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• 'Amtrak Joe' Biden touts $16 billion for passenger rail projects

  06-11-2023 23:54 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Joe Biden has promoted new cash for Amtrak
  
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• Europe migrant crisis: Italy to build migrant centres in Albania

  06-11-2023 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The centres will be able to process more than 30,000 asylum seekers a year, Italy's PM has said.
  
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• Backed into a legal corner, Donald Trump comes out swinging in court

  06-11-2023 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Taking the stand in his own defence, Donald Trump engaged in heated exchanges with Judge Engoron.
  
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• Indiana woman allegedly crashes 'on purpose' into what she thought was Jewish school

  06-11-2023 22:45 via abcnews.go.com
  
  An Indiana woman allegedly crashed "on purpose" into what she thought was a Jewish school.
  
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• Indi Gregory: Critically ill baby granted Italian citizenship

  06-11-2023 22:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she will defend Indi Gregory's life until the end.
  
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• South Africa recalls all diplomats from Israel

  06-11-2023 22:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The move is in response to one of the heaviest nights of airstrikes in Gaza since the conflict began.
  
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• Capitol police find gun with 'giggle switch' after armed men crash into barricade

  06-11-2023 22:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Capitol Police say they arrested two men, armed with guns, who crashed a stolen car into a barricade outside the Capitol Sunday.
  
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• Oldest black hole discovered dating back to 470 million years after the Big Bang

  06-11-2023 22:10 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang
  
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• Catholic church to close after longtime pastor suspended over harassment settlement

  06-11-2023 22:10 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Archdiocese of Baltimore will end religious services at one of the city’s Catholic churches after its longtime pastor was recently suspended from ministry
  
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• Australia news live: big emitters must ‘pay for the damage’ of climate crisis, Pacific envoy says; interest rates tipped to rise

  06-11-2023 22:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Record level of stressed households projected as all but four of 39 economists in survey tip Melbourne Cup Day hike. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe government services minister, Bill Shorten, was also asked about the Reserve Bank’s upcoming decision on interest rates later today.He acknowledged the Reserve Bank is independent of the government but said “I hope it stays static”:[I] just know a lot of m
  
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• Trump claims New York fraud trial is ‘election interference’ – live

  06-11-2023 22:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-president, who faces election meddling charges in Georgia, makes remark during testimonyTrump claims financial statements at heart of $250m fraud trial are ‘worthless’At a glance: what we’ve learned from testimony so farBefore heading to the court, Trump used Truth Social to attack the judge and attorney general in the case and claimed once again the case is politically motivated:Got a really Biased, Nasty, Club controlled, but often overturned, Judge, a Racist, Evil, and Co
  
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• Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis potent challengers to Biden in swing states, poll shows – as it happened

  06-11-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. For our reporting on politics polling, read our latest article:Biden faces calls not to seek re-election as shock poll rattles senior DemocratsGaza’s health ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory says more than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed theresince 7 October.We have a separate live blog covering the conflict, and you can follow it here: Continue reading...
  
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• Organisers of pro-Palestine march in London fear Met poised to impose ban

  06-11-2023 21:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Force could apply to outlaw protest on grounds of risk of disorder, but move would be ‘shocking’ threat to freedom of expression, rights campaigners sayIsrael and Hamas at war – latest updatesThe Metropolitan police appeared to be on the brink of banning Saturday’s planned pro-Palestine march through London after claiming that a protest on Remembrance Day would be inappropriate and risked violence.After a meeting between organisers of the protests and the Met, a statement
  
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• Trump claims financial statements at heart of $250m fraud trial are ‘worthless’

  06-11-2023 21:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Former president takes stand in New York Trump Organization trial as judge asks lawyer to ‘control your client’Trump testifies at fraud trial – live updatesAt a glance: what we’ve learned so farDonald Trump took the stand in a Manhattan federal courthouse on Monday and angrily claimed the financial statements at the heart of his $250m civil fraud lawsuit were “worthless” and the trial was a political “witch-hunt”.In a day of sometimes heated, somet
  
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• OpenAI offers to pay for ChatGPT customers’ copyright lawsuits

  06-11-2023 21:36 via theguardian.com
  
  At its first showcase, the ChatGPT creator unveiled an app store, a new AI model, and a legal strategy for copyright infringement suitsRather than remove copyrighted material from ChatGPT’s training dataset, the chatbot’s creator is offering to cover its clients’ legal costs for copyright infringement suits.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Monday: “We can defend our customers and pay the costs incurred if you face legal claims around copyright infringement and this applies b
  
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• Florida boy calls 911 for a hug from officer

  06-11-2023 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Video shows the moment a deputy responded to the emergency call - and what he taught the boy.
  
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• World Press Photo exhibition: Hungary museum head sacked over LGBT content

  06-11-2023 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A top curator is accused of breaking a controversial law that restricts materials for under-18s.
  
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• Indie band the Night Cafe ‘devastated’ by sudden death of lead singer Sean Martin

  06-11-2023 21:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Frontman’s Liverpool bandmates and fellow touring band the Wombats post tribute message and pictures onlineThe indie band the Night Cafe have said they are “devastated” as they announced the sudden death of their lead singer, Sean Martin. The group, from Liverpool, announced the news on Instagram: “We are devastated to share the sudden passing of our best friend Sean.“Words can’t describe the pain we are feeling right now. We’re still struggling to proce
  
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• ‘I could never dream such a nightmare’: Gaza in grip of humanitarian disaster

  06-11-2023 21:16 via theguardian.com
  
  UN official, medics and displaced people tell of overcrowding, panic and lack of essentials as bombardment continuesIsrael-Hamas war: latest updatesUN-run shelters in Gaza are so crowded that it is impossible to count the people needing food, water, medicine and other basics, administrators say, as more fighting and bombardments continue to arrive.“It is a terrible, terrible situation. There is no room even to sleep on the floor. There is one toilet for 700 or 800 people. No bread, no stov
  
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• Gaza becoming ‘a graveyard for children’, says UN secretary general

  06-11-2023 21:16 via theguardian.com
  
  António Guterres calls for more aid trucks to enter besieged territory and calls for end to ‘dead end of destruction’The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has warned that the Gaza Strip is becoming “a graveyard for children” as he called again for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to allow aid into the embattled territory.The UN chief’s comments came on Monday after Gaza health authorities said the death toll had now exceeded 10,000
  
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• Tusk forced to wait as PiS given first chance to form Polish government

  06-11-2023 21:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Law and Justice party won most votes in last month’s election but all other parties have ruled out working with themDonald Tusk, who declared victory in last month’s Polish parliamentary election, will have to wait several weeks before having a chance to form a government after the president, Andrzej Duda, said he would offer the first chance to do so to the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party.PiS, the nationalist, populist party that has governed Poland for the past eight years, won
  
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• James Corden strikes deal for new podcast with SiriusXM

  06-11-2023 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Audio show expected to premiere early in 2024 will feature in-depth discussions with world’s biggest starsThe actor and comedian James Corden has struck a deal with SiriusXM to create a new audio interview series, after leaving CBS’s The Late Late Show in April to spend more time with his wife and children.The podcast will “seek to tell the untold stories of some of the most well-known public figures”, a spokesperson said. Continue reading...
  
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• Israel-Gaza: The devastating effects of war on Gaza's children

  06-11-2023 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Fergal Keane reports on the children suffering in Gaza, and the impact the war is having on them.
  
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• Train operators to be forced to run 40% of normal timetable on strike days

  06-11-2023 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Minimum service level regulations are being extended to rail workers in England, Wales and ScotlandTrain operators will be forced to guarantee that 40% of a normal timetable will run on strike days under a law to be introduced to parliament on Tuesday.The minimum service level regulations would make sure that “certain priority routes can remain open”, the government said, although it was unclear which journeys would be covered. Continue reading...
  
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• Giants quarterback Daniel Jones out for the season with torn ACL in right knee

  06-11-2023 20:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones has a torn ACL in his right knee and is going to miss the rest of the season
  
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• David Lammy urges UK government to press Israel to end West Bank violence

  06-11-2023 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Letter to James Cleverly criticises ‘offensive rhetoric’ by some Israeli ministers and calls for settlers inciting hatred to be banned from UKLabour has issued its most direct criticism of the Israeli government since the Hamas attacks on 7 October, criticising the remarks of rightwing Israeli ministers over the West Bank and saying they have been responsible for “unacceptable and offensive rhetoric about Palestinians”.In a letter to the foreign secretary, James Cleverly,
  
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• 4 men charged in theft of satirical golden toilet at Churchill's birthplace

  06-11-2023 20:10 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Four men have been charged over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born
  
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• Unopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first time

  06-11-2023 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Letters from loved ones of captured ship’s crew during seven years’ war lay forgotten for centuriesA forgotten bundle of love letters sent to French sailors more than 260 years ago – but never before opened or read – has been discovered among British naval archives, revealing intimate details of 18th-century marital and family life.The remarkable stash of more than 100 letters was discovered by chance at the National Archives in Kew by Renaud Morieux, professor of Europea
  
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• Delivery driver shot multiple times in ambush by carjacker

  06-11-2023 19:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A 64-year-old food deliveryman was fighting for his life Monday after being shot multiple times in a Philadelphia carjacking.
  
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• Wildcats and domestic cats began interbreeding in the 1960s, study suggests

  06-11-2023 19:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Interbreeding may have boosted wildcat immunity to domestic cat diseases, but now threatens their survival as a distinct speciesHumans weren’t the only creatures to fall under the sway of free love in the 1960s. After 2,000 years of keeping one another at paw’s length, wildcats and their domestic cousins began to interbreed about 60 years ago, a new study suggests.Doing so may have helped to protect their offspring against diseases harboured by domestic cats, but this interbreeding i
  
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• Father of suspect in Chicago Fourth of July parade shooting pleads guilty

  06-11-2023 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Man pleads guilty in case that centers on how his son, accused of killing seven people last year, obtained gun licenseThe father of a man charged in a deadly Fourth of July parade shooting in suburban Chicago pleaded guilty to seven misdemeanors on Monday in a case that centered on how his son obtained a gun license.Robert Crimo Jr entered the plea as his trial was about to start in Lake county court, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was immediately sentenced by Judge George Strickland to 60 days in ja
  
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• Dad of Highland Park parade shooting suspect pleads guilty for helping son obtain gun

  06-11-2023 19:23 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The father of the suspected Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooter pleaded guilty to reckless conduct instead of beginning his trial on Monday.
  
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• 7 bystanders wounded in shooting at Texas college homecoming party: Sheriff's office

  06-11-2023 19:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Authorities outside of Houston are searching for the people responsible for a shooting at a large college homecoming event that left seven wounded
  
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• Blinken leaves Middle East with no progress on hostages or humanitarian pause

  06-11-2023 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Even number of aid trucks passing in to Gaza falls during visit of US secretary of state to regionIsrael and Hamas at war – latest updatesThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has ended his tour of the Middle East admitting that his efforts to secure a sustained humanitarian pause and greater constraint in Israel’s assault on Gaza was still “a work in progress”.His comments on Monday followed a meeting with Hakan Fidan, the Turkish foreign minister, in Ankara. He wil
  
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• Brazil: Lula deploys troops to ports and airports in organised crime crackdown

  06-11-2023 19:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Military intervention to last until May and is reportedly designed to cut off key drug and gun smuggling routes Thousands of troops have taken up position in the ports and airports of Rio and São Paulo and along Brazil’s western border as part of efforts to “asphyxiate” organized crime amid an upsurge in bloodshed and violence.The military intervention – ordered last Friday by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – will last until next May and is report
  
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• No 10 says 40% of trains must always run under new laws to limit impact of strikes to be brought in by Christmas – as it happened

  06-11-2023 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Government aiming to limit rights of railway workers, ambulance staff and border officials to go on strike. This live blog is closedRishi Sunak has not accepted that Suella Braverman’s description of rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” was offensive – although he declined to use her language himself.Asked this morning if the term was offensive, Sunak told broadcasters in a pooled interview:I don’t want anyone to sleep rough on our streets.That’s why the gov
  
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• Italy to create asylum seeker centres in Albania, Giorgia Meloni says

  06-11-2023 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Neighbouring country would house up to 3,000 people rescued at sea by Italian boats, with some exceptions for vulnerable groupsItaly’s far-right government has announced plans to create centres in Albania to accommodate asylum seekers, the prime minister said on Monday, hailing it as a “historic” deal with Tirana to manage migration flows.“I am pleased to announce with Albanian prime minister Edi Rama a memorandum of understanding between Italy and Albania concerning the
  
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• Pacific Islands Forum: what is it and why does it matter?

  06-11-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Climate change and rising strategic competition among issues facing leaders at region’s most important political gathering The leaders of Pacific nations will gather in the Cook Islands this week for the most closely watched meeting on the regional calendar. The Pacific Islands Forum, or Pif, is the main political decision making body for the region. This year discussions are likely to be dominated by climate change ahead of COP28, and will also address how to manage increasing geostrategi
  
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• Narges Mohammadi: Jailed Iranian Nobel laureate begins hunger strike

  06-11-2023 18:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Narges Mohammadi is being denied medical care in jail for refusing to wear a hijab, her family says.
  
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• Rebel group claims military action delaying release of Luis Díaz’s father

  06-11-2023 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Liverpool player’s father kidnapped in ColombiaGroup warns military in local area putting him at riskThe rebel group holding Luis Díaz’s father claims military action in the local area is not only delaying the release of their hostage but putting him at risk. Díaz’s parents were kidnapped more than a week ago – his mother was freed quickly – and despite pledges from the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN) to expedite the return of Díaz Sr
  
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• Israeli troops encircling Gaza City expected to enter in force within 48 hours

  06-11-2023 18:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Gaza split into two parts, says Israel, as US sends missile-carrying submarine to Middle EastIsrael-Hamas war: latest updatesThe Israeli military says it has completely encircled Gaza City after over a week of heavy fighting, in effect severing the territory into two, as Israeli ground troops appeared poised to enter the dense urban sprawl from the south.What seemed to be the beginning of the second stage of the Israeli ground operation was accompanied by a barrage of 16 rockets fired from south
  
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• Israel Gaza war: Hamas-run health ministry says Gaza death toll passes 10,000

  06-11-2023 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Israel started bombing the Palestinian territory after coming under attack from Hamas on 7 October.
  
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• The writers who reached out across the divide

  06-11-2023 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An Israeli and Palestinian set up a group to share experiences of life in Gaza. And then the war broke out.
  
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• Buy now, pay later firm Klarna reports first quarterly profit in four years

  06-11-2023 17:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Swing to profit of £9.6m by Swedish firm improves its fortunes in run-up to possible £12bn flotationThe buy now, pay later company Klarna has logged its first quarterly profit in four years, improving its fortunes in the run-up to a potential $15bn (£12bn) stock market flotation and a regulatory crackdown under a possible Labour government.The Swedish firm, which is the biggest BNPL provider in Britain and has about 150 million international customers, said on Monday that it ha
  
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• Concerns over Europe economy as poll finds almost 23% of Spaniards have anxiety over cost of living – as it happened

  06-11-2023 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Respondents to survey for newspaper El País and radio network SER also saw inflation as a bigger global threat than war, energy instability, terrorism and the climate crisis. This live blog is closedThe downturn in eurozone business activity accelerated last month, a survey showed today, Reuters reported.The final composite purchasing managers’ index (PMI) compiled by S&P Global fell to 46.5 in October from 47.2 in September, its lowest reading since November 2020.The outlook al
  
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• Israel-Gaza war: 'I couldn't believe it was possible to kidnap an 85-year-old woman'

  06-11-2023 17:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Adva Adar's 85-year-old grandmother was taken into Gaza on a golf cart after her kibbutz was attacked.
  
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• Dad of missing Irish-Israeli girl has hope again

  06-11-2023 16:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Emily Hand's family feared the eight-year-old was dead but it is now thought she is a hostage in Gaza.
  
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• Air strike interrupts BBC correspondent's live report from Gaza

  06-11-2023 15:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf was talking to Radio 4's World At One.
  
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• South Korean man attacks shop clerk he thought was a feminist

  06-11-2023 15:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man told the shop clerk he was attacking her because she had short hair and must be a feminist.
  
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• Melbourne Cup: when and how to watch the richest handicap horse race in the world

  06-11-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With showers predicted later in the day, French horse Vauban is the bookmakers’ choiceMelbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll findsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Melbourne Cup horse race will be run for the 163rd time on Tuesday. The 3,200-metre race will be held at Flemington and contested by some of Australia&rs
  
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