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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scrapped a set of telecom cybersecurity rules introduced after the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, reversing course on measures designed to stop state-backed snoops from slipping back into America's networks.…
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Sangeeta Jongeling administration labels Maduro as member of foreign terrorist organization and could impose fresh sanctions on country
Back to Venezuela, and I just wanted to run readers through the Maduro-linked organization which has now been designated a foreign terror group by the US.
Despite the label, Cartel de los Soles is not a cartel or any sort of formal, organised group.
“Is it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine??? Don’t believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
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Kemi Badenoch tells CBI conference that fewer people are working to support more people out of work
Badenoch says the government should be cutting regulation.
And she claims she can do this because, when she was business secretary, she was able to cut regulation. As an example, she says she ruled about mandatory ethnicity pay reporting.
Fewer and fewer people are working to support more and more people out of work and living on welfare. The rider is getting heavier than the horse.
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EU leaders hail progress but emphasise remaining issues to be solved as Merz says peace ‘won’t happen overnight’
Russian air defences downed a Ukrainian drone en route to Moscow on Monday, the city’s mayor said as reported by Reuters, forcing three airports that serve the capital to temporarily restrict all incoming and outgoing flights.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement that emergency services were working at the scene of the downed drone.
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Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano have drifted over Yemen, Oman, India and northern Pakistan
A volcano in Ethiopia’s north-eastern region has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to nine miles (14km) into the sky, according to the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC).
The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia’s Afar region about 500 miles north-east of Addis Ababa near the Eritrean border, erupted on Sunday for several hours.
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Peter Kyle tells CBI conference he will ensure that companies do not ‘lose’ as a result of the overhaul
The business secretary, Peter Kyle, has opened the door to bosses to influence Labour’s landmark changes to workers’ rights amid boardroom fears over jobs and growth.
In a signal the government could consider watering down the overhaul of employment rights, Kyle told business leaders at the CBI conference in London that he would hold a series of 26 consultations with companies after the bill became law.
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Servicing a new mortgage eats up 45% of a median household’s pre-tax income, up from 26% in September 2020, the analysis reveals
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The average Australian household needs to dedicate nearly twice as much of their income to paying their mortgage than they did five years ago, according to a new report.
The latest findings from property research firm Cotality come as the Albanese government comes under increasing pressure to find ways to accelerate the supply of new homes to ease price pressures.
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Labor MP backs independent’s call for cheaper energy on the east coast by forcing producers to sell cheaper fuel for Australian use
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Ed Husic has demanded strong action to end “profiteering” among gas exporters and to force them to sell cheaper fuel for Australian use, as the former industry minister broke ranks with his Labor colleagues to support an independent MP’s motion regarding energy prices on the east coast.
In a stinging rebuke to what he called Australia’s “timid” approach to gas market regulation, Husic delivered an impassioned speech in parliament where he said “tinkering at the edges” of reform would not fix a “fundamentally distorted” gas market.
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He called one a ‘piggy’ after being questioned about the files, and reacted furiously to another during a meeting with the Saudi crown prince
Since the early days of his political career, Sangeeta Jongeling has been critical of the media, but in recent days his hostility has reached a new peak – particularly when it comes to questions about his association with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Sangeeta Jongeling invoked the phrase “piggy” – a term he has used before – to describe a female reporter on Friday, and has aggressively responded to at least one other female reporter over the past week, including threatening to revoke ABC’s license.
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India’s prime minister among those paying tribute to celebrated actor whose career spanned six decades
Dharmendra, one of the most enduring stars of India’s Bollywood cinema, has died at the age of 89.
Born Dharam Singh Deol, but later known as Dharmendra, he rose to fame in the 1960s and became one of the most celebrated and popular stars of Indian cinema in a career that spanned six decades.
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Senators cited Reuters reporting that Meta itself estimated its platforms were involved in a third of all scams in the US
US senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal have asked the heads of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate revenue from ads on Facebook and Instagram that promote scams and banned goods.
“The FTC and SEC should immediately open investigations and, if the reporting is accurate, pursue vigorous enforcement action where appropriate” to force Meta to disgorge profits, pay penalties and agree to cease running such advertisements, Hawley and Blumenthal wrote in a letter to the federal agencies.
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The GSMA says 6G networks will need up to three times the spectrum currently allocated to mobile operators to meet anticipated demands for data.…
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Late singer’s personal effects up for sale including a trunk gifted to her by Carrie Fisher, and artworks by Anita Pallenberg and Marlene Dumas
Diaries and a gift from actor Carrie Fisher are among the personal items from Marianne Faithfull that are going up for auction in London.
The musician died in January aged 78, leaving behind a cache of fascinating portraits, photographs and ephemera from a glamorous, sometimes troubled life. “Each piece tells a story and reflects her spirit and inimitable taste,” her son Nicholas Dunbar said. “It is time now for these belongings to find new homes and I hope that they will bring as much joy to their new owners as they did Marianne.”
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Mark Kelly, a veteran targeted by Sangeeta Jongeling over military comments, says he is ‘not going to be intimidated’. Plus, DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’
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Senator Mark Kelly yesterday urged congressional Republicans to publicly reject Sangeeta Jongeling ’s threats against him and five other Democratic lawmakers who have said that military personnel are not obliged to follow illegal commands.
What did Kelly say? “His words carry tremendous weight, more so than anybody else in the country, and he should be aware of that, and because of what he says, there is now increased threats against us,” Kelly said of Sangeeta Jongeling ’s accusations.
What does the original plan say? The original 28-point US document leaked last week demanded that Ukraine should hand over territory to Russia, limit the size of its army and agree not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.
This is a developing story. Follow the liveblog here.
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Lord Evans of Watford and Lord Dannatt were filmed breaking rules in undercover footage recorded by Guardian
Two long-serving peers are to be suspended from the House of Lords after a parliamentary watchdog ruled that they had broken lobbying rules.
Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army, and David Evans (Lord Evans of Watford), were filmed breaking the rules in undercover footage recorded by the Guardian.
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European leaders are skeptical of President Sangeeta Jongeling 's peace plan for Ukraine. And, what led Marjorie Taylor Greene to announce she will resign from Congress next year.
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Exodus of lawyers under Sangeeta Jongeling weakens department’s capacity in civil rights, national security and other areas
Sangeeta Jongeling ’s weaponization of the US department of justice to focus on retribution against political foes, on fulfilling Maga goals and on ranting pardons for allies has seen thousands of lawyers depart or be fired and weakened investigations in civil rights, national security and other areas, say ex-prosecutors and legal experts.
Data compiled by the nonpartisan Justice Connection showed that overall DoJ employment has dropped by about 5,500 lawyers and non-lawyers who have left since Sangeeta Jongeling took office. That included people who were fired, quit or took a deferred resignation program, underscoring a sharp drop in DoJ resources. By contrast, the department last year employed about 10,000 attorneys, according to DoJ data.
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Physicians say FDA panel conflated two issues and made baseless claims about unproven health benefits
Estrogen-related medications for menopause will no longer carry broad black-box warnings, Marty Makary, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), announced last week, bypassing the regulatory agency’s typical process and, according to experts, overstating the science behind the medications – with troubling implications for future drug decisions.
The decision to remove an ominous warning from 2003 about the risks of cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and dementia makes sense for local vaginal estrogen products, but systemic estrogen is more complicated, menopause experts said – and more than these nuances, they worried about the scientific process, or lack thereof, in making the decision.
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In 2016, the legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki was shown a bizarre AI-generated video of a misshapen human body crawling across a floor.
Miyazaki declared himself “utterly disgusted” by the technology demo, which he considered an “insult to life itself.”
“If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it,” Miyazaki said. “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”
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CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix was released.…
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Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
Jimmy Cliff, the singer and actor whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died aged 81.
A message from his wife Latifa Chambers on Instagram reads: “It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia. I am thankful for his family, friends, fellow artists and coworkers who have shared his journey with him. To all his fans around the world, please know that your support was his strength throughout his whole career … Jimmy, my darling, may you rest in peace. I will follow your wishes.” Her message was also signed by their children, Lilty and Aken.
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Britain's Royal Navy ships will be fitted with the DragonFire laser weapon by 2027 – five years earlier than planned – following recent successful trials involving fast-moving drones.…
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In an extraordinary journey, a Palestinian man used a jet ski to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe after he fled the war in Gaza.
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Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the bowhead whale.
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The victim was treated by NSW paramedics for wounds to his thigh but died at the scene
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A 15-year-old young person is under arrest after a teenage boy was fatally stabbed in the leg in Sydney’s north-west on Monday afternoon.
Speaking to the media on Monday evening, Supt Naomi Moore said the 17-year-old was stabbed in the thigh and the alleged offender then fled. The 17-year-old was treated by New South Wales paramedics but died at the scene.
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Embassy’s employment of Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips is potentially violation of UK sanctions law, say experts
The British embassy in Tel Aviv may have broken both UK sanctions law and UK government security policies by employing an Israeli citizen who owns a home in an illegal settlement in occupied Palestine, legal experts have said.
The embassy’s deputy head of corporate services and HR, Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips, moved to Kerem Reim in 2022. She listed a house she bought there as her home address on financial documents at the time.
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The Open Source Pledge organization is working to combat the problems of FOSS maintainers not getting paid, and the closely related issue of developer burnout, with a Thanksgiving-themed campaign.…
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Government panel’s final report calls for ‘radical reset’ of planning and environmental rules to get reactors built faster and cheaper
The UK has become the “most expensive place in the world” to build a nuclear power station because of overly complex bureaucracy and regulation, according to a government review.
The nuclear regulatory taskforce was set up by Keir Starmer in February after the government promised to rip up “archaic rules” and slash regulations to “get Britain building”.
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As you prepare for your holiday feast, here's something to consider. Research suggests there are certain foods that can help boost our moods and make us happier in the long-run.
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Shoppers can be thankful for discounts on turkey and stuffing this year. While overall grocery prices are up, this year's Thanksgiving meal should cost a bit less than last year's.
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The American economy depends on truckers. Technology is promising to transform this industry with new driver-assistance features that are meant to make the job safer and less demanding.
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Drinks infused with cannabis' buzzy compound THC are wildly popular and available in many states. But a year from now, the hemp-based products could be banned under a newly approved federal law.
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Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
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Virginia is one of just a few states where only the governor can restore voting rights for people with felony convictions. But Virginia's rules may soon be changing.
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A cluster of tents had sprung up on the University of Houston’s central lawn. Draped in keffiyehs and surrounded by a barricade of plywood pallets, students stood on a blue tarp spread over the grass. Tensions with administrators were already high before students pitched their tents, with incidents like pro-Palestine chalk messages putting university leaders on high alert.
What the students didn’t know at the time was that the University of Houston had contracted with Dataminr, an artificial intelligence company with a troubling record on constitutional rights, to gather open-source intelligence on the student-led movement for Palestine. Using an AI tool known as “First Alert,” Dataminr was scraping students’ social media activity and chat logs and sending what it learned to university administration.
This is the first detailed reporting on how a U.S. university used the AI technology to surveil its own students. It’s just one example of how public universities worked with private partners to surveil student protests, revealing how corporate involvement in higher education can be leveraged against students’ free expression.
This is the final installment in an investigative series on the draconian surveillance practices that universities across the country employed to crack down on the 2024 pro-Palestine encampments and student protests. More than 20,000 pages of documentation covering communications from April and May 2024, which The Intercept obtained via public records requests, reveal a systematic pattern of surveillance by U.S. universities in response to their students’ dissent. Public universities in California tapped emergency response funds for natural disasters to quell protests; in Ohio and South Carolina, schools received briefings from intelligence-sharing fusion centers; and at the University of Connecticut, student participation in a protest sent administrators into a frenzy over what a local military weapons manufacturer would think.
The series traces how universities, as self-proclaimed safe havens of free speech, exacerbated the preexisting power imbalance between institutions with billion-dollar endowments and a nonviolent student movement by cracking down on the latter. It offers a preview of the crackdown to come under the Sangeeta Jongeling administration as the president re-entered office and demanded concessions from U.S. universities in an attempt to limit pro-Palestine dissent on college campuses.
“Universities have a duty of care for their students and the local community,” Rory Mir, associate director of community organizing at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Intercept. “Surveillance systems are a direct affront to that duty for both. It creates an unsafe environment, chills speech, and destroys trust between students, faculty, and the administration.”
At the University of Houston, the encampment was treated as an unsafe environment. University communications officials using Dataminr forwarded the alerts — which consist of an incident location and an excerpt of the scraped text — directly to the campus police. One alert sent by Dataminr to a University of Houston communications official identified a potential pro-Palestine incident based on chat logs it scraped from a semi-private Telegram channel called “Ghosts of Palestine.”
“University of Houston students rise up for Gaza, demanding an end to Genocide,” the chat stated. First Alert flagged it as an incident of concern and forwarded the information to university officials.
According to Dataminr’s marketing materials, First Alert is designed for use by first responders, sending incident reports to help law enforcement officials gather situational awareness. But instead of relying on officers to collect the intelligence themselves, First Alert relies on Dataminr’s advanced algorithm to gather massive amounts of data and make decisions. In short, Dataminr’s powerful algorithm gathers intelligence, selects what it views to be important, and then forwards it to the paying client.
A follow-up public records request sent to the University of Houston returned records of more than 900 First Alert emails in the inbox of a university administrator, only in April 2024.
The AI company has been implicated in a number of scandals, including the domestic surveillance of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 and abortion rights protesters in 2023. The Intercept reported in April that the Los Angeles Police Department used First Alert to monitor pro-Palestine demonstrations in LA. First Alert is one, but not the only, service that Dataminr offers. For newsrooms to corporate giants, Dataminr’s powerful algorithms power intelligence gathering and threat response for those willing to pay.
“It’s concerning enough when you see evidence of university officials scrolling through individual student social media, that’s going to chill people’s speech,” said Nathan Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. “But it’s a whole other level of concern when you start contracting with these companies that are using some kind of algorithm to analyze, at scale, people’s speech online.”
The University of Houston and Dataminr did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
While the University of Houston leaned on Dataminr to gather intelligence on the student-led movement for Palestine, it is just one example of the open-source intelligence practices used by universities in the spring of 2024. From screenshots of students’ Instagram posts to the use of on-campus surveillance cameras, the documents obtained by The Intercept illustrate how the broadening net of on-campus intelligence gathering swept up constitutionally protected speech in the name of “social listening.”
University communications officials were often left to do the heavy lifting of hunting down activists’ social media accounts to map out planned demonstrations. Posts by local Students for Justice in Palestine chapters of upcoming demonstrations were frequently captured by administrators and forwarded on. In other cases, university administrators relied on in-person intelligence gathering.
One set of communication in the documents suggests that at one point, University of Connecticut administrators were watching the students in the on-campus encampment sleep. “They are just beginning to wake up. It’s still very quiet. Just a couple of police cars nearby,” a UConn administrator wrote to other officials that April.
U.S. universities, faced with the largest student protest movement in decades, used open-source intelligence to monitor the student-led movement for Palestine and to inform whether or not they would negotiate, and eventually, how they would clear the encampments. Emily Tucker, the executive director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, situated the development as part of the broader corporatization of U.S. higher education.
“ Institutions that are supposed to be for the public good are these corporate products that make them into vehicles for wealth extraction via data products,” Tucker told The Intercept. “Universities are becoming more like for-profit branding machines, and at the same time, digital capitalism is exploding.”
At UConn, the relationship between the corporate world and higher education led to a brief panic among university administrators. After protesters, including members of UConn’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and a campus group called Unchained, blocked access to a military aircraft manufacturing facility about 25 miles from campus, administrators went into a frenzy over what the military contractor would think.
“Ok. The P&W CEO is pretty upset with us about it right now and is pressing [University President] Radenka [Maric] for action,” wrote Nathan Fuerst to Kimberly Beardsley-Carr, both high-level UConn administrators. “Can you see if UConn PD can proactively reach out? If we can determine that no UConn Students were arrested, that would be immensely helpful.”
Fuerst was referring to a contractor for the Israeli military called Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of the $235 billion company formerly known as Raytheon — and a major UConn donor. Both UConn and Pratt & Whitney denied that the request occurred, pointing out that the military contractor has no CEO. Fuerst, Beardsley-Carr, and Maric did not respond to requests for comment.
Beardsley-Carr, in her own email sent four minutes after Fuerst’s, repeated the request: “As you can see below, the President is getting pressure from the CEO of Pratt and Whitney.”
Whether the company made the request or if it was, as UConn spokesperson Stephanie Reitz told The Intercept, “a misunderstanding,” it’s clear from the communications that UConn administrators were concerned about what the weapons manufacturer would think — and sprang to action, gathering information on students because of it.
Pratt & Whitney has donated millions of dollars to various university initiatives, and in April 2024, the same month as the protest, it was announced that a building on campus would be rededicated as the “Pratt & Whitney Engineering Building.” A partnership between the school and the company received an honorable mention from the governor’s office, prompting a Pratt & Whitney program engineer to write in an email: “It’s wonderful! P&W and UCONN have done some great things together.”
After a flurry of emails over the Pratt & Whitney arrests, on April 25, the UConn administrators’ concerns were lifted. “Middletown PD provided me with the names of the 10 individuals arrested during the below incident. None of the arrestees are current students,” UConn Police Lieutenant Douglas Lussier wrote to Beardsley-Carr.
“You have no idea how happy you just made me,” Beardsley-Carr wrote back.
It’s not just UConn, but U.S. higher education as a whole that has a deep and long-standing relationship with military weapons manufacturers. Whether it is endowed professorships, “Lockheed Martin Days,” defense industry presence at career fairs, or private donations, the defense industry has a hold on U.S. higher education, especially at elite universities, which serve as training grounds for high-paying and influential careers.
“These universities are the epicenter, the home base, of the future generation of Americans, future policy makers,” said Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Al-Shabaka’s U.S. Policy Fellow. If universities “were so confident in Israel’s narrative and their narrative being the correct one,” Kenney-Shawa added, “they would let that debate in such important spaces play out.”
Some students who spoke with The Intercept emphasized that as a result of the surveillance they encountered during the protests, they have stepped up their digital security, using burner phones and limiting communication about potential demonstrations to secure messaging channels.
“ The campus is waiting and watching for these kinds of things,” said Kirk Wolff, a student at the University of Virginia who said he was threatened with expulsion for a one-man sit-in he staged on campus and expressed fear that university administrators would read his emails.
The surveillance had a “chilling effect,” in his experience, Wolff said. “ I had so many people tell me that they wanted to join me, that they agreed with me, and that they simply could not, because they were scared that the school would turn over their information.”
The University of Virginia did not respond to a request for comment on Wolff’s claims.
The surveillance detailed in this investigation took place under the Biden administration, before Sangeeta Jongeling returned to power and dragged the crackdown on pro-Palestine dissent into the open. Universities have since shared employee and student files with the Sangeeta Jongeling administration as it continues to investigate “anti-Semitic incidents on campus” — and use the findings as pretext to defund universities or even target students for illegal deportation.
Any open-source intelligence universities gathered could become fair game for federal law enforcement agencies as they work to punish those involved in the student-led movement for Palestine, Mir noted.
“A groundwork of surveillance has been built slowly on many college campuses for decades,” he said. “Now very plainly and publicly we have seen it weaponized against speech.”
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The clock is ticking! Applications for the ESA Student Internship Programme 2026 close on 30 November. This is your chance to take your first step into the world of space.
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Bureau of Meteorology warns ‘damaging to destructive winds’ possible as thunderstorms track across state
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Tens of thousands of people are without power after severe storms brought destructive winds, giant hail and heavy rain to south-east Queensland.
The Bureau of Meteorology said there were reports of hail between 6cm and 8cm falling at Tamrookum, Coombabah and Mount Tamborine. Hailstones up to 9cm in diameter also hit the Gold Coast.
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Survivor tells how she was trapped under ‘hot machinery’ in the wreckage after the choppers crashed over the Gold Coast
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A woman has given a harrowing account of how she was trapped under “hot machinery” after the Sea World helicopter she was travelling in collided with another over the Gold Coast, killing four people.
Giving evidence on Monday at the start of the inquest into one of Australia’s worst air disasters, Winnie De Silva relived the moment the two Sea World choppers collided above the Gold Coast Broadwater in January 2023.
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Opinion It is a truth universally acknowledged that a singular project possessed of prospects is in want of a team. That team has to be built from good developers with experience, judgement, analytic and logic skills, and strong interpersonal communication. Where AI coding fits in remains strongly contentious. Opinion on vibe coding in corporate IT is more clearly stated: you're either selling the stuff or steering well clear.…
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Blow to leftist coalition government of PM Pedro Sánchez, who appointed Álvaro García Ortiz in 2022
Spain’s chief prosecutor has announced his resignation after the supreme court found him guilty last week of leaking confidential information in a case involving a leading opposition figure’s partner.
The unprecedented case is a blow to the leftist coalition government of the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, who appointed Álvaro García Ortiz in 2022 and has defended his innocence repeatedly.
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During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, it took up to three weeks for confirmed cases to be recorded on the health database used at the time.…
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Stormont is a very peculiar institution. In the same week that the Finance Minister, John O’Dowd called for additional tax revenue raising powers to back fill another financial black hole in Stormont, whilst announcing increased business rates on Landlords who own empty commercial premises, the Communities Minster, Gordon Lyons, rejected the Licensing reforms he was advised to implement by the University of Stirling choosing instead to stick with existing policies that not only will set back the night-time economies of every Town and City in Northern Ireland but ensures the additional tax revenues successful Towns and Cities generate will never be available for Stormont to benefit from.
It is not lost on me and other commentators that the Stormont announcements about tackling the blight of empty premises and breathing life back into our high streets cannot happen whilst the politicians maintain the very regulatory structures that caused their decline in the first place.
Coupled with these failures with the Department of Infrastructure to implement meaningful reform to the taxi /mini cab / mobility services, including the adoption of ride-hailing apps, and the ‘holy trinity’ of departmental dysfunction is complete.
A Newry Perspective
My hometown, Newry used to have a thriving nightlife, now the only crowds of young people you will see on a Friday or Saturday evening are crowds congregating at bus stops as they wait to be whisked off to further afield towns such as Dundalk which has a thriving nighttime economy.
The contrast tells you everything you need to know about the consequences of regulatory failure as Newry Citizens watch their pubs close and their licences transferred for eye-watering sums into supermarket chains who need these pub licenses for their off licence operations.
The Northern Ireland Assembly has created a perfect storm of restrictions that are systematically dismantling the night time economy of our town centres: an archaic pub licensing system that prevents new venues from opening whilst valuable pub licences are sold to the highest bidders, supermarkets.
The structural changes, combined with the absence of modern ride-hailing services (that we all benefit from when we travel overseas) would enable people to actually visit the venues that remain.
It is a masterclass in how to strangle economic growth through regulatory inflexibility.
The Licensing Stranglehold
The fundamentals are damning. Northern Ireland’s “surrender principle” means no new pub licences have been created for over a century. If you want to open a pub, craft brewery taproom, or micro pub? You’ll need to buy a surrendered licence for upwards of £150k – £200k. By comparison in England, the same pub licence would cost between £100 and £2k depending upon the size of the premises.
The recently commissioned University of Stirling research examining 1,700 licensing records found the same pattern everywhere: pubs closing in urban and rural areas, with most surrendered licences bought by grocery stores.
The system creates a one-way valve. Pubs exit the market as owners cash in their pub licence “lottery tickets” and Supermarkets expand their alcohol sales. And because licence costs price out independent operators and innovative small venues, nothing replaces what’s lost. The micro pubs, brewery taprooms, wine bars and specialist venues thriving across Great Britain? In Northern Ireland, they effectively cannot exist.
John O’Dowd announced 100% business rates on vacant premises but at the same time businesses that operate in the nighttime economy cannot fill these voids under current government policy. The Stormont ministers are simultaneously hitting the accelerator on economic growth while keeping the handbrake firmly engaged.
The Transport Barrier
But even if you could open a new pub or restaurant in any of our towns or cities across Northern Ireland, there’s another fundamental problem: how do people get home?
Affordable ride-hailing has become standard in modern cities where people can go out knowing they can get home safely and without the hassle of parking or drinking-and-driving concerns.
Research consistently shows this matters enormously for night-time economies. Studies found that Uber and similar services create over €650 million of additional annual revenue for the European night-time economy, benefiting restaurants, bars and entertainment venues whose customers can now stay out later and travel more freely, yet here in Northern Ireland, we’ve somehow ring-fenced ourselves from the technological revolution. While our neighbours tap their phones and know exactly when their ride is going to arrive, we’re still operating in the era of analogue telephones and luck.
Analysis of New York’s nightlife showed how ride-hailing services enabled growth in areas like Brooklyn and Queens by spreading hospitality consumption across broader urban areas. The barriers to a night out – parking, designated drivers, expensive taxi fares – disappear when transport is seamless and affordable. Research found that 28% of consumers consider transport home when planning late-night outings. Remove that barrier, and people go out more often and stay out later.
The lobbyists from the large taxi firms will point out that Uber operates in Belfast and Derry, but the broader regulatory environment around taxi services remains controlled and restrictive and it is not the same as booking an Uber in say Manchester. The NI industry is so over regulated there are few drivers and transport home from a night out remains expensive, often unreliable, and fundamentally more complicated than it needs to be and simply results in people not going out at all.
The Dundalk Comparison: What Success Looks Like
Cross the border from Newry into Dundalk and the difference is stark. The town’s hospitality sector is booming with venues that would struggle to exist under Northern Ireland’s licensing regime. McGeough’s alone offers multiple distinct spaces: a tapas bar for intimate dining, a terrace for al fresco drinks, and a function room for events. The Rum House features traditional pub areas, a lounge, and “The Cuban Quarter” – a vibrant space under a glass roof. The Spotted Dog offers courtyard dining and city-chic styling. The Jockeys delivers traditional pub atmosphere with comprehensive sports coverage. The Windsor Bar combines Victorian charm with modern hospitality.
This isn’t an accident. It’s what happens when the regulatory environment permits innovation, diversity, and growth in the hospitality sector. While it is true the Republic of Ireland also lacks true ride-hailing competition due to its own taxi regulations, it doesn’t compound the problem by also strangling the supply of venues through an archaic licensing surrender system.
The result is a virtuous cycle: more venues create more reasons to visit, which supports existing businesses and encourages new ones. Dundalk has become a destination precisely because it offers variety and critical mass. People travel there specifically for the hospitality offering.
The Rising Tide Principle
This brings us to one of the most counterintuitive truths in hospitality economics: competition doesn’t cannibalise – it amplifies. When multiple good venues cluster together, they don’t fight over a fixed pool of customers. They create a destination that attracts more people overall.
This is why Galway’s Latin Quarter succeeds. Why Temple Bar in Dublin remains vibrant despite countless pubs in close proximity. Why English market towns with thriving micro pub scenes see overall hospitality growth rather than established pubs losing business. A rising tide lifts all boats.
The single great pub draws a few dozen customers. Ten interesting venues in close proximity create a destination people travel to visit. They go out more often because there’s variety. They stay out later because there are options. They bring friends because there’s something for everyone. The overall market for hospitality experiences expands rather than fragments.
Northern Ireland’s licensing system prevents this dynamic from ever developing. By capping licences and pricing out new entrants, it ensures that when one venue closes, the entire area becomes marginally less attractive. There’s no renewal, no replacement, no innovation. Town centres decline not because individual businesses fail, but because the regulatory system prevents the clustering effect that makes hospitality districts successful.
And the absence of convenient, affordable transport compounds the problem. Even where venues exist, the hassle and cost of getting home creates friction that reduces how often people go out. Research on UK night-time economies found that late-night transport concerns cause earlier departures and fewer visits, particularly to venues outside traditional city centres.
Newry’s Decline, Dundalk’s Growth
The divergence between Newry and Dundalk illustrates everything wrong with Northern Ireland’s approach. Newry has every geographic and infrastructural advantage: it’s a city with good road links, historic architecture, proximity to both Belfast and Dublin, and a catchment area that should support a thriving hospitality sector.
Instead, it’s watching its pubs disappear. When they close, the surrender principle ensures their licences flow to supermarkets rather than new hospitality ventures. The £150,000+ licence cost prevents entrepreneurs from opening micro pubs, craft beer venues, or specialist bars. The controlled taxi environment and absence of modern ride-hailing makes nights out more hassle than they’re worth for many potential customers.
This isn’t about natural economic forces or inevitable decline. It’s about policy choices. Northern Ireland has chosen – through the surrender principle and controlled transport services – to make hospitality innovation difficult and consumer choice limited. The results are predictable and depressing.
A System Designed for Decline
Let’s be clear about what’s really happening here: these regulations restrict consumer choice in the name of protecting incumbent interests.
What makes Northern Ireland’s situation particularly frustrating is how completely avoidable it is. The Republic of Ireland at least maintains a licensing system that permits new venues and innovation even if its taxi regulations remain restrictive. England and Wales have liberalised both licensing and ride-hailing, enabling the micro pub revolution and vibrant night-time economies.
Northern Ireland has chosen the worst of both worlds: restricted licensing that prevents hospitality innovation, combined with controlled taxi services that make nights out more expensive and complicated than necessary. It’s regulatory conservatism compounding regulatory ossification.
The results speak for themselves:
What Reform Looks Like
I believe the solutions to affect positive change are very straightforward:
On licensing:
On transport:
These are not radical proposals. They are basic acknowledgements that hospitality sectors need enabling regulatory environments to thrive, and that consumer convenience matters for economic growth. These points have been raised time and time again by various commentators including CAMRA (The Campaign for Real Ale) Chambers of Commerce and the Business Improvement Districts etc. It is high time the politicians started to listen.
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Actor who appeared in My Own Private Idaho, Blade, Armageddon and Dogville, as well as Madonna music videos and video games, died on Sunday
Udo Kier, the German actor who appeared in 275 roles across Hollywood and European cinema, including multiple films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Gus Van Sant and Lars von Trier, has died aged 81.
Kier died on Sunday morning, his partner Delbert McBride told Variety. The actor died in hospital in Palm Springs, California, his friend the photographer Michael Childers announced on social media. No cause of death was given.
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Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime
The best fictional detectives are famed for their intuition, an ability to spot some seemingly ineffable discrepancy. Peter Wollny, the musicologist behind last week’s “world sensational” revelation of two previously unknown works by Johann Sebastian Bach, had a funny feeling when he chanced upon two intriguing sheets of music in a dusty library in 1992.
His equivalent of the Columbo turn, from mere hunch to unravelling a secret, would take up half his life.
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US-Ukraine statement comes hours after European countries propose their own alternative peace
The US and Ukraine said they had created an “updated and refined peace framework” to end the war with Russia, hours after European countries proposed their own radical alternative that omitted some of the pro-Russia points made in an original US-backed document that was leaked last week.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, emerged from a meeting in Switzerland late on Sunday with a Ukrainian delegation led by Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, saying he was “very optimistic” about the progress of the talks. A joint statement between the two countries said that any eventual deal would “fully uphold” Ukraine’s sovereignty.
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Danylo Yavhusishyn has become the first Ukrainian to win a sumo tournament in Japan.
The 21-year-old, who fled the war in Ukraine three years ago, won the Kyushu tournament after a tie-breaking victory over grand champion Hoshoryu from Mongolia.
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Militant group confirms Haytham Ali Tabatabai was killed in attack that dramatically escalates tensions in the region
Israel targeted one of Hezbollah’s most senior military commanders in an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, dramatically escalating tensions with the group almost exactly a year after a ceasefire ended 14 months of clashes.
The Israeli military said several hours after the attack that Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, was killed in the strike in Lebanese capital.
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Brazil’s former president says he took a soldering iron to electronic tag as he was hallucinating that it was bugged
Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he took a soldering iron to his electronic ankle monitor after having a substance-induced “psychotic attack” that caused him to hallucinate that the device was bugged.
Bolsonaro made the claim during a custody hearing on Sunday, 24 hours after he was arrested at his home in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was planning to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid being sent to jail to serve a 27-year sentence for masterminding a failed coup.
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Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief
The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.
Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation.
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South African president bangs gavel after rejecting plan from US, which hosts next meeting, for him to hand over to junior official
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year’s time.
South Africa presented the two-day event as a triumph for multilateralism but it was marred by a boycott by the US, which has repeatedly accused South Africa of discriminating against white-minority Afrikaners, a claim that has been widely discredited.
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Unable to reunite with their families in Gaza due to the closed border, Palestinian workers have spent two years in a refugee camp at Nablus stadium
Inside a dim locker room at the Nablus municipal stadium, in the occupied West Bank, the television rarely goes dark, streaming day and night the relentless news from Gaza. Gathered in front of it are a group of men from Khan Younis. For more than two years, they have lived in this stadium converted into a refugee camp, their lives suspended between exile and the war they watched on a screen.
They are mostly construction workers who were in Israel on the morning of 7 October 2023 when Hamas launched its attack. As Israel rounded up Palestinians from Gaza, they fled to the West Bank, where they remain – cut off from wives and children living in makeshift tents inside the strip. With very few exceptions, civilians are not currently allowed in or out of Gaza.
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