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• Saltburn star plays chaotic young dad in Bafta-tipped film

  19-10-2024 22:52 via bbc.com
  
  Bird sees Keoghan play a chaotic young father raising his children on a rough housing estate.
  
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• Cuba makes progress on regaining power after second total blackout

  19-10-2024 22:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Authorities say they are gradually re-establishing electrical service across the island, including to hospitalsCuba’s government said on Saturday it had made some progress in gradually re-establishing electrical service across the island, including to hospitals and parts of the capital, Havana, after state-run media earlier reported the national grid had collapsed for a second time in 24 hours.Most of Cuba’s 10 million people, however, remained without electricity on Saturday afterno
  
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• Murder investigation launched after death of man in North Ayrshire

  19-10-2024 22:35 via theguardian.com
  
  John Taylor, 44, found with serious injuries outside Kilwinning home in what police believe was ‘targeted attack’A murder investigation has been launched after a man died in what police believe was a “targeted attack” outside his home in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire.John Taylor, 44, was found with serious injuries outside his home in Pollock Crescent on Friday at about 1.55pm, Police Scotland said. Continue reading...
  
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• Teal independent Jacqui Scruby coasts to byelection win in Sydney Liberal heartland

  19-10-2024 22:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Scruby was backed by Climate 200 in the fight for the northern beaches seatFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Climate 200-backed independent is on track to secure a comfortable victory in the latest contest between the Liberal party and teal candidates.The Liberals were defending three heartland seats in northern Sydney byelections on Saturday, and were on track to easily hold two of those as votes were counted on Sa
  
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• Hamas leader Sinwar was killed in my ruined house, Gaza man tells BBC

  19-10-2024 22:20 via bbc.com
  
  The Israeli military released drone footage it said showed Sinwar in a partially destroyed house before he was killed.
  
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• Netanyahu’s house hit by drone as Israel and Hezbollah trade blows in Lebanon

  19-10-2024 22:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Shia group has not claimed responsibility for attack on PM’s home but says it fired several barrages of rocketsBenjamin Netanyahu’s house in the seaside town of Caesarea was hit by a drone on Saturday, causing superficial damage and no casualties, as Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon rage unabated after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.The Israeli government said that one of the prime minister’s three homes was targeted by three drones, two of which were intercepted
  
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• Cuba working to reestablish electrical service after second grid collapse

  19-10-2024 22:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Cuba's government said it was working again to reestablish electrical service across the island after state-run media earlier on Saturday reported the national grid had collapsed for a second time in 24 hours.The country's top electricity official, Lazaro Guerra, said on a morning TV news program that another grid malfunction in western Cuba had forced technicians to begin anew connecting three important power plants to the system, temporarily stalling progress.CUBAN POWER PLANT FAILURE LEAVES M
  
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• Charges dismissed against deaf man with cerebral palsy who was tased and punched by Phoenix police

  19-10-2024 21:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  All charges have been dismissed against a deaf Black man with cerebral palsy who was shocked with a Taser and repeatedly punched by Phoenix police officers.
  
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• Oakland Hills fire in California damages 2 homes, sparks evacuations

  19-10-2024 21:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  A five-alarm brush fire in Oakland, California, sparked evacuation orders as it burned two homes on Friday.
  
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• Ga. students take to streets to protest 'dehumanizing' voting law that criminalizes handing out water

  19-10-2024 21:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  ATLANTA — In the latest public rebuke of Georgia’s controversial 2021 voting law, dozens of Black students and activists marched through the heart of historic Morehouse College on Saturday in an effort to push back on what they call “anti-voting” measures in Georgia and other states.
  
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• 3 killed and 8 injured by gunfire following a Mississippi school’s football game

  19-10-2024 21:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  LEXINGTON, Miss. — Three people were killed and eight others were injured in central Mississippi early Saturday when at least two people opened fire into a group of several hundred people who were celebrating a school’s homecoming football win at an outdoor trail several hours after the game had ended, authorities said.
  
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• Rachel Reeves will tax businesses to plug £9bn black hole in NHS

  19-10-2024 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The chancellor is set to announce a revenue-raising budget designed to reset Britain’s public financesRachel Reeves is set to use one of the most pivotal budgets of recent times to call on businesses to pay more tax to help restore the NHS, amid warnings that the health service has been left with a £9bn hole in its finances.The chancellor is expected to stake her reputation on a tax-­raising budget designed as a reset of the public finances. She has already had to deal with cabin
  
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• Why experts say Christian nationalists’ rhetoric may spur violence

  19-10-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaders paint Kamala Harris as Jezebel, who is cast out – from a window, trampled by horses, and eaten by dogsAs the sky darkened on the National Mall in DC last Saturday, evangelical pastor Ché Ahn addressed the thousands of worshippers gathered there and issued a decree.Trump, Ahn said, was a figure akin to the biblical King Jehu, and “Kamala Harris is a type of Jezebel, and as you know, Jehu cast out Jezebel”. Continue reading...
  
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• GOP lawsuit against overseas votes draws ire from military families

  19-10-2024 19:45
  
  Some ex-pats living abroad are sounding the alarm after Republicans in three swing states have tried to delay accepting and counting overseas absentee ballots.
  
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• Three people killed in Mississippi in shooting after high school football game

  19-10-2024 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Shooting, preceded by a fight among some of the men, near Lexington early Saturday also left eight people wounded Three people were killed and eight others were wounded in central Mississippi early Saturday when at least two people fired guns at a group of several hundred people who were celebrating a high school football team’s homecoming win at an outdoor trail several hours after the game had ended, authorities said.The mass shooting near the community of Lexington was preceded by a fig
  
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• Judges punishing Jan. 6 rioters say they fear more political violence

  19-10-2024 19:10
  
  Judges punishing rioters for storming the U.S. Capitol nearly four years ago fear the nation faces more political violence on the cusp of the next presidential election
  
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• France’s foreign minister pledges support for Ukraine ‘victory plan’

  19-10-2024 18:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Jean-Noël Barrot says Russian victory would ‘push the international order toward chaos’ as he backs negotiationsFrance’s foreign minister pledged his support for Ukraine’s plan for ending the war with Russia, telling reporters in Kyiv on Saturday that he would work with Ukrainian officials to secure other nations’ backing for the proposal.Presented by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, this week, Kyiv’s “victory plan” hopes to compe
  
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• Israel has its Bin Laden moment, but it can’t be sure killing Sinwar will see off Hamas | Jason Burke

  19-10-2024 17:19 via theguardian.com
  
  The history of ‘decapitation strategies’ tells us it is almost impossible to know what effect assassinating a key figure such as Yahya Sinwar will haveIsraelis and others have ­welcomed the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and the ­master­mind of the 7 October 2023 attacks, as an “Osama bin Laden moment”. This reflects how many in Israel feel about the death of a man responsible for the ­murder of 1,200 people, mostly civilians and their compat
  
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• Environmentalists acquitted after contentious murder trial in El Salvador

  19-10-2024 17:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Former guerillas were accused of 1989 killing, but supporters say government wants to intimidate activistsSix former guerrillas, whose trial for a civil war-era murder was criticised by fellow environmentalists as politicised, have been acquitted by a court in El Salvador.Prosecutors had sought up to 36 years in prison for the former rebels of the hard-left Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. Continue reading...
  
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• Funeral home in Poland apologises after body falls from hearse into traffic

  19-10-2024 15:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Driver in Stalowa Wola described fearing he had hit person after he saw body in roadA funeral home in Poland has apologised after a body that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic.Polish media reported that a man was driving down a street on Friday in Stalowa Wola, a city in south-eastern Poland, when he saw a sheet on his car window. When the sheet slid down, he saw a body lying on the road. For a moment the driver feared that he had hit the person. Continue reading...
  
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• Hezbollah fires rocket salvo at northern Israel, Iranian leader vows 'Axis of Resistance' will continue

  19-10-2024 14:31 via foxnews.com
  
  Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into northern Israel, including near the city of Haifa, on Saturday after the Israeli military said more than 100 projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon. The Lebanese terror group said its "large salvo" of rockets hit a military base east of Haifa, AFP News reported. The Israel Defense Forces said approximately 180 projectiles were fired by Hezbollah, which has vowed to escalate its war against Israel after IDF strikes killed senior Hezbollah le
  
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• Netanyahu’s defiance of Biden-Harris Rafah invasion threats led to elimination of Sinwar, experts say

  19-10-2024 14:00 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to ignore dire warnings from President Biden and Vice President Harris not to conquer the last major stronghold of Hamas terrorists in Rafah proved to be correct, according to military and Middle East experts.Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the country’s Shin Bet intelligence agency announced Wednesday that "soldiers from the Southern Command eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organiza
  
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• ‘Bodies were dropped down quarry shafts’: secrets of millions buried in Paris catacombs come to light

  19-10-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers hope to uncover how people died and how diseases have developed over 1,000 yearsDeep beneath the streets of Paris, the dead are having their last word. They are recounting 1,000 years of death in the city: how many are ­buried in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up Les Catacombes, what killed them and how the diseases that may have led to their demise have ­developed over the centuries.In the first ever scientific study of the site, a team of archeologists, anthropolog
  
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• Mozambique opposition figures killed as protest grows over election results

  19-10-2024 13:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawyer Elvino Dias and official Paulo Guambe shot as their party plans a national strike over disputed electionAttackers killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing rounds at a car in which they were travelling, ratcheting up tensions before protests against a disputed election result, the EU and rights groups have said.Mozambique’s new opposition Podemos party and its presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, have rejected provisional results showing a p
  
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• ‘We leave viewers smarter’: fears over plans to close ‘world’s most highbrow’ TV station

  19-10-2024 13:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Unique experiment in German-language public broadcasting 3sat faces pressure from populist rightIn many countries around the world, breakfast TV means cele­brity interviews, soap operas and last night’s football highlights. On the German-language channel 3sat this Sunday morning, it means a one-hour philosophical discussion on trauma psychology, followed by a book review programme and a classical concert by the Munich Radio Orchestra.The collaboration between public broadcasters in Aus
  
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• Trump vows to deport millions. Builders say it would drain their crews and drive up home costs.

  19-10-2024 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  While some contractors dismiss the idea as political bluster, they agree they can’t afford to lose more people from an aging workforce reliant on undocumented immigrants.
  
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• How early puberty may contribute to the rise of breast cancer among younger women

  19-10-2024 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  More younger women are getting a type of hormone-related breast cancer. Doctors aren’t clear why but early puberty may be a factor.
  
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• Arizona is a key battleground state, but Senate and House races are taking place in their own universe

  19-10-2024 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  PHOENIX — Mesa Mayor John Giles, a Republican who supports Kamala Harris for president, is vexed by the disconnect between Arizona’s presidential race and what’s happening down the ballot.
  
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• Once thought a haven from Israeli strikes, a Christian town in Lebanon is now a scene of carnage

  19-10-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  AITOU, Lebanon — The scene of carnage in northern Lebanon showed heartbreaking snippets of everyday family life.
  
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• ‘All of this is to displace people’: Nabatieh reels from Israeli attacks on Lebanon

  19-10-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Airstrikes Israel says are targeting Hezbollah have killed the city’s mayor as well as civil defence workersMiddle East crisis: latest news updatesHussein Jaber, the head of Nabatieh’s civil defence station, picked his way through a mess of shattered concrete and twisted metal piled knee high, surveying what was left of the city’s Ottoman open-air market, built in 1910 and destroyed by Israeli airstrikes last Saturday.“When we were kids, everyone would come here to buy th
  
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• David Lammy raises human rights and Ukraine in Beijing talks

  19-10-2024 10:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Foreign secretary discussed China’s treatment of Uyghurs and support of Russia as well as ‘areas of cooperation’David Lammy pressed his Chinese counterpart on human rights concerns and China’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during talks in Beijing, the Foreign Office has said.The foreign secretary had been under pressure to take a tough line on a range of human rights issues with the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, when the pair met on Friday during Lam
  
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• UAV launched toward Israeli PM Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea

  19-10-2024 09:46 via foxnews.com
  
  A UAV was launched towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in the coastal city of Caesarea on Saturday morning.Netanyahu and his wife were not home when the incident happened, his spokesperson told Fox News.No injuries were reported in the incident. Israel's Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu had not been at his private residence for several days.The prime minister's office released a video on social media following the targeting of his residence where Netanyahu sai
  
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• Mexico navy seizes more than eight tonnes of illicit cargo in record drugs bust

  19-10-2024 08:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Six boats among impounded assets worth at least $100m off country’s south-west coast, navy says, after arresting 23 peopleMexico’s navy has said it arrested 23 people in its largest-ever drugs bust, seizing over eight tonnes of illicit cargo in an operation off the country’s south-western Pacific coast.“Navy personnel seized 8,361 kilograms of illicit cargo, which represents the largest amount of drugs seized in a maritime operation, unprecedented in history,” a sta
  
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• Somali security agents arrest journalist in night-time raid

  19-10-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Abduqadir Mohamed Nur’s reported abduction from home and detention is latest attack on press freedom for critical writing on regime, media union saysA Somali journalist was abducted from his home by intelligence agents early on Friday, according to press freedom campaigners.The journalists’ union Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) said the detention of Abduqadir Mohamed Nur was a “brazen attack” on the reporter and his news outlet, Risaala Media Corporation, for critical
  
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• ‘A little hyped up’: experts downplay claims over Petra archaeological find

  19-10-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers urge caution after Jordan tomb excavation and say new clues about Nabataean culture may lie elsewhereFor one of the most famous ancient sites on the planet, there is a surprising amount about the city of Petra – and the Nabataean people who built it – that we don’t know for sure.What exactly were their origins? How did their society operate? And why did they hand-carve such spectacular monuments into the reddish rock of the Jordanian desert? Continue reading...
  
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• Moldovans go to polls to decide whether future lies with Russia or the west

  19-10-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sunday’s presidential election and EU referendum takes place amid concerns over interference from MoscowMoldovans head to the polls on Sunday for a presidential election and an EU referendum that will mark a pivotal moment in the tug-of-war between Russia and the west over the future of the small, landlocked south-east European country of fewer than 3 million peopleThe pro-western president, Maia Sandu, hopes to advance her agenda by winning a second term and securing a “yes” i
  
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• Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK

  19-10-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  World Without End topped bestseller lists but was criticised for embracing nuclear powerIn 2019, France’s best known climate expert sat down to work with its most feted graphic novelist. The result? Perhaps the most terrifying comic ever drawn.Part history, part analysis, part vision for the future, World Without End weaves the story of humanity’s rapacious appetite for fossil fuel energy, how it has made possible the society people take for granted, and its disastrous effects on the
  
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• WATCH: Communication expert weighs in on Wisconsin Senate debate

  19-10-2024 04:46
  
  ABC News’ Jay O’Brien speaks with Columbia University professor Michael Chad Hoeppner to unpack the Wisconsin Senate debate between Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) and challenger Eric Hovde (R).
  
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• Elon Musk pushes false conspiracies about voting machines during town hall

  19-10-2024 03:38
  
  While speaking at a town hall in Pennsylvania, tech CEO and Trump supporter Elon Musk repeated false conspiracy theories claiming that voting machines rig elections.
  
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• ‘They refused to let me go’: Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs

  19-10-2024 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  One in six workers has engaged a firm to hand in notice for them, as younger workers reject traditional work ethicMari was just two months into her new job when she decided she had had enough. The position at an online bank in Tokyo, found through a staffing agency, had looked like a perfect fit for the 25-year-old, a member of Japan’s legions of temporary workers.But she quickly became despondent. “On my first day they gave me a thick manual to read, and when I went to my boss with
  
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• Mexican newspaper offices hit by gunfire in Sinaloa state capital

  19-10-2024 01:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Assailants fired a dozen gunshots at a building housing the newspaper El Debate in the embattled northern Mexico state of Sinaloa, the media outlet said Friday.The newspaper is based in the state capital, Culiacan, where rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel have been staging bloody battles.MEXICAN MAYOR'S SEVERED HEAD PLACED ATOP PICKUP TRUCK 6 DAYS AFTER TAKING OFFICEThe newspaper said it found at least four bullet impacts on the building’s walls, and more gunfire hit newspaper vehicles p
  
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