-10-2022 17:54 via cnn.com
  
  Taylor Swift takes over Times Square.
  
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• Fuel protests gripping more than 90 countries

  17-10-2022 17:42 via bbc.co.uk
  People are protesting around the world against food and petrol price rises, BBC research finds.
  
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• Pregnant woman was among four dead in the attack on a residential building, city's mayor says

  17-10-2022 17:30 via edition.cnn.com
  • Horrors emerge from liberated Ukrainian city
  • Ukrainian commanders show video of drone strikes on Russian targets
  
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• Netflix defends 'The Crown' after former prime minister describes Season 5 scenes as 'barrel-load of nonsense'

  17-10-2022 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  Netflix has defended its hit show "The Crown" as a "fictional dramatisation," after former British Prime Minister John Major slammed its depictions of his time in office as "damaging and malicious fiction" and a "barrel-load of nonsense."
  
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• Jay Ellis talks possible 'Top Gun: Maverick' sequel

  17-10-2022 17:15 via cnn.com
  
  Fans may want another "Top Gun" movie, but one of the stars of the latest isn't sure that will happen.
  
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• Taylor Swift's new lyrics got a Time Square reveal

  17-10-2022 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  Taylor Swift takes over Times Square.
  
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• Kevin Spacey will testify in sex misconduct trial case against him

  17-10-2022 17:06 via cnn.com
  
  Actor Kevin Spacey will testify in the sexual misconduct trial against him, his attorney said in court Monday.
  
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• Early voting begins in Georgia with slate of key races on the ballot

  17-10-2022 17:00 via cnn.com
  
  Polls for early voting have opened Monday in Georgia, home to a series of critical midterm races for the US Senate, US House and statewide posts from governor to secretary of state.
  
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• Russia attacks Kyiv with 'kamikaze' drones, Ukraine says

  17-10-2022 16:40 via cnn.com
  
  A wave of kamikaze drone attacks pummeled Kyiv early Monday, killing at least one person and setting off warning sirens across the Ukrainian capital as commuters headed to work.
  
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• Ballon d'Or success will cap remarkable season for Real Madrid star

  17-10-2022 16:33 via cnn.com
  
  It is likely to mark the end of an era.
  
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• Barack Obama says Democrats need to avoid being a 'buzzkill'

  17-10-2022 16:19 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama thinks Democrats can be a bit of a "buzzkill," too easily offended over accidental slights and the complicated scenarios of modern life, he said in a podcast interview late last week.
  
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• Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar appears in court over 2013 Barcelona transfer

  17-10-2022 15:36 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil and Paris St-Germain forward Neymar Jr. appeared in a Barcelona court on Monday along with eight others, facing fraud and corruption charges over his 2013 transfer from Santos to Barcelona.
  
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• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's a victim of Jan. 6 riot during debate

  17-10-2022 15:32 via cnn.com
  
  During a Georgia debate, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to opponent Marcus Flowers calling her an "insurrectionist," saying she was a victim of the violent Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
  
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• George Floyd's family considering lawsuit against Kanye West after fentanyl claim

  17-10-2022 15:32 via cnn.com
  
  Kanye West's latest controversial remarks could land him in a legal battle.
  
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• Prosecutors want Bannon to be sentenced to six months

  17-10-2022 15:28 via cnn.com
  
  Federal prosecutors want Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to former President Donald Trump, to be sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of Congress, according to a recommendation filed Monday.
  
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• 'I didn't know if my career was over': Brooks Koepka reflects on horror injury after bumper LIV Golf win

  17-10-2022 15:25 via cnn.com
  
  An emotional Brooks Koepka clinched playoff victory in the final individual event of the LIV Golf Invitational Series in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
  
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• 'She Said' premieres five years after Harvey Weinstein story broke

  17-10-2022 15:16 via cnn.com
  
  "She Said," based on the book on the New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct, made its premiere at the 2022 New York Film Festival on Oct. 13.
  
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