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Footage circulating online appears to show several diplomats being attacked in the vicinity of the village of Taybeh, Israeli police said.

France and Belgium condemn settler attack on diplomats, but critics say EU needs to act beyond words of condemnation.

Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft pulled out of the project over concerns about power supplies. The development by the British company Nscale, heralded by ministers as the country’s largest AI datacentre when it was announced in 2025, was planned to open at Loughton in Essex next year. Continue reading...

The Israeli military condemns the violence but the prime minister's office says it is part of a "smear" campaign.

Yvette Cooper also announces £140m investment in England's urgent care system, ahead of winter.

Instead of redrawing the region, Israel's wars of expasion pushed the region to work together against it.

Akhlaghi's experience centres on ballistic missiles, aerospace technology and defence-industrial production.

Exclusive: rules on same-sex wards could lead to delays in care, discrimination and animosity between groups, finds internal assessment Trans people could face delays and a greater risk of “corridor care” under new NHS England guidance that means they will no longer be able to use same-sex wards, according to an internal report. An NHS England impact assessment, seen by the Guardian, stated that trans people may also potentially experience discrimination and this could lead to them “avoiding accessing healthcare at all”. Continue reading...

Agency changes wording on website as Texas-based chemical firm continues manufacture of plastic containers The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly backtracked on a claim that the US has phased out two of the most dangerous Pfas compounds – Pfoa and Pfos. The EPA has found that virtually no level of exposure to either in drinking water is safe, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies Pfoa as “carcinogenic to humans” and Pfos as “possibly carcinogenic”. Still, the EPA is allowing Houston-based Inhance to produce containers from which Pfoa has been found to leach at high levels into the containers’ contents. The company makes up to 200m plastic containers annually used across the US economy. Continue reading...

States like Missouri and Iowa are choosing to not take up exemption designed to help low-income people keep coverage during hardship Some conservative states that have rejected hardship exemptions for the new Medicaid requirements may be choosing not to due to political reasons, experts say. New federal work requirements for Medicaid, slated to come into effect on 1 January, mean that adults enrolled through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion will have to work, attend school, volunteer, or take part in another qualifying activity at least 80 hours a month to maintain their coverage. Continue reading...

Overall, economic sentiment for Trump is poor, but small businesses seem fairly confident, according to several surveys There are 34m small businesses in the United States. They employ approximately half of the country’s workers and generate about half of the country’s GDP. They’re an important voting block. So how are they feeling about the economy as we head into November’s midterm elections? Overall, economic sentiment for Donald Trump is poor but small business – admittedly a diverse demographic that’s hard to poll – seems fairly confident. A number of recently published surveys and reports can help understand their mood. Confidence is generally stable. Continue reading...

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Hundreds at Lisbon tent camp demand action, as Giorgia Meloni says march in Italy was exploited by ‘hooligans’ The angry protests that have convulsed Spain and France in recent weeks have spilled over to Italy and Portugal, with rioters clashing with police and setting property on fire in Milan, and a tent encampment springing up in Lisbon over the weekend. A march in central Milan on Saturday to protest against rising living costs began peacefully but ended with masked rioters throwing stones, paving blocks and other objects at riot police and setting fire to barricades made from bar tables. Continue reading...

Rapid coastal erosion threatens coastal homes and economies, and as Super El Niño rounds the corner, a town is reckoning with the reality of climate crisis San Clemente is one of southern California’s most picture-perfect beach towns – a capital of American surf culture since the 1950s. In two years, 2028 Olympic surfers will compete at Lower Trestles, a world-class surfing beach. But the town’s longtime cultural and economic driver, its beaches, are now under threat. As pounding waves driven by late-summer storms in the Pacific devour chunks of the California coastline, some of San Clemente’s beaches are growing narrower, the sand increasingly eaten away. Continue reading...

A total of 15 NHS staff are sacked for accessing records of the Nottingham attacks victims.

A surge in drug smuggling from Israel to Jordan using drones and balloons prompts accusations of border guard collusion.

Poland’s FM addresses growing concerns that Russia’s war in Ukraine could spill over into neighbouring NATO countries.

From the attorney general stumping for Republican candidates to federal agents raiding the home of a Democratic congresswoman up for re-election, the department is violating long-standing norms Donald Trump’s justice department has aggressively inserted itself into the midterm elections in the contest’s final weeks, shattering the department’s longstanding practice of political neutrality and leaving little doubt about the department’s willingness to help should the president attempt to subvert elections where his party is forecasted to lose seats and ultimately control of Congress. In the last few weeks, federal agents have raided the home of a Democratic congresswoman up for re-election. It has touted criminal charges and arrests of non-citizens charged with voter fraud. The attorney general has hit the campaign trail to stump for Republican candidates. And the department gave California election officials 48 hours to investigate the citizenship of 20,000 people, and then sued the state when it refused to comply. The FBI also recently published a video criticizing Michigan senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and other Democrats , drawing an immediate rebuke from one watchdog, who said the video “has no place in a democratic society”. Continue reading...

In attempting to turn a public space in DC into an enclave for elites, Trump is moving the US capital closer to Graceland When is a tree not a tree? When it’s an obstacle to a par-3. If a tree falls in the middle of a golf course, does it make a sound? Yeah, probably. I wasn’t there, but I have to assume, based on my limited knowledge of the laws of physics. What I do know is that Donald Trump’s crusade to clear more than 400 trees for the purposes of redeveloping East Potomac Golf Links into a championship-level course isn’t happening. For now. Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist Continue reading...

Top US diplomat says Ukraine has requested access to military-grade version of Starlink for strikes deep inside Russia.

Sudanese are facing growing costs of medicine caused by the country's civil war.

Rep. María Elvira Salazar filmed an ad warning the president that he's "gone too far" on immigration. It reflected concern among some Republicans that their gains with Latino voters could be at risk.

A girl called Àìná was captured by an African king and later taken to England to become Sarah Forbes Bonetta, protege of the imperial monarch When she was seven years old, Bayo Randle’s great-great-grandmother Sarah Forbes Bonetta was presented to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle as a “diplomatic gift” from an African king. Victoria would go on to pay for Bonetta’s education, approve her marriage to one of west Africa’s wealthiest men, and become godmother to her eldest daughter. Continue reading...

BBC News hears from users, dealers, prison and recovery workers as the country battles with a deadly new drug epidemic.

Here are three scenarios for what the new global order might look like.

The sanctions were part of a measure that was named after Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has so far ruled for over a dozen years, pledged to respect constitutional limits while also seeking parliamentary approval to help defend Saudi Arabia.

The son of Wagner Group’s late founder hangs on to an African stronghold, making a fortune from guns, drugs and gold.

DSA leaders are working behind the scenes with their endorsed candidates to pressure Jeffries on progressive priorities.

The homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, has repeatedly said ICE agents are pursuing “the worst of the worst” criminals. But as Hamed Aleaziz, a reporter for The New York Times, explains, data shows that arrests of people with no criminal record have soared this summer.

Many Americans have decided that their country’s problem is that it has too many police officers. In fact, it has too few.

Farmers and ranchers have supported President Trump for a decade. But the war in Iran, tariffs and other administration policies have soured some on the G.O.P.

Ukrainian officials said the Pentagon and SpaceX have not yet responded to inquiries about disruptions to the U.S.-provided satellite internet service used by Ukrainian forces.

The Ukrainian leader is calling out the White House for relaxing pressure on Russia, drawing more ire.

Food inflation, gas prices and cuts to federal benefits have created a “perfect storm” for food pantries, which have become vital parts of the family budget for millions of Americans.

Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent, travels to a cattle auction in Calhan, Colo., to see if economic anxieties are affecting the loyalty of rural voters to the Republican Party.

MAHA’s alliance with MAGA had energized voters to support President Trump’s 2024 campaign. Now, some aren’t so sure.

The White House inquiry is focused on diverging accounts from Richard Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon about a $17 million transfer from a government account in the African country to a Texas defense firm.

The “Cornell 7” case has thrown a spotlight on safety efforts at schools, many of them student-led, like sober monitors and consent officers.

The GOP sees transgender athletes in women’s sports, border security and socialism as keys to convincing voters that Democrats are too extreme.

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Former PepsiCo-owned chain switched sides after a secret showdown, replete with taste tests and discussions over strategy.

Americans have grown accustomed to her kind of fraud.

Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.

Scott Kirby of United Airlines said that “it’s expensive to fly airplanes” and that airfares may have further to rise.

Record heat, a rising demand for power and an electricity crisis are closing in on Oklahoma families trying to keep the lights on and the AC running.

Three celebrities date artificial intelligence avatars on a reality show made in South Korea, where A.I. is hugely popular.

We may not want it to, but A.I. is asking us how to live.

The works of the British art critic John Berger offer the antidote to our age of infinite scrolling.

A teacher and 32 children were killed in northwest Pakistan in an episode has prompted safety inspections of schools across the region.