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• Boy, 8, dies after being shot in the head at farm

  29-09-2024 23:00 via bbc.com
  
  A man aged in his 60s is arrested after police respond to reports of a child suffering serious firearm injuries at a farm.
  
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• ‘Not near enough’ response from officials after Hurricane Helene, resident says

  29-09-2024 22:49 via nbcnews.com
  Asheville resident Alyssa Wilson expressed frustration over the lack of quick response after Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina. The devastating storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane and traveled through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee.
  
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• Tom Brady snaps back after Baker Mayfield says Bucs were 'stressed' under ex-QB's leadership

  29-09-2024 22:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tom Brady during the Fox broadcast responded to Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield saying the team was stressed when Brady played there.
  
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• Young Lebanese girl left fighting for life after Israeli strikes

  29-09-2024 21:52 via bbc.com
  
  Noor Mossawi, aged six, is one of a number of people in critical condition in a hospital in eastern Lebanon.
  
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• 'This felt like the end for Ten Hag - if not now, very soon'

  29-09-2024 21:35 via bbc.com
  
  How can Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag survive the humiliation of an Old Trafford thrashing by Spurs?
  
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• Lithuanian FM warns Russia can do 'so much damage to its neighbors'

  29-09-2024 21:11 via foxnews.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis shared with Fox News Digital his perspective as someone on the border of the Ukraine invasion, including concerns Russia can do "so much damage" even as its power wanes."In 2014, before the first war in Ukraine, people in the U.S. and … Western leaders would say ‘Russia is going down, it’s on its way down, its regional power – it's not a global power anymore, its influence is waning,&
  
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• Israeli Air Force strikes Houthi targets in Yemen with 'extensive' operation

  29-09-2024 20:10 via foxnews.com
  
  The Israeli Air Force is conducting strikes against Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed.The IDF said in a statement that its air force struck Houthi targets in Yemen approximately 1,800 kilometers from Israel.The Israeli military described "an extensive, intelligence-based aerial operation" involving dozens of IAF aircraft, including fighter jets, midair refueling aircraft, and intelligence aircraft, striking "military targets belonging to the
  
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• Pregnant British woman's 'guilt' over fleeing Lebanon

  29-09-2024 17:14 via bbc.com
  
  Alla Ghalayini, who arrived in London on Sunday, says she can "still hear the bombs" from Israeli air strikes.
  
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• Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake endorses Harris for president

  29-09-2024 17:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Sunday, writing in a statement that he wanted to support a presidential candidate who represents “a new generation of leadership based not on grievances of the past, but hope for the future.”
  
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• Sen. Mark Kelly says he's not ready to condition aid to Israel

  29-09-2024 16:25 via nbcnews.com
  Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) told Meet the Press in May he would support conditioning aid to Israel if they failed to “do a better job.” Now, Senator Kelly says he’s seen enough “positive responses” from Israel to not condition aid.
  
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• Poll: Democrats' advantage with Latino voters continues to shrink

  29-09-2024 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump among Latino voters, but that advantage has declined to Democrats’ lowest level in the past four presidential cycles, according to a new national NBC News/Telemundo/CNBC poll. NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki joins Meet the Press to walk through the numbers. 
  
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• Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in hiding with extra security following Hezbollah leader's death: report

  29-09-2024 14:55 via foxnews.com
  
  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has moved into hiding and remains at a secure location within the country, sources told Reuters.The decision came in response to Israel's strikes outside Beirut on Friday that killed the leader and founding member of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Two sources also told Reuters that Iran reached out to Hezbollah and other proxy forces in the region to determine what action to take in response to Nasrallah's killing.&n
  
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• Labour Lads, Tory Tussles and the Middle East

  29-09-2024 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Does the government have a ‘lads’ problem?
  
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• Iran vows revenge for Nasrallah killing; Israel strikes new targets in Yemen and Lebanon

  29-09-2024 14:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Iran vows revenge for Nasrallah killing; Israeli strikes displace up to 1 million in Lebanon
  
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• New Zealand reclaims world record for largest mass haka

  29-09-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 6,000 people perform Māori dance at Eden Park rugby stadium in Auckland, to break France’s recordNew Zealand has reclaimed the world record for the largest mass haka after more than 6,000 people performed the Māori dance, dethroning France.The record was broken in deafening fashion at Eden Park rugby stadium in Auckland, where thousands of men, women and children combined on the pitch to complete the traditional dance involving vigorous movements, stamping feet and rhyt
  
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• IDF announces death of another senior Hezbollah official following Nasrallah death

  29-09-2024 13:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel's military says it has killed yet another high level member of Hezbollah with an airstrike on Sunday.The IDF says the strike killed Nabil Qaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council, though they did not offer details on where the strike took place. The claim comes just days after an IDF strike killed Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah.Israel and Hezbollah have continued to fire barrages of missiles and rockets toward one another as they appear to be on the brink of all-o
  
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• What I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want you to see

  29-09-2024 13:38 via bbc.com
  
  BBC reporter gains access to the remote ocean territory despite UK and US attempts to stop her.
  
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• Keir Starmer has a problem with women, says ex-Labour MP

  29-09-2024 12:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Rosie Duffield says government focused on ‘greed and power’ and the ‘lads are in charge’, day after quitting partyThe former Labour MP Rosie Duffield has said Keir Starmer has “a problem with women” and that the government was “more interested in greed and power” than making changes to the country.In a broadside at Starmer’s leadership, Duffield told the BBC she was Labour “in my heart and soul” but said the scandal over senior pa
  
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• European ministers call for immediate ceasefire in Lebanon

  29-09-2024 12:05 via theguardian.com
  
  France says Israel must stop strikes, as governments voice alarm over escalation and killing of NasrallahMiddle East crisis – latest news updatesEuropean foreign ministers have stepped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, amid concern that Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, risks seriously destabilising Lebanon and the region.Even as Israeli defence officials continued to raise the prospect of a cross-border operation into south
  
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• Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance

  29-09-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Five executions, five states: a glut of judicial killing not seen in 20 years took place last week – and there was nothing random about itThe death penalty is waning in America. Most states have abolished it or put it on pause, the annual crop of executions and new death sentences is in decline, and public opinion is turning steadily against the practice.So the battle to break America’s primal adherence to a-life-for-a-life is prevailing. Continue reading...
  
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• European officials dismiss claim world leaders 'are laughing' at Trump, praise his 'strong message'

  29-09-2024 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Foreign ministers from European nations with close U.S. ties reacted to Vice President Kamala Harris’ claim world leaders are "laughing" at former President Trump, dismissing the claim. During September’s presidential debate, Harris said, "World leaders are laughing at Donald Trump. I have talked with military leaders, some of whom worked with you, and they say you're a disgrace."When asked about this quote, foreign ministers in attendance at the Uni
  
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• Boy, 8, dies after being shot in face at farm in Cumbria

  29-09-2024 11:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Man in his 60s arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter after suspected accidental dischargeAn eight-year-old boy has died after being shot in the face in a suspected accidental discharge on a farm in Cumbria.Police said they were called to the remote farm in the village of Warcop shortly before 3pm on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• Tory leadership contest should be brought forward from November, says Tom Tugendhat – UK politics live

  29-09-2024 11:36 via theguardian.com
  One of four contenders says new leader should be in place for Labour’s budget on 30 OctoberQ: Do you agree with Kemi Badenoch that some cultures are less valid than others?Jenrick says culture matters. But he says he disagres with Badenoch on immigration numbers. He says he thinks you have to have a cap on numbers. And he also says he believes the UK has to leave the European convention on human rights. He says Badenoch is just talking about developing a plan in a few years time, and that&
  
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• ‘Death isn’t necessarily always sad’: the pathologist taking the French book charts by storm

  29-09-2024 11:35 via theguardian.com
  Philippe Boxho’s macabre true stories are approaching 1m copies sold and shedding light on a ‘misunderstood’ jobA girl on a farm is devoured by pigs. A walker’s throat is slit by the broken-off blade of a lawn mower after it hits a stone. A woman fires 13 bullets into the body of her seemingly sleeping father but is cleared of murder because he had died of an aneurysm three hours earlier.Miniature tragedies like these cram the pages of the books of the Belgian forensic pa
  
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• Middle East crisis live: Israel says it has killed another senior Hezbollah figure as bombardment of Lebanon continues

  29-09-2024 11:12 via theguardian.com
  Claim comes day after leader Hassan Nasrallah was confirmed killed; more than one million people displaced by Israeli strikes, Lebanese minister saysIn Gaza, two people were killed in separate strikes this morning in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the enclave. This is according to the nearby Awda hospital, which received the bodies. It said another six people were injured.
  In northern Gaza, first responders recovered two bodies after a strike on a house early on Sunday
  
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• Kemi Badenoch says too many immigrants ‘who hate Israel’ are coming to UK – politics live

  29-09-2024 11:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Tory leadership contender accused of targetting Muslims but says: ‘I’m very careful when I speak. I’ve met many Muslim people who love Israel’Q: Do you agree with Kemi Badenoch that some cultures are less valid than others?Jenrick says culture matters. But he says he disagres with Badenoch on immigration numbers. He says he thinks you have to have a cap on numbers. And he also says he believes the UK has to leave the European convention on human rights. He says Badenoch i
  
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• The battle over male voters — and what masculinity looks like in 2024

  29-09-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  One of the biggest fights this election is the battle for young, persuadable men of all races who appear to be less firmly in the Democratic column than they were just four years ago.
  
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• Pets are traveling more, and companies are giving owners a longer leash

  29-09-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Travelers have been crowding into airports in record numbers this year — including on four legs and leashes.
  
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• Protests across Australia as Penny Wong despairs ‘continued retribution’ in Middle East

  29-09-2024 10:26 via theguardian.com
  Local Jewish and Palestinian groups are preparing to mark one year since the October 7 attacksGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs Palestinian and Jewish groups prepare to mark the first anniversary of the events that triggered the current Israel-Gaza conflict, the Australian government has again condemned the escalating cycle of violence in the Middle East, reiterating demands for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.“We’ve seen so much violence in the Middle Eas
  
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• Harrods must reveal all NDAs signed by Mohamed Al Fayed’s victims, say lawyers

  29-09-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As store confirms non-disclosure agreements will be waived, investigation continues into full extent of the late owner’s abuseLawyers acting for women attacked by Mohamed Al Fayed say Harrods must reveal how many people were silenced by non-disclosure agreements after its new owners pledged not to enforce any signed during his ownership.Fayed covered up his sexual abuse by intimidating victims into signing NDAs in exchange for money, as well as taking libel action against media outlets tha
  
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• Force companies to report their food waste, say leading UK retailers

  29-09-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 30 businesses have written to the environment secretary calling for mandatory reporting of wasted foodFood companies should have to report how much they throw away as a first step towards reducing the vast amounts of edible food squandered in the UK, a group of prominent businesses have said.About a third of the food produced globally every year is binned, much of it before it reaches the consumer at a cost of almost £22bn annually to the UK economy. Continue reading...
  
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• Flood warning as heavy rain expected in southern England and Wales

  29-09-2024 09:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Two weather warnings for wind and rain, with river levels already high and ground saturated in some placesEngland and Wales are braced for heavy rain and strong winds just days after homes and businesses were flooded.Two fresh weather warnings come into force on Sunday for wind and rain which will hit areas already saturated by downpours earlier in the week. Continue reading...
  
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• Qantas engineers warn of ‘flight disruptions’ in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane as they walk off job over pay

  29-09-2024 08:11 via theguardian.com
  
  But the national carrier says contingencies are in place to prevent traveller chaos in capital cities on Monday morningFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than 1,000 Qantas engineers across Australia will walk off the job in industrial action they claim could kick the week off with peak-hour travel chaos, but the airline says it has contingencies in place and is not expecting any disruptions to travel.Flights betwe
  
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• Winter fuel cut savings will be far less than Reeves expected, new analysis finds

  29-09-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A surge in claims for pension credit will make thousands more people eligible for the payments and other benefitsRachel Reeves has been warned that her cut to pensioner winter fuel payments risks saving hundreds of millions less than anticipated, in a new blow to her attempts to close the hole in Britain’s finances.The chancellor and her Treasury team are already re-examining parts of a plan to crack down on non-dom tax status over concerns that it may not raise any money. Continue reading
  
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• The UK will get hotter and drier for plants... except in Manchester

  29-09-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Thanks to the city’s famously rainy climate, trees suffering in the south can be moved, says the Royal Horticultural SocietyThe climate is changing British gardens everywhere. Well, almost everywhere. The Royal Horticultural Society has modelled how global heating will affect its property until 2075 and discovered that summers will be hotter and drier in all its gardens – except in Manchester.Greater Manchester’s renown as a rain trap – there is even a website tracking ra
  
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• Starmer visit to Brussels could lead to overhaul of Brexit deal

  29-09-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister hopes to use talks with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen this week to prepare for a reset in the springKeir Starmer will use a meeting with the European Commission president this week to pave the way for a springtime overhaul of Britain’s Brexit deal, amid warnings that closer ties will be essential in his government’s desperate search for growth.The prime minister will meet Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Wednesday. However, it comes with home se
  
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• Helene leaves a trail of destruction, climbing death toll and millions without power

  29-09-2024 07:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Helene kills at least 64 as North Carolina reels from devastating floods.
  
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• Queensland LNP promise voters ‘cheaper GP visits’ but Miles government calls it ‘nonsense’

  29-09-2024 07:33 via theguardian.com
  
  The state’s shadow treasurer, David Janetzki, says general practitioners would be exempt from payroll tax with David Crisafulli as premierFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland’s opposition claims visits to the doctor would be cheaper under an LNP government, but Labor said they haven’t explained how they will pay to make GPs exempt from payroll tax.The shadow treasurer, David Janetzki, announc
  
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• ‘Wicked problem’: Coalition doesn’t rule out EV road user tax as fuel excise falls with uptake of greener vehicles

  29-09-2024 07:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Bridget McKenzie tells Insiders she is working on the opposition’s transport policy ahead of the next federal election – including EV plansFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiberal senator Bridget McKenzie has again left the door open for a Coalition government to level a road user charge against owners of electric vehicles, indicating concern about decreasing fuel excise and the impact on budgets for road
  
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• The red flags that were missed or dismissed when Harrods was bought

  29-09-2024 07:01 via bbc.com
  
  Experts say Qatar either missed or dismissed much of what was already known about Mohamed Al Fayed at the time of the purchase.
  
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• Melbourne in for chilly start to week as cold front brings frosty spring temperatures

  29-09-2024 06:06 via theguardian.com
  
  It follows a weekend of wild weather in NSW, where SES responded to 270 calls including two adults and a baby stranded in flood waters near Tweed HeadsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA cold front moving across southeast Australia is promising to bring more frosty temperatures through next week after parts of New South Wales and Victoria shivered through a cold, wet and windy spring weekend.Rain is expected for south
  
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• More than 100 killed and 64 missing as flooding and landslides hit Nepal

  29-09-2024 06:01 via theguardian.com
  Officials expect death toll to rise as flood waters inundate Kathmandu after highest rainfall since 1970Flooding and landslides caused by continuous rainfall have killed at least 101 people in Nepal while 64 people are missing, officials have said.
  Rain began pouring down on Friday night and continued into Saturday, with low-lying neighbourhoods in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, inundated by surging floodwaters.“The death toll has reached 101, and 64 people are missing,” police sp
  
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• From Gaza to Lebanon, Netanyahu — not Biden — is setting the agenda in the Middle East

  29-09-2024 05:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. and Israel look increasingly at odds, with Washington worried about the dangers of a wider conflagration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu determined to hit hard at Iran and its proxies.
  
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• Australia’s magpie swooping season is here – but they aren’t the only birds to watch out for

  29-09-2024 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Noisy miners, butcherbirds and masked lapwings will also go on the offensive to protect their eggs and youngFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s infamous magpies have started to attack – but they’re not the only birds you might fall victim to this swooping season.Lesser known suspects including noisy miners, butcherbirds and masked lapwings also swoop to protect their eggs and young, typical
  
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• Trump leans into anti-immigrant rants and Harris barbs at Wisconsin rally

  29-09-2024 01:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-president speaks in Prairie du Chien flanked by anti-immigrant posters and lobs insults at Harris and BidenDonald Trump spoke on Saturday in the battleground state of Wisconsin, escalating his anti-immigrant rhetoric and taking his personal insults against Kamala Harris up a notch.Trump’s speech in the small community of Prairie du Chien, where a Venezuelan in the US illegally was detained in September for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman and attacking her daughter, was unusually d
  
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• Analysing videos of Beirut strikes that killed Nasrallah

  29-09-2024 00:57 via bbc.com
  
  How the BBC worked out the facts about blasts in Lebanon's capital from clues in social media footage.
  
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• JD Vance takes stage at his second speech today in Pennsylvania – as it happened

  29-09-2024 00:26 via theguardian.com
  
  After earlier speech in Monroeville, Republican vice-presidential candidate vows to ‘turn Pennsylvania red’ in Newton. This blog is now closed.Tim Walz paid a visit to Ann Arbor to watch a football game between the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota.The Democratic vice-presidential nominee was greeted at the airport by University of Michigan students, who had arrived in a bus donning a banner that read “Put Me In, Coach!”“I would always tell peop
  
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