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Israel has several possible targets including military, economic or even nuclear sites, but all come with caveatsMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael has several options if its leaders want to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran, and while western leaders have urged restraint, a significant assault is expected. Possibilities could include strikes against military, economic or even nuclear targets, although Joe Biden said he had told Benjamin Netanyahu’s government the US would not support the last option.Iran has relatively weak air defences and it is expected it would struggle to prevent Israeli missiles or an air force bombing run, as was

Exclusive: ‘I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life,’ former first lady writes in memoirMelania Trump’s abortion views baffle both sidesMelania Trump made an extraordinary declaration in an eagerly awaited memoir to be published a month from election day: she is a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body – including the right to abortion.“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” the Republican nominee’s wife writes, amid a campaign

Deveca Rose convicted of manslaughter after leaving two sets of twins at Sutton home while she went to supermarketA woman has been found guilty over the deaths of her four young boys in a fire after she left them home alone to go to Sainsbury’s.Deveca Rose had left her two sets of twins in the terrace house with the doors locked when the blaze broke out on the evening of 16 December 2021. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/03/woman-found-guilty-manslaughter-home-alone-sons-fire-sutton Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-10-03 17:40:26 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

State counties are required to offer at least 13 days of in-person early voting. Many may struggle to meet thatThe devastating path charted by Hurricane Helene has taken at least 190 lives, decimated entire communities, and cut off access to food, water, and power for many. It could also disrupt voting, including in North Carolina, one of just a handful of states that will likely decide the 5 November presidential election.Long before the storm made landfall on Thursday, politicos have kept a close eye on North Carolina as a key battleground state, with polls showing the state is closely divided

Crew will include amputee ex-serviceman and cabin manager who began her career at age of 59A former serviceman who was injured on duty and a cabin manager who began her flight career at the age of 59 are part of a historic all-black airline crew flying from Manchester and London in celebration of Black History Month.The two flights, operated by the airline Tui, were flying from Manchester to Boa Vista in Cape Verde, and from London Gatwick to Jamaica on Thursday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/all-black-airline-crew-to-fly-from-uk-to-mark-black-history-month Author : Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent Publish date : 2024-10-03 16:00:10 Copyright

New memoir Unleashed admits Vote Leave £350m figure was wrong and criticises David Cameron’s ‘flouncerama’UK politics live – latest updatesThe risk to peace in Northern Ireland from Brexit was exaggerated and was used by opponents “to trap the UK in the EU”, Boris Johnson has claimed in his memoir.The former prime minister’s new book, Unleashed, reveals that many family members urged him to back remain, and concedes that the true figure for UK weekly contributions to Brussels were about half the £350m famously put on the Vote Leave bus. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/03/brexit-opponents-ira-fears-eu-boris-johnson-book-unleashed Author : Peter Walker Senior

Agreement to hand back UK’s last African colony follows rounds of negotiations and international pressureThe UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending years of bitter dispute over Britain’s last African colony.The UK expelled the Chagossians in the 1960s and 1970s, in what has been described as a crime against humanity, when it retained possession of what it called the British Indian Ocean Territory, or BIOT, after Mauritius gained independence in 1968. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/britain-to-return-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-ending-years-of-dispute Author : Haroon Siddique and Diane Taylor Publish date : 2024-10-03 14:01:04 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Several missing and more than 120 injured after storm makes landfall in Kaohsiung, with authorities pleading for people to stay insideTyphoon Krathon has made landfall in Taiwan, bringing destructive wind and rain to the island’s second biggest city.The storm has killed at least two people with another several reported missing and more than 120 injured. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/typhoon-krathon-makes-landfall-in-taiwan Author : Helen Davidson in Taipei Publish date : 2024-10-03 13:41:18 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Disability charity says Labour plan must not become punitive measure exacerbating ‘culture of mistrust and fear’UK politics live – latest updatesEmployment advisers are to be stationed in NHS hospitals under plans from Labour to push people on long-term sickness leave back into work,as one disability charity warned the proposal must not become a “punitive” measure.Wes Streeting, the health secretary, and Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, are understood to want to expand a model in use at the Maudsley psychiatric hospital in south London, which deploys employment support such as job-seeking, CV writing and interview training. Continue reading... Source

Sam Dutcher, 18, was in SUV that sped up to 113mph on its own before he was advised to run into trooper’s vehicleA teenager from North Dakota says he thought he was “going to die” when his SUV sped up on its own to more than 110mph (177km/h) and wouldn’t slow down – but he saved himself by intentionally crashing into the back of a Minnesota state trooper’s patrol cruiser.As the North Dakota television station WDAY told it, 18-year-old Sam Dutcher was driving near Harwood – relatively close to the state’s border with Minnesota – as night fell on 17

Study uncovers vivid and poignant accounts of reefs as high as houses off countries including UK, France and IrelandOnly a handful of natural oyster reefs measuring at most a few square metres cling on precariously along European coasts after being wiped out by overfishing, dredging and pollution.A study led by British scientists has discovered how extensive they once were, with reefs as high as a house covering at least 1.7m hectares (4.2m acres) from Norway to the Mediterranean, an area larger than Northern Ireland. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/03/europe-oyster-reefs-study Author : Steven Morris Publish date : 2024-10-03 11:00:55 Copyright

The prime minister said he’d paid back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality, including Taylor Swift tickets and his wife’s rented clothingGood morning. Yesterday Keir Starmer made the surprise announcement that he has paid back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality, including Taylor Swift tickets and rented clothing for his wife, received since he became prime minister. The news overshadowed reports about what happened on his visit to Brussels to meet the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (also important – here’s our story), but No 10 felt they had to put the news out yesterday because the donations

Social media stars of 367 Collins Street welcome baby birds to the nestFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJoy can be hatched in the most unexpected places. On Thursday, it was nestled into the ledge of a skyscraper in Melbourne’s CBD, where two peregrine falcon chicks entered the world for the first time.The newest members of Melbourne’s favourite family hatched in the morning on top of 367 Collins Street, witnessed by more than 1,000 viewers on the building’s rolling live feed.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email

Customer disputes over sewage spills, billing mistakes and water meters soar in past yearThe number of complaints that were unable to be resolved by water firms has risen by almost a third to the highest level in nearly a decade.The number of cases escalated to the Consumer Council for Water (CCW) by households in England and Wales who failed to achieve a resolution from their supplier rose by almost 29% in 2023-24, the watchdog said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/03/unresolved-complaints-water-firms-england-wales Author : Mark Sweney and agency Publish date : 2024-10-03 08:36:59 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Police had opposed events being held at Town Hall on 6 and 7 October and launched supreme court action to have them ruled unlawfulFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOrganisers of pro-Palestine events planned for Sydney’s long weekend have agreed to cancel a controversial vigil scheduled for Monday 7 October but are pushing ahead with plans to rally on Sunday.New South Wales police this week launched a supreme court action to have both events deemed unlawful, citing concerns over expected crowd size and potential hazards including “planter boxes”

Images from Arthur William Hobart, who leant out of a biplane to produce pictures of life in the interwar period, digitised and released1930s England from the air – in picturesThey are not yet a century old but a collection of black and white photographs taken by a pioneering aerial photographer shows how very different aspects of everyday life are for Britons today.The images, taken by Arthur William Hobart in the 1930s as he leant out of a biplane, capture people moving about on horse-drawn vehicles as well as in motorised ones, and rivers teeming with working boats. Continue reading... Source

State records 433 mpox cases and 26 hospitalisations since June, following a similar spike in VictoriaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales is urging those at risk of contracting mpox to get vaccinated as the state records its largest outbreak, which the top health official has described as “very concerning”.The NSW chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, confirmed there had been 433 cases since 1 June 2024, the state’s biggest outbreak since the first case in May 2022.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue

Strike on medical centre is the second attack on the centre of Lebanon’s capital this week and comes after the IDF suffered their deadliest day against Hezbollah since 8 OctoberMiddle East crisis: live updatesAnalysis: After a fortnight of military triumph, what is Israel’s endgame?Israeli strikes on a central Beirut medical centre have killed at least six people, after Israel’s military suffered its deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes with Iran-backed Hezbollah.Residents in Beirut heard a missile flying above the city before hearing the sound of the explosion. Videos showed the floor of an apartment building

In her memoir, former first lady has voiced support for the procedure, the right to which was overturned by a court of her husband’s justicesThe revelation on Wednesday evening that Melania Trump’s forthcoming memoir includes a full-throated defense of abortion rights, an issue her husband Donald Trump has repeatedly flip-flopped on during his presidential campaign, left people on both sides of the issue less than impressed.“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body,” Melania Trump wrote in her memoir. “I have carried this belief with

‘The RBA’s decision to maintain its restrictive policy stance in the near-term is appropriate,’ fund says in latest assessment reportFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastExtra government spending could inject “additional stimulus” into the Australian economy, posing a risk the Reserve Bank will have to lift interest rates to keep inflation on a downward track, the International Monetary Fund says.While Australia’s economy remained “resilient” and GDP growth should start to accelerate, it wasn’t yet time to cut official interest rates, the IMF said in its 2024 assessment report

Saturday morning showers will make way for a top of 29C on Sunday and 27C Monday, good news for NRL and NRLW fans headed to grand finalsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBlue skies and sunshine are on the way for New South Wales this long weekend with Sydney forecast to reach the high 20s on Sunday and during Monday’s public holiday.Stephen Stefanac, a meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, said Friday was looking dry for Sydney with a top of 23C, with mostly sunny weather becoming increasing

Defectors seeking to cross back into North Korea from the South are rare, though many struggle to adapt to life in their democratic, capitalist neighbourA North Korean defector living in South Korea has been detained after ramming a stolen bus into a barricade on a bridge near the heavily militarised border, in a failed attempt to return to his isolated homeland.The man – who fled to the South in 2011 – ignored warnings from soldiers to stop while attempting on Tuesday to drive through the Tongil Bridge in Paju, just south of the heavily fortified demilitarised zone (DMZ) between the

Some councils are already spending up to 80% of their budget on social care and say costs are rising and increasingly unsustainableThe spiralling cost of social services is eating into the budgets of England’s largest councils to the extent that many will soon be forced to abandon “nice to have” functions such as arts and youth clubs and Sure Start centres.Council leaders are concerned town halls are at risk of becoming “care authorities” focused primarily on the provision of care packages to an expanding number of at-risk children and frail adults at the expense of other services. Continue reading... Source

Researchers suggest stricter regulation as one in 10 people in Britain aged 16 or over now use e-cigarettesOne million people in England now vape despite never having been regular smokers, a seven-fold increase in just three years, according to research that has prompted alarm among health experts.Rates of e-cigarette use among adults who had never regularly smoked were stable until 2021, when one in 200 – about 133,000 people – were vapers. However, the proportion has increased sharply to one in 28 in 2024 – 1,006,000 people – a study published in The Lancet Public Health journal suggests. Continue reading...

A new report from the Victorian coroners court shows that 547 Victorians died from overdose last year. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNasser Mashni, president of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, spoke with ABC News Breakfast earlier and was asked about comments from the prime minister yesterday, that 7 October was “not a time for demonstrations to occur.”This comes as a pro-Palestine protest is planned for 6 October, and a vigil planned for 7 October – however the NSW police have applied to the state’s supreme court to attempt to prevent these