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• US Democratic senator Joe Manchin will not seek re-election in 2024

  09-11-2023 23:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Controversial West Virginia Democrat, 76, has for years held outsized degree of power within partySnap analyis: Manchin just made holding on to Senate harder for DemocratsWest Virginia’s controversial Democratic US senator Joe Manchin has announced that he will not seek re-election in 2024 and will instead “fight to unite the middle”.The 76-year-old senator, who for years has held an outsized degree of power within the Democratic party and often defied its leadership, appeared
  
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• Two charged with murder of missing man after body found in boot of car

  09-11-2023 23:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Justin Henry, 34, disappeared three weeks ago. The Met has asked for anyone with information to come forwardPolice investigating the disappearance of a man in south London say they have found a body in the boot of a car.Justin Henry, 34, was wearing distinctive jewellery – including a Rolex watch, three Cartier bracelets and a diamond ring – when he went missing on 15 October, shortly after leaving a McDonald’s drive-thru in Croydon, south London, in his Mercedes. Continue read
  
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• Taylor Swift ticket release: more tickets for Sydney and Melbourne shows to go on sale today for 2024 Australia Eras tour

  09-11-2023 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Frontier Touring announces new tickets to Swift’s five Australian shows will be released at 10am on Friday, with a ticket resale market launching in two weeksMore tickets to Taylor Swift’s Melbourne and Sydney shows are going on sale on Friday, with Ticketek also announcing a date for the highly anticipated resale of tickets.Swift’s Eras tour broke Australian records earlier this year in June, when more than four million people tried to snap up about 450,000 tickets for the fiv
  
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• Lawsuit claims Mark Zuckerberg ignored warnings about Instagram, mental health

  09-11-2023 23:27
  
  Meta could be forced to pay retribution to users if the lawsuit moves forward.
  
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• Former top Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby convicted of perjury

  09-11-2023 23:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Mosby, best known for failed prosecution of police in Freddy Gray’s death, was accused of improperly accessing retirement fundsA former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore was convicted on Thursday of charges that she lied about the finances of a side business to improperly access retirement funds during the Covid pandemic, using the money to buy two Florida homes.A federal jury convicted former Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby of two counts of perjury after a trial that
  
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• Trump ally Steve Bannon appeals conviction in Jan. 6 committee contempt case

  09-11-2023 23:22
  
  Former President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon has appealed his criminal conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
  
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• West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin will not seek re-election in 2024 – as it happened

  09-11-2023 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. You can read the full report on Manchin’s announcement here:Manchin will not seek re-election in 2024Joe Biden has hailed the tentative deal reached between SAG-AFTRA and television studios on Wednesday.In a statement released by the White House on Thursday, Biden said:Collective bargaining works. I applaud SAG-AFTRA and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for working together in good faith towards an agreement that allows our entertainment ind
  
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• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hospitalized for stroke in Mexico City

  09-11-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The 73-year-old had been slated to speak at a business conference when he suffered a ‘minor but real stroke’Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized for a “minor but real stroke” on Thursday in Mexico City while he was in the city to speak at a business conference. After a brief stay in the hospital, he said he was “flying home,” according to ABC News.Wozniak, 73, told ABC he was at his computer in the morning when he felt vertigo and dizziness. He had
  
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• Man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi absorbed conspiracy theories, trial hears

  09-11-2023 22:31 via theguardian.com
  
  David DePape, 43, charged with breaking into San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi and husband and carrying out hammer attack The trial of a man accused of breaking into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and bludgeoning her husband with a hammer has begun, with a defense attorney arguing that her client, David DePape, was caught up in conspiracy theories.Paul Pelosi, who was 82 at the time, was attacked by DePape in the early hours of 28 October last year and hospitalized with a skull fractur
  
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• Canada: murder charge for ex-boyfriend of woman abducted by fake police

  09-11-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Case of Elnaz Hajtamiri, taken from Ontario home by three men with police equipment in January 2022, had stumped investigatorsThe ex-boyfriend of a Canadian woman who was abducted by fake police officers has been charged with first-degree murder, marking the latest twist in a high-profile kidnapping case that had appeared to stump investigators for nearly two years.Elnaz Hajtamiri was dragged from a property in an Ontario beach community on 12 January 2022 by three men with police equipment who
  
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• Mexico authorities find 123 people trapped in locked trailer

  09-11-2023 21:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Majority of migrants rescued in Matehuala were from Central and South America and included 34 childrenAuthorities have found 123 people from Central and South America trapped in a trailer in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, the country’s immigration agency said on Thursday.Officials from the state attorney general’s office found the people in Matehuala, a city on the border of Nuevo Leon, on Wednesday after a local reported hearing cries for help from a locked tra
  
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• UN suspends withdrawal of African Union troops from terror-ravaged Somalia

  09-11-2023 21:41 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council on Thursday suspended for a period of three months the pullout of African Union troops from Somalia, where fighting rages with al-Qaida’s affiliate in East Africa. The decision follows a request by the Horn of Africa nation for the forces to remain in the country to help in the fight against the al-Shabab extremists. Somalia’s request was supported by the African Union, all countries that contribute soldiers to the force and the council, which agre
  
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• Portugal to hold snap election – the second in two years – after PM quits

  09-11-2023 21:34 via theguardian.com
  
  President announces 10 March date for parliamentary election after António Costa stepped down on TuesdayPortugal will hold a snap parliamentary election – its second in as many years – on 10 March, the president has announced after Tuesday’s abrupt resignation of the Socialist prime minister amid a corruption investigation.In an address late on Thursday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he would disband parliament, where the Socialist party has a majority of seats, only afte
  
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• Regulator vows crackdown on ‘squeamish’ charities rejecting donations

  09-11-2023 21:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Chair of Charity Commission says funds should not be rejected due to the views or preferences of donorsThe head of England’s charity regulator has promised to crack down on “squeamish” charity boards who reject large cash donations from corporations or wealthy philanthropists on moral grounds.Orlando Fraser, the chair of the Charity Commission, said the regulator may intervene where trustees have rejected or returned donations simply because their “personal worldviews or
  
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• Croatian man reportedly poisoned by cleaning agent in bottled soft drink

  09-11-2023 21:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Traces of a cleaning agent have been found in the fizzy drink that was served to a man in Croatia who was later hospitalized with a throat injury, triggering nationwide alarm, police said Thursday. An analysis of the bottle and glass served to the man at a cafe last weekend in the northern port of Rijeka showed that the contents of both included a highly alkaline substance. But it remains unclear how it got there, and other similar drinks that were tested were problem-free, police said in a stat
  
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• Student at German special needs school fatally shot by classmate

  09-11-2023 21:10 via foxnews.com
  
  German police said Thursday evening that a student with a handgun is suspected of having killed another student at a high school in the country's southwest, German news agency dpa reported. The suspect, a teenager, was detained as part of a large-scale police operation earlier in the day in the town of Offenburg. He had allegedly entered a classroom at the high school for children with special needs, and fired at least one shot from a handgun at a classmate, police said. GERMAN POLICE OFFICER AC
  
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• Maine mass shooting to be investigated by independent commission

  09-11-2023 21:08
  
  An independent commission will investigate last month's mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, in which 18 people were killed.
  
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• Rishi Sunak under pressure to sack Suella Braverman over Met criticism

  09-11-2023 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Opposition parties call for removal of home secretary as inquiries launched into article on pro-Palestine marchRishi Sunak is under growing pressure to sack Suella Braverman after she ignored Downing Street advice and published an explosive article accusing the Metropolitan police of political bias.Amid claims that the prime minister is too weak to remove the home secretary, ministers joined with senior police officers in accusing Braverman of stoking “hatred and division” before a p
  
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• Rome's Jewish Quarter vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti on Kristallnacht anniversary

  09-11-2023 20:55 via foxnews.com
  
  Rome is removing antisemitic graffiti that was scrawled on buildings in the city's old Jewish Quarter on Thursday, which marked the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — or the "Night of Broken Glass" — in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria in 1938. The graffiti, which included a star of David, the equal sign and a Nazi swastika, was being removed, the city said in a statement. "Events like this cause dismay, enormous concern and (bring) to mind the period o
  
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• Nigerian president approves controversial budget that covers presidential yacht, SUVs for top officials

  09-11-2023 20:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Nigerian President Bola Tinubu's approval of a supplementary budget earmarking millions of dollars for a presidential yacht and sport utility vehicles for his wife and top government officials has again stoked anger among ordinary Nigerians over what they see as a growing economic disparity. Tinubu on Wednesday signed into law the budget that allocates $38 million for the presidential air fleet and other renovations. Some $6.1 million budgeted earlier for the yacht was assigned by lawmakers to "
  
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• Belarus arrests dissident author's father on 'unclear grounds'

  09-11-2023 20:52 via foxnews.com
  
  A prominent Belarusian dissident author who lives abroad said Thursday that his father was arrested on unclear grounds after police broke into his parents' apartment. The seven police officers, armed with automatic weapons, also took electronics and data files from the Minsk apartment, said Sasha Filipenko. His father was taken away for detention, but no charges were immediately stated. BELARUS TRANSFERS NOBEL LAUREATE ALES BIALIATSKI TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT The arrest appeared to be connected w
  
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• WATCH: Deer leaps onto cyclist in South Carolina

  09-11-2023 20:48
  
  While looking out for obstacles on the road, an unsuspecting cyclist in South Carolina was caught by surprise when a deer jumped right over his bike.
  
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• Israeli forces kill 18 Palestinians in daytime raid in West Bank

  09-11-2023 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  At least 20 others injured in Jenin city and refugee camp, as IDF says it is conducting counter-terrorism raidsIsrael-Hamas war – live updatesEighteen Palestinians have been killed and at least 20 others injured by the Israel Defence Forces during an hours-long daytime raid on Jenin city and its refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.In the latest escalation in violence on the West Bank, occurring against the background of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the IDF said an airstrike
  
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• US forces targeted in broadest Iraq attacks since start of Israel-Hamas war

  09-11-2023 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Armed drones attack two airbases and explosive device targets patrol in most widespread strikes in a single dayIsrael-Hamas war: live updatesUS forces were targeted in three attacks in Iraq on Thursday but suffered no casualties, security sources have said, in the most geographically widespread series of strikes on US assets in a single day since the Israel-Hamas conflict started.Spokespeople for the US embassy in Baghdad and US-led international forces stationed in Iraq did not immediately resp
  
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• Judge rules rap lyrics can 'conditionally' be used as evidence in Young Thug trial

  09-11-2023 20:09
  
  The judge presiding over the trial of rapper Young Thug ruled that rap lyrics can be admitted by prosecutors as evidence in this case on a conditional basis.
  
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• US says Israel to begin ‘humanitarian pauses’ to let people leave Gaza’s north

  09-11-2023 20:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands move south as Israeli forces inch closer to two big hospitals in north where many have sought refugeIsrael-Hamas war – live updatesThousands of Palestinians continued to flee south from northern Gaza on Thursday as the White House announced that Israel would begin to implement four-hour “humanitarian pauses” in parts of the area to allow people to leave.The US national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said the pauses would allow people to pass along two humanitarian
  
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• Enraging supporters of Braverman could be a high-risk strategy for Sunak

  09-11-2023 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Tory allies claim she is reflecting the views of a ‘silent majority’ who are too often ignored at WestminsterGetting rid of Suella Braverman, if you are Rishi Sunak, is not as easy as it might first appear.The home secretary has already handed the prime minister several opportunities, none of which have been taken up. Continue reading...
  
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• Over half of UK nationals seeking to flee Gaza have left, Foreign Office says

  09-11-2023 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Distressing cases of families being split up prompt criticism officials are not doing enough to keep them togetherIsrael-Hamas war – live updatesMore than half of the British nationals seeking to escape Gaza for Egypt have managed to do so, but there are still distressing cases of families being split up, the Foreign Office has confirmed.It said more than 150 British nationals and families had crossed into Egypt, and that the total number that came forward seeking help to escape was in the
  
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• Spanish PM Sánchez set to stay in power with controversial Catalan amnesty deal

  09-11-2023 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Socialist party wins separatist support with offer that has provoked furious opposition, protests and questions from BrusselsEurope live – latest updatesSpain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is on the verge of securing another term in office after his socialist party won the support of Catalan separatists by offering a deeply controversial amnesty for those who took part in the illegal and failed push for regional independence six years ago.The deal between the Spanish
  
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• Man found guilty of murdering Ashling Murphy in case that shocked Ireland

  09-11-2023 19:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Jozef Puska faces mandatory life sentence over January 2022 killing of 23-year-old teacherA man has been found guilty in Dublin of the murder of Ashling Murphy while she was out jogging in broad daylight, in a case that sent shockwaves across Ireland.Murphy, 23, a teacher and musician, was killed on a canal towpath near Tullamore in County Offaly in the Irish midlands in January last year after being set upon and stabbed 11 times in the neck and left to die in a deep ditch. Continue reading...
  
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• Putin ally known as 'the Executioner' killed in Ukraine-planned car bombing: 'it was our operation'

  09-11-2023 19:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian officials have taken credit for a car bomb that killed a Russian-backed politician Wednesday, calling the act retribution.  Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense wrote on Telegram that "traitors to Ukraine and collaborators with terrorist Russia in temporarily occupied territories … will receive just retribution! The hunt continues!" Andriy Cherniak, representative of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Directorate, told Politico "it was
  
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• Carles Puigdemont: from self-exile to unlikely kingmaker of Spanish politics

  09-11-2023 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Architect of Catalonia’s illegal referendum of 2017 has signed deal to support Spain’s socialists in return for amnestyDespite the fast-moving, wildly unpredictable and frequently improbable turns Spanish politics has taken of late, very few pundits could have predicted the scenes that played out in Belgium on Thursday.A little after 2pm, a 60-year-old Catalan politician and fugitive from Spanish justice addressed a packed conference at the Brussels press club. As reporters brimmed w
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan, on Israel-Hamas war, says West is 'too weak to even call for a cease-fire'

  09-11-2023 18:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is accusing the West Thursday of being "too weak to even call for a cease-fire" in the Israel-Hamas war, a report says.  Erdogan, who previously has called Israel a "war criminal" for its military actions against Hamas, made the comment during a meeting of the 10-member Economic Cooperation Organization in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, according to The Associated Press.  Erdogan said Western nations and organizations are observing these "massacres
  
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• Riverboat dock worker involved in viral brawl charged with assault: Court records

  09-11-2023 18:33
  
  The Alabama riverboat dock worker who was involved in a brawl that went viral on social media has now been charged with assault, according to court records.
  
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• Ex-minister Gavin Williamson warned as he takes job at payment card provider

  09-11-2023 18:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Advisory committee on business appointments tells MP he must not utilise contacts in government in Lanistar role The former cabinet minister Gavin Williamson has taken a job at a firm launching a payment card “built for the influencer lifestyle”, which was previously hit with a consumer warning by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and currently only offers its product in Brazil.Williamson has gained permission to join the advisory board of Lanistar, whose website says it wants to
  
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• College freshman dies after she's shot in head while walking on track

  09-11-2023 18:25
  
  An 18-year-old woman was shot in the head while walking on a track in Nashville Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
  
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• Netanyahu rejected ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, sources say

  09-11-2023 18:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Israeli PM said to have turned down proposal in early talks and continues to take tough lineIsrael-Hamas war – live updatesBenjamin Netanyahu rejected a deal for a five-day ceasefire with Palestinian militant groups in Gaza in return for the release of some of the hostages held in the territory early in the war, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.The sources said the Israeli prime minister rejected the deal outright in negotiations soon after Hamas militants staged an unpr
  
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• Bangladeshi woman killed after police open fire on protesting garment workers

  09-11-2023 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Employees making clothes for fast-fashion brands have been demonstratingagainst a new minimum salary of £92 a monthA Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers demanding a wage increase. Anjuara Khatun, a 26-year-old machine operator at Islam Garments in Gazipur, was on her way home after the factory closed suddenly as a large group of protesters gathered nearby.Her husband told reporters he heard gunshots when po
  
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• Political blame game begins as ‘pollution season’ shrouds Delhi

  09-11-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Toxic smog is annual event for Indian capital’s 33 million residents but nobody seems willing to take responsibilityAs soon as the smog descended, the political mudslinging began.For over a week, pollution levels in Delhi have consistently remained in the “severe” category and its 33 million residents have been forced to breathe toxic air that exceeded healthy limits of pollutants by more than 100 times. Continue reading...
  
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• WATCH: Rescued seal pup finds 'furever' home at aquarium in Connecticut

  09-11-2023 17:44
  
  Biologists gave Kayok, a 1-year-old fur seal pup, a 50% chance of survival in the wild.
  
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• Rightwing politician shot in Madrid after Spain’s Pedro Sánchez strikes controversial deal with Catalan separatists – as it happened

  09-11-2023 17:33 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here“Today we live in a democracy worse than yesterday,” the conservative People’s party deputy secretary Miguel Tellado wrote following news of an agreement between the socialists and Junts.Spain’s socialist party and Catalan separatist party Junts have confirmed that they have reached a deal for Junts to support a Socialist-led government, Reuters reported. Continue reading...
  
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• Tourists flee popular Iceland spa after 'earthquake swarm' raises fears of volcanic activity

  09-11-2023 17:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Tourists are reportedly fleeing Iceland’s world-renowned Blue Lagoon geothermal spa after earthquakes rocked the area, forcing the spa to temporarily close the bathing spot over volcanic eruption concerns.  "Blue Lagoon has proactively chosen to temporarily suspend operations for one week, despite the authorities not raising the current level of uncertainty during this period of seismic activity," the Blue Lagoon Resort and Spa posted on its website.  The closure began Thursday a
  
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• Center-right politician shot in the face in Spain

  09-11-2023 16:53 via foxnews.com
  
  The former head of Spain's People's Party in the Catalonia region was shot in the face in Madrid on Thursday, police said. Alejo Vidal-Quadras was shot in the wealthy Salamanca area of central Madrid at about 1.30 p.m. and taken to hospital. Spanish police said they were hunting two men in connection with the shooting who were on a black Yamaha motorbike. The gunman, who was wearing a helmet, stopped and got off to shoot Vidal-Quadras. 13 DEAD, 24 INJURED IN NIGHTCLUB FIRE IN MURCIA, SPAIN After
  
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• American lawyer arrested for fatally shooting two environmental protesters at Panama road blockade: police

  09-11-2023 16:53 via foxnews.com
  
  An irate American man has been arrested in Panama after he allegedly shot dead two environmental activists who were part of a group of protesters blocking a busy highway on Tuesday afternoon. The dramatic incident was captured on video and posted online. Retired lawyer Kenneth Darlington, 77, was identified as the man featured in the shocking video. The incident unfolded after he got stuck in a traffic jam due to a blockade demonstrators had set up on the Pan-American Highway in Chame, about 50
  
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• Spanish rightwing politician shot in face in Madrid

  09-11-2023 16:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Alejo Vidal-Quadras, formerly of PP and Vox, reportedly in stable condition after attack by masked gunmanEurope live – latest updatesA Spanish rightwing politician and former vice-president of the European parliament is reported to be in a stable condition in hospital after being shot in the face by a masked gunman in a wealthy Madrid neighbourhood.Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a former leader of the conservative People’s party (PP) in Catalonia who joined the far-right Vox party in 2014, was
  
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• US and Chinese finance ministers open talks ahead of Biden-Xi meeting

  09-11-2023 16:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Chinese counterpart will meet in San Francisco on Thursday to start two days of talks aimed at making progress on a slew of economic issues when competition has markedly intensified between their countries. Yellen's talks with Vice Premier He Lifeng are designed to help lay the groundwork for an expected meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping next week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Fra
  
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• 46 reported attacks on US forces in wake of Israel-Hamas war: official

  09-11-2023 16:30 via foxnews.com
  
  A U.S. defense official told Fox News on Thursday that there have now been 46 attacks on American military bases since Oct. 17 – about a week after Hamas launched its war on Israel.  The official explained that the latest attacks in Iraq and Syria have not resulted in any injuries or damage to infrastructure. The attacks involve a mix of one-way drones and rockets and four of them happened after the U.S. conducted an airstrike in Syria last night, according to the official.  The
  
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• Heavy smog in Pakistan's capital leaves thousands sick, forces school closures

  09-11-2023 14:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to shut schools, markets and parks for four days, officials said Thursday. The decision came after the country's second-largest city was repeatedly ranked the world’s most polluted city. Doctors advised people to wear face masks and stay at home. Residents said many people were coughing and having breathing problems. "Wearing of marks and staying at home are the two
  
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• Tiny island forms after undersea volcano erupts off the coast of Japan

  09-11-2023 14:33 via foxnews.com
  
  An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last very long. The unnamed undersea volcano, located about half a mile off the southern coast of Iwo Jima, which Japan calls Ioto, started its latest series of eruptions on Oct. 21. Within 10 days, volcanic ash and rocks piled up on the shallow seabed, its tip rising above the sea surface. By early November, it became a new island about 328 feet in diameter
  
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• Myanmar’s military commanders responsible for rape and torture – war crimes report

  09-11-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearancesNew research into alleged war crimes in Myanmar has concluded that the majority of senior commanders in the Myanmar military, many of whom hold powerful political positions in the country, were responsible for crimes including rape, torture, killings and forced disappearances carried out by units under their command between 2011 and 2023.The research, by the Security
  
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