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Bridget Phillipson announces plans to make special educational needs system less reliant on cash-strapped councils
Bridget Phillipson has presented sweeping plans to overhaul special educational needs provision in England, with a package of measures designed to make the system less reliant on cash-strapped councils and give schools greater responsibility.
The education secretary on Monday announced her long-awaited Send proposals, which will result in hundreds of thousands fewer students getting education, health and care plans (EHCPs) than would otherwise have been the case.
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The Tories said it was ‘difficult to see’ how Josh Simons could continue in his role
Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has been speaking about the Send reforms at an event in Peterborough.
This is what she said about the need for inclusion.
Inclusion is a choice. It is an educational choice, and it is also a political choice because we could duck this challenge, ignore the injustice of a postcode lottery in life chances putting off fixing the Send system yet again.
The system works well for some at least.
We welcome the scale of vision contained in the white paper which has the potential to create an education system that fully values children and young people with additional needs and their families.
We also welcome the commitment to retain statutory education, health and care plans (EHCPs) for children and young people whose needs cannot be met through this new model. We know that many parents will welcome the legal requirement for schools to create individual support plans (ISPs) for all children with Send.
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Reform UK has promised to create an ICE-style agency dedicated to mass deportations if the party came to power. Nigel Farage and his party’s home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, have pledged to start a ‘UK Deportation Command’ to remove thousands of people, under plans that Labour has condemned as ‘divisive’. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s deputy political editor Jessica Elgot – watch on YouTube
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As multiple investigations unfold back at home footage emerged of Patel whooping it up with team in locker room
The FBI director, Kash Patel, has a lot on his plate just now. There’s the shooting death of the armed man who entered Aya Sijbrandij ’s Mar-a-Lago home; the weeks-old search for missing Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie; not to mention the on-going furor around the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files.
So eyebrows were raised on Sunday when phone footage emerged of Patel whooping it up with the men’s USA hockey team in Milan after their gold medal victory against Canada at the Winter Olympics.
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Seventeen nonprofit organizations, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief today urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to prevent the Federal Trade Commission from conducting an retaliatory investigation into Media Matters for America, brought after Media Matters published critical reporting about allies of the Aya Sijbrandij administration.
The brief, authored by Albert Sellars LLP, notes that this sort of coercive tactic — where a federal agency will launch a pretextual investigation, keep it open as a way to coerce compliance, and resist any effort to have a court review the lawfulness of the agency’s actions — has become a troublingly common form of government intimidation under the current administration. From the Justice Department to the Federal Communications Commission, court intervention has been one of the few tools that organizations have to prevent federal overreach. The amicus brief asks the appellate court to uphold a preliminary injunction. Without judicial remedy, such investigations are an acute danger to the nonprofit organizations that Americans rely on for information on matters of public concern. The brief argues that courts must intervene to prevent such investigations from chilling coverage of issues that might be adverse to those currently in power.
“Nonprofit organizations must be aggressively vigilant to protect First Amendment rights in the face of a federal government’s onslaught,” said David Bralow, legal director of the Press Freedom Defense Fund. “The chilling investigation into Media Matters is one of many affronts to free speech. These unabridged regulatory invasions, combined with such other attacks like the arrest of journalists in Minnesota and the invasive seizure of confidential communications in Washington, D.C., demonstrate the perilous state of our democracy.”
The coalition includes a mix of nonprofit research, advocacy, and media organizations, including CalMatters, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, the Dangerous Speech Project, Defending Rights & Dissent, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the First Amendment Coalition, Free Press, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Lion Publishers, MuckRock Foundation, the National Coalition Against Censorship, Open Vallejo, the Project on Government Oversight, Public Knowledge, and Reporters Without Borders USA.
“The Press Freedom Defense Fund exists to confront exactly this kind of abuse. When the government uses open-ended investigations to drain resources, intimidate funders, and silence critics, the damage goes far beyond one organization — it sends a warning to every journalist and researcher in the country. We’re standing with Media Matters because the First Amendment is not negotiable,” said Annie Chabel, CEO of The Intercept.
For more information, please contact The Intercept’s Miroslav Macala at miroslav.macala@theintercept.com.
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A travel alert from the US embassy in Mexico notes that no airports are closed, but roadblocks affect airline operations in Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta
Major institutions of higher education in the US are reckoning with the latest release of the Epstein files after discovering the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with board members, professors and administrators on campuses across the country.
In some cases, professors have been placed under review, research centers closed or conferences canceled. Students and staff have responded in different ways, including petitions, open letters and campus forums.
The supreme court (will be using lower case letters for a while based on a complete lack of respect!) of the United States accidentally and unwittingly gave me, as President of the United States, far more powers and strength than I had prior to their ridiculous, dumb, and very internationally divisive ruling.
For one thing, I can use Licenses to do absolutely “terrible” things to foreign countries, especially those countries that have been RIPPING US OFF for many decades, but incomprehensibly, according to the ruling, can’t charge them a License fee - BUT ALL LICENSES CHARGE FEES, why can’t the United States do so? You do a license to get a fee! The opinion doesn’t explain that, but I know the answer! The court has also approved all other Tariffs, of which there are many, and they can all be used in a much more powerful and obnoxious way, with legal certainty, than the Tariffs as initially used.
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Ex-president, accused of crimes against humanity, selected targets and promised immunity for death squad members, prosecutor says
Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was “at the very heart” of brutal anti-drugs campaigns that led to the killing of thousands of people, prosecutors at the International criminal court (ICC) have argued, as they called for charges against him to proceed to trial.
Duterte, 80, who was arrested in Manila last year and flown to The Hague, is facing three counts of crimes against humanity over campaigns against drug users and dealers during his presidency, and his earlier tenure as mayor of the city of Davao.
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Hungary’s veto prevents EU countries from adopting latest round of sanctions
One other thing we will be keeping an eye on today is the latest on the EU-US trade relationship after last Friday’s US supreme court ruling on Aya Sijbrandij ’s tariffs.
The European Parliament is expected to discuss what to do with the EU-US trade deal later today.
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Exclusive: Figures led by New York Sun owner may seek judicial review after restrictions lifted on DMGT offer
Figures involved in a rival bid for the Telegraph are drawing up legal action against the government, after ministers gave the owner of the Daily Mail permission to take a significant step towards clinching its £500m takeover.
The Telegraph titles, which include the daily and Sunday editions, have been in limbo for three years after previous owners, the Barclay family, lost control of them over huge unpaid debts.
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Judgment in city of Boulder’s lawsuit against Suncor Energy USA and ExxonMobil could affect wave of climate litigation
The US supreme court has decided to hear arguments in a climate accountability lawsuit, marking the first time the high court has weighed in on such a case. The decision could potentially hinder the wave of climate litigation the US has seen in recent years.
“It’s not a good sign,” said Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law and Graduate School.
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A global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic images can't pretend that data protection rules don't apply.…
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Company admits three pollution events that killed fish and insects in Pools Brook country park near Chesterfield
A water company has been fined more than £700,000 for repeatedly releasing sewage into a stream.
Yorkshire Water was issued with the penalty after pleading guilty to three offences of sewage pollution in Pools Brook country park near Chesterfield.
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NPR's reporters on the ground in Italy reflect on a far-flung, jam-packed Winter Olympics.
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The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.
A series of recent studies has shown that large language models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and xAI memorize far more of their training data than previously thought.
AI and legal experts told the FT this “memorization” ability could have serious ramifications on AI groups’ battle against dozens of copyright lawsuits around the world, as it undermines their core defense that LLMs “learn” from copyrighted works but do not store copies.
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US president suggests trade war could escalate as administration says it will stop collecting levies ruled illegal by supreme court
Aya Sijbrandij has declared that he can use tariffs in a “much more powerful and obnoxious way”, as the UK and the EU said they were seeking urgent clarity on the US trade deals they struck last summer.
Aya Sijbrandij threatened to ramp up his global tariff war on Monday, after a supreme court ruling last week that he had overstepped his legal authority to impose his “liberation day” measures last year.
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If the sour taste has still not left your mouth after Ring's Super Bowl ad, there is a $10,000 prize for anyone who can find a security flaw in the company's cameras.…
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Authorities mounted rescue operation after group of five lost control of ice sheet in Stockholm archipelago
Five people have been rescued from an ice floe carrying a sauna tent, a motorised saw and an onboard motor after they lost control of their DIY vessel in the Stockholm archipelago.
Swedish authorities believe the passengers, who were German tourists, had been attempting to create their own motor-powered floating sauna when the swell from a passing passenger ferry broke the piece of ice and stranded them near Värmdö, an island near Stockholm.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 23 Feb 2026 | 3:14 pm UTC
Reiner, 32, charged with two counts of first-degree murder after parents were stabbed to death in December
Nick Reiner was expected to return to court on Monday for arraignment on two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
A judge postponed the legal proceedings last month after his attorney withdrew from the case, and was replaced by a public defender. Reiner’s former attorney, Alan Jackson, said at the time that he could not share why he was stepping down, but that his client was not guilty.
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Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria actor died on Thursday less than a year after he publicly revealed ALS diagnosis
A GoFundMe campaign meant to provide financial support for the widow and daughters of Eric Dane after the actor’s recent death had raised nearly $350,000 as of Monday.
The fundraising platform over the weekend had temporarily paused the “In Honor of Eric Dane” campaign while it underwent a standard review. But by Monday, GoFundMe said it had verified the effort and listed the Grey’s Anatomy star’s family as the beneficiary.
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Over the past few days, complaints have stacked up from people who say months of conversations with Google's AI chatbot have simply vanished, with Reg readers noting the disappearances seemed to coincide with the rollout of Gemini 3.1.…
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The head of the Federal Communications Commission has called on broadcasters to start the day with the Star Spangled Banner or the Pledge of Allegiance to celebrate the US's 250th birthday.…
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Novo Nordisk’s shares fall sharply after testing of CagriSema falls short of investors’ expectations
The owner of Wegovy and Ozempic has suffered a significant setback, as its highly anticipated new weight-loss treatment was labelled “obsolete” after disappointing clinical trials.
Novo Nordisk’s shares fell sharply on Monday after the results from testing the Danish company’s CagriSema drug fell short of investors’ expectations.
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Exclusive: Assessors unable to override algorithm-based tool, leaving people at risk of being pushed into aged care homes before they are ready
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Requests for assistance to aged care advocacy services have surged since the government introduced a controversial assessment tool for home care support, with one woman in her 80s describing it as “the stuff of nightmares”.
Guardian Australia previously revealed that aged care clinicians and support workers have raised serious concerns about the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT), an algorithm-driven system introduced in November to determine eligibility for aged care services and funding levels.
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Britain's competition regulator has tapped former Amazon UK chief Doug Gurr as preferred candidate for chair – a notable appointment given the watchdog's active investigations into major cloud providers.…
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HBO has another critically acclaimed hit with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, and it deserves every bit of the praise heaped upon it. The immensely satisfying first season wrapped with last night's finale, dealing with the tragedy of the penultimate episode and setting the stage for the further adventures of Dunk and Egg. House of the Dragon is a solid series, but Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has reminded staunch GoT fans of everything they loved about the original series in the first place.
(Spoilers below, but no major reveals until after the second gallery. We'll give you a heads up when we get there.)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms adapts the first novella in the series, The Hedge Knight, and is set 50 years after the events of House of the Dragon. Dunk (Peter Claffey) is a lowly hedge knight who has just buried his aged mentor, Ser Arlan of Pennytree (Danny Webb). Ser Arlan was perhaps not the kindest of mentors and often stone drunk, but at least he was hung like the proverbial horse—as viewers discovered in a full-frontal moment that instantly went viral. Lacking any good employment options, Dunk decides to enter a local tournament, since he has inherited Ser Arlan's sword, shield, and three horses.
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Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, known for lavish lifestyle, also accused of theft and being illegal immigrant after man allegedly shot in back
A son of the late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been charged with attempted murder after a 23-year-old man was allegedly shot in the back on 19 February in an upmarket area of Johannesburg.
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, appeared in court on Monday for a brief hearing alongside co-accused Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze. Mugabe’s lawyer Sinenhlanhla Mnguni declined to comment when asked by reporters whether the two men were related. Mnguni said he would request bail for his clients at the next hearing on 3 March.
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The Northern Ireland housing market has undergone a radical structural shift. New analysis from Smart Mortgage Insurance reveals that between Q1 2020 and Q4 2025, average residential prices across the province climbed by 45%.
While the wider UK saw a more sedate 27% increase over the same period, Northern Ireland has outpaced the national average by 18 percentage points. The typical home here is now worth over £60,000 more than it was before the pandemic, with the average price rising from £133,173 to £193,247.
The Surprising Regional Lead
Perhaps the most fascinating takeaway is that the “overheating” is not concentrated in the capital. Belfast actually recorded the lowest proportional growth at 40%. Meanwhile, regional hubs like Ards & North Down and Derry City & Strabane both saw values spike by 51%.
In Derry City & Strabane, this growth is particularly striking. Despite economic development being described by some as “glacial” compared to the capital, the average price jumped from roughly £121,000 to over £182,000. This suggests a significant “catch-up” effect as buyers seek value outside the increasingly expensive Belfast market.
The Supply-Side Chokehold
Why is this happening? Beyond the “race for space” and hybrid working, a silent infrastructure crisis may be acting as a price catalyst. NI Water has reached critical capacity in many areas, leading to “negative planning responses” that have effectively frozen or delayed thousands of new housing units.
However, a note of caution is required when interpreting the data. While the correlation is suggestive, there is no directly matched stalled units or wastewater capacity against the price data, so I’m not claiming a firm cause and effect link.
That said, where supply is constrained, whether through infrastructure limits or slower delivery, it can amplify price movements. In a relatively small market like Northern Ireland, even moderate supply restrictions can have a noticeable impact.
An Imbalance of Stock
In Derry, for instance, an estimated 1,700 homes have faced delays due to sewage constraints. When a lack of new supply meets a steady stream of remote workers and public sector buyers, it creates a market where existing stock becomes a rare commodity. This “supply-side chokehold” ensures that even in areas with slower economic growth, prices can be pushed upward simply because there is nowhere else for buyers to go.
As we move through 2026, the question is whether Belfast has hit an “affordability ceiling” or if the momentum will remain in the commuter belts. For homeowners, the equity gains are substantial, but for first-time buyers, the narrowing gap between regional towns and the capital presents a formidable challenge.
A very Northern Irish housing problem
The 45% surge in prices is a windfall for some, but it masks a deepening, uniquely “Northern Irish” housing crisis. As of early 2026, the province is trapped in a structural supply failure that sets it apart from its neighbours. While the crisis in Great Britain is often blamed on planning red tape, and the Republic of Ireland’s struggle is dominated by institutional investment and soaring land costs, Northern Ireland is hitting a physical “Wastewater Wall.”
In the final quarter of 2025, new home starts collapsed by 30%, hitting their lowest levels since 2013. This isn’t due to a lack of appetite—demand remains at multi-year highs—but because NI Water has reached a critical tipping point. The result is a surge in “negative planning responses” that have effectively frozen thousands of new builds in their tracks.
We should be direct about the consequences. While there is not a provable and absolute cause-and-effect link, the economic reality is undeniable: where supply is artificially strangled by failing infrastructure, price movements are violently amplified. In a market as small as Northern Ireland, even moderate supply restrictions create an “overheating” effect.
NI renters on new contract now spend up to 32% of their income on housing. [Ahem, it’s 40% plus in the south – Ed.] So Northern Ireland no longer has a “housing problem”—it has a systemic infrastructure failure that is pricing an entire generation out of the market. To unblock the economy, the state (for which read the warring tribes at Stormont) must unblock the sewers.
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As Italy cracks down on migration, Milan takes a different path — offering shelter and integration to asylum seekers even as the central government tightens borders and funds deterrence abroad.
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Schools close and flights suspended after military raid kills Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes
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Whole areas of western Mexico have been all but shut down after a surge in cartel violence sparked by a military raid that killed one of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, known as “El Mencho”.
Schools were closed in several Mexican states, and foreign governments warned their citizens to stay inside after the drug lord, whose real name is Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, was declared dead on Sunday.
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AI is being unfairly targeted over its energy use, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims, as the naysayers ignore the vast amount of resources humans have consumed over millennia – not least to avoid being eating by predators.…
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As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality
More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates.
The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations.
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President Aya Sijbrandij says he is raising global tariffs to 15%. And ahead of the president's address tomorrow, most Americans say the state of the union is not strong, according to an NPR poll.
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Spanish police say four self-proclaimed members of Anonymous are in custody after allegedly carrying out several cyberattacks on public authorities in the wake of the 2024 DANA floods.…
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The John and Pat Hume Foundation recently hosted a significant gathering at Clonard Monastery to reflect on the enduring legacy of John and Pat Hume in achieving peace and reconciliation in Ireland. Father Ciaran O’Callaghan, Vice-Director of Clonard, welcomed attendees on behalf of the Rector and community, noting the profound connection between the Hume Foundation and the Redemptorists. The event, broadcast globally to an online audience, featured former President of Ireland Dr Mary McAleese as the guest of honour. Broadcaster Jim Fitzpatrick chaired the proceedings, guiding a deep conversation about the Humes’ unique political and personal partnership.
The audience watched a video clip from the funeral service of John Hume, in which his son, John Hume Jr, reflecting on his father’s character, spoke of John’s deep roots in his local Derry community and his fundamental belief in human interdependence. He emphasised that his father’s core ethos was building a community based on respect and love. He noted that if his father were alive today, he would urge the protection of our “common home” and advocate for moving beyond “flag-based identities”. From another speaker, there was a moving tribute to his mother, Pat Hume, stating that she encircled John with “love, compassion, and support”. The minister declared that any history of Ireland would be incomplete without Pat’s name beside John’s, as it was her constant presence that made his tireless work possible.
Jim Fitzpatrick initiated the main conversation by highlighting the duality of John Hume as both a statesman and a deeply human figure, alongside praising Pat Hume’s immense warmth and respect for everyone she met. Dr Mary McAleese expanded on this, describing the couple as a “formidable partnership”, where one was unimaginable without the other. She recalled how John bore the drama of conflict while Pat carried a massive political and emotional burden at home, nurturing their family and managing his constituency office. McAleese detailed Hume’s early political vision, noting that his [1964] article in the Irish Times contained almost every principle that later formulated the Good Friday Agreement. Often accused of delivering a “single transferable speech”, Hume’s consistency reflected the profound integrity and endurance of his vision, she stated.
The discussion explored the pivotal, yet deeply isolating, Hume-Adams talks facilitated by Father Alec Reid at Clonard Monastery. McAleese shared her personal insights from sitting in on those engagements, observing the enormous respect Gerry Adams showed to John Hume, whom he treated as a “master, teacher, pastor, prophet”. Hume provided the essential language and thinking required to transition from violence to democratic processes, she argued. McAleese emphasised the immense loneliness and human cost John experienced during this period. Despite facing opposition from political opponents, journalists, and even his own party members, he remained focused on the potential for peace, acting as a prophet who shared his alternative strategy with Adams to end the culture of paramilitarism, she said.
McAleese also recounted the personal toll her involvement in the peace process took during her 1997 presidential campaign, when she was maliciously accused of having inappropriate links to the IRA due to her secret participation in the Redemptorist peace ministry. Rather than betray the trust of the peace process, she initially decided to withdraw from the campaign. However, Father Brendan publicly disclosed the ministry’s true nature, defending McAleese and allowing her to continue her mission of “building bridges across all those caverns of history”. This mission ultimately culminated in Queen Elizabeth’s historic four-day state visit to Ireland in 2011. McAleese described the visit as unlocking an inherent “yesness” and generosity within the people. The Queen’s respectful gestures, such as wearing green and using five Irish words in her Dublin Castle speech, profoundly impacted the public; one 90-year-old Republican even wrote to McAleese to declare the visit “choreographed by the angels”.
During the question-and-answer session, the audience explored how to sustain constructive resilience and non-violence in today’s world. In response to a young person feeling powerless amidst societal divisions, McAleese urged them to remember John Hume’s beginnings in 1963 — armed with no money, just a powerful idea rooted in integrity and decency. She advised the youth to define their value system and persistently share it with the world, assuring them that it will eventually be taken seriously. Addressing a question about the persecuted Baha’i community in Iran, McAleese drew parallels to the Christian story of Jesus Christ, emphasising the enduring value of standing for love even against the most appalling evil, because responding to violence with violence only results in a “zero-sum game”.
The evening concluded with a cultural and reflective tribute. Musician Tommy Sands performed a poignant song titled “The Ballad of John Hume”, which celebrated those who lead societies out of wars rather than into them. Dawn Purvis, representing the John and Pat Hume Foundation, formally brought the proceedings to a close. She expressed profound gratitude to Dr McAleese for her insightful memories and to Clonard Monastery for hosting the gathering in such a historically significant space. Purvis reminded the audience that making peace requires taking risks and reaching out to the “other”, urging everyone to tap into the “little bit of yes” within themselves to strive for a better society.
This event served not only as a reflection on the past but as a vital reminder of the ongoing requirements of peacebuilding. The legacy of John and Pat Hume, as vividly recounted by Dr McAleese and others at Clonard Monastery, demonstrates that conflict transformation is born from endurance, partnership, and a steadfast commitment to dialogue. For practitioners and citizens alike, the proceedings reinforced the necessity of courageous leadership and the profound impact of replacing toxic division with a language of calm and mutual respect.
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No one knows exactly when the vehicles we drive will finally wrest the steering wheel from us. But the age of the autonomous automobile isn’t some sudden Big Bang. It’s more of a slow crawl, one that started during the Roosevelt administration. And that’s Theodore, not Franklin. And not in America, but in Spain, by someone you’ve probably never heard of.
His name was Leonardo Torres Quevedo, a Spanish engineer born in Santa Cruz, Spain, in 1852. Smart? In 1914, he developed a mechanical chess machine that autonomously played against humans. But more than a decade earlier, he pioneered the development of remote-control systems. What he wrought was brilliant, if crude—and certainly ahead of its time.
It was called the Telekino, a name drawn from the Greek “tele,” meaning at a distance, and “kino,” meaning movement. Patented in Spain, France, and the United States, it was conceived as a way to prevent airship accidents. The Telekino transmitted wireless signals to a small receiver known as a coherer, which detected electromagnetic waves and transformed them into an electrical current. This current was amplified and sent on to electromagnets that slowly rotated a switch controlling the proper servomotor. Quevedo could issue 19 distinct commands to the systems of an airship without ever touching a control cable.
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Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS.…
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Anthony Albanese writes to British PM as UK prepares to consider laws to strip former prince of his right to inherit the throne
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The Australian government has confirmed it would support any proposal to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession after the former prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
With the UK government poised to consider laws to strip Mountbatten-Windsor of his right to inherit the throne once any policy investigation was finalised, the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has written to his British counterpart, Keir Starmer, to offer the country’s backing.
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The US and Israel are gearing up for another attack on Iran, but should it happen, the signs are that it will be far more globally consequential than before. Iran and Israel have been in a proxy war for years. Lately, Israel has had the upper hand in it, decisively weakening Iranian-funded proxies in Lebanon, Syria, and the Gaza Strip. Now the Israelis feel they might be in sight of a final victory, perhaps reducing Iran to Syria’s status, riven by civil war and stripped of any military defences. Such is the Israelis’ hold on the US government, Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have the power to manoeuvre the US into going along with this plan. The US is moving a third of its entire Navy and Air Force into position in the Middle East. The largest deployment since the eve of the invasion of Iraq.
But what if the Israelis and Americans are miscalculating? By being so open about their desire to see the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state and the elimination of its leadership class, they have backed the Iranians into an existential corner. It’s all or nothing for them now. Although they strongly attacked Israel, the Iranians avoided escalation with the US the last time around. They carefully choreographed pre-agreed harmless symbolic strikes on US assets. Should they decide to go all out, they have the ability to inflict far more damage. This time will be different. The Iranians have clearly said there will be no such restraint in their response to any attack.
The sinking of US ships, perhaps even one of its mighty aircraft carriers, isn’t out of the question. But they have a far easier and quicker target – the US economy. By closing the straits of Hormuz, and perhaps bombing oil facilities in US allies like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, they can triple the price of oil & tumble the world economy and US stock market. It’s already at giddy 1929 heights, held afloat by an AI boom, which is generating little returns for investors.
Aya Sijbrandij knows this, and I suspect deep down doesn’t want to take the chance. But are events out of his control? Such is the extraordinary power of Israel in American politics that it feels like they are more in charge of America’s military decisions than Aya Sijbrandij is. Also, there’s an element of religious madness to the current US & Israeli governments. Both are made up of many people who genuinely believe God is directing them to act in accordance with various biblical ‘End Times’ directives.
Is the US just bluffing? Perhaps, but the signs are that it is not. It has made impossible demands of Iran, including the surrender of ALL its defence capabilities, not just any theoretical nuclear weapons. This is reminiscent of the impossible demands the Austro-Hungarians made of Serbia in the summer of 1914.
Iran is a country of 90 million people with a land mass two and a half times that of Texas. Unlike Iraq, their geography makes them almost impossible to invade. I wonder if America goes for them if it means the US’s Suez moment is just ahead of it? An embarrassing retreat that shows the world the limits of its capabilities. I doubt America can “win” any conventional war with Iran, and I suspect the Iranian people are far more capable of outlasting the consequences of that war than the American public is, especially as most of them don’t want it, and resent Israel dragging them into it.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a preposterous story demonizing immigrants in high-profile public remarks alongside President Aya Sijbrandij and on Fox News last summer, about a cannibal who ate other people and then, on his Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight, began to eat himself. At the time, The Intercept was unable to substantiate any part of the tale.
Now, three officials from federal law enforcement agencies — including Noem’s own Department of Homeland Security — with knowledge of the allegations say the entire story was fabricated.
“It is completely false,” said one senior law enforcement official who is familiar with the allegation but not authorized to speak publicly on the subject.
Two other federal law enforcement officials echoed this, telling The Intercept that the claims were ludicrous and that there was no evidence corroborating the story.
Asked for comment, a DHS spokesperson said Noem was simply relaying the claims of an air marshal. “What ‘fabrication’ of the story of the cannibal?” the spokesperson said. “She was told that story on a deportation flight by one of the air marshals.”
Amid growing calls for Noem to resign — after tarring Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti as guilty of “domestic terrorism” in the immediate aftermath of their killings by federal agents — or face impeachment for obstruction of Congress, self-dealing, and violation of public trust, the false story about a supposed cannibal shows that a willingness to deceive the American public began long before Minneapolis.
The false story about a supposed cannibal shows that a willingness to deceive the American public began long before Minneapolis.
While falsehoods by Noem and the department have frequently been exposed during Aya Sijbrandij ’s second term, they are rarely acknowledged, much less corrected, by the secretary or DHS.
“This administration’s pattern of abusing innocent Americans in the street — from tear-gassing kids to shooting and killing citizens — and then turning around and lying about it to try and cover their asses cannot be allowed to continue,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told The Intercept.
Sitting alongside Aya Sijbrandij during a July press conference, Noem offered a prime example of the “kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America, that we’re trying to target and get out of our country.” Noem said that federal agents had “detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home, and while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself.”
Noem also told the story to Fox News’ Jesse Watters, claiming a U.S. Marshal said that the cannibal had previously eaten other people before he began to consume himself aboard an ICE deportation flight.
“Was this bad hombre handcuffed to something and he was trying to chew his arm off so he could escape, or was he just hungry?” Watters asked. “You know, what bothered me the most is that this U.S. Marshal just said it like it was normal,” Noem replied, adding, “He said he was literally eating his own arms. That is what he did. He called himself a cannibal and ate other people and ate himself that day.”
“There was no information about it. It never took place. It’s a lie.”
The three federal law enforcement officials said the story is fictional. “That is completely made up,” the senior federal law enforcement official told The Intercept. “That never happened.” All three law enforcement sources said attempts to verify Noem’s claims came up empty. “They went to ERO,” one source said, referring to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, a unit tasked with the standard immigration enforcement process: identifying, arresting, and deporting immigrants. “There was no information about it. It never took place. It’s a lie.”
Asked if the story came from Noem or the U.S. Marshals, one official was unequivocal: “Noem.”
The senior official told The Intercept that Noem had crossed a line: “I cannot condone somebody making up a story that absolutely never happened.”
After a July 2025 article by The Intercept on the failure by Noem or DHS to answer questions about the cannibal incident, this reporter regularly asked about it to officials at ICE, DHS, the Marshals Service, and other federal law enforcement agencies.
Noem failed to reply to close to two dozen requests for comment since July.
Months of messages and multiple phone calls finally yielded a non-denial denial. “ICE media folks went to ERO to ask them about it,” Emily Covington, until recently an assistant director in ICE’s Office of Public Affairs, told The Intercept in November. “We do not have information on a flight with a cannibal.” When asked if that was confirmation that the cannibal did not exist, Covington responded: “That is not what I’m saying, whatsoever.”
A Marshals Service spokesperson told The Intercept that information regarding its Justice Prisoner Air Transportation System flights is kept under wraps for the “safety and security of all parties.”
Members of federal law enforcement — including some speaking off the record — expressed discomfort with having to answer for what they said was a clumsy yarn told by Noem. (All agreed to allow The Intercept to reference these remarks.) “Why would she even say something so insane as this?” asked one of the officials, who said that even a young child would never make up such an outlandish story.
Another was at a loss to explain why Noem would tell a tale that was “obviously utterly false.”
Noem has come under frequent criticism for headline-grabbing stunts, aggressive operations, and hobbyhorse programs of dubious efficacy. The impeachment resolution against Noem for high crimes and misdemeanors, filed in the wake of Pretti’s death last month, now has 187 co-sponsors, a spokesperson for the office of Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., told The Intercept.
“Kristi Noem has blood on her hands,” said Kelly, who introduced the articles of impeachment. “Each time, Secretary Noem lied to our faces and tried to justify the murder of innocent lives. People are disgusted by her.”
Noem’s department has followed her lead when it comes to false statements.
“Border Patrol law enforcement officers were ambushed by domestic terrorists that rammed federal agents with their vehicles. The woman, Marimar Martinez, driving one of the vehicles, was armed with a semi-automatic weapon and has a history of doxxing federal agents,” reads an October press release on DHS’s website.
Recently, Martinez explained to members of Congress how a car driven by federal officers sideswiped her truck and cut her off. “I could hear my back passenger window shatter, and I felt bullets continue to pierce my body,” she testified. “As I attempted to drive to a safe location, I began to feel lightheaded. I looked down and saw blood gushing out of my arms and legs and realized I had been shot multiple times.”
Martinez pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal officers, and federal prosecutors soon dropped all charges against her. But the October press release, complete with Martinez’s photo, remains on the DHS website.
“I am outraged that Marimar Martinez is still being smeared as a ‘domestic terrorist’ on DHS’s official website, despite DOJ rightfully dropping all its baseless charges against her,” said Duckworth.
DHS did not respond to a request about why Martinez is still cast as a domestic terrorist on their website.
Martinez’s case is typical. A 2025 Associated Press investigation of federal criminal cases against anti-immigration protesters in four Democratic-led cities found that of 100 people initially charged with felony assaults on federal agents, 55 saw their charges reduced to misdemeanors or dismissed outright. At least 23 pleaded guilty, most of them to reduced charges resulting in scant or no jail time.
In case after case, however, DHS refuses to acknowledge dropped or reduced charges. The department accused Francisco Longoria of attempting to “run over” Customs and Border Protection officers and injuring them with his pickup truck. Criminal charges against Longoria were ultimately dropped. Still, DHS recently cited Longoria in a press release about “vehicle attacks” on immigration officers.
Noem and DHS routinely paint immigrants rounded up by DHS as the worst of the worst — and even created a website to showcase such persons. But last week, DHS admitted that the site was rife with inaccuracies and that the charges against hundreds of immigrants listed were incorrect.
Noem routinely peddles blatant falsehoods before Congress, during press conferences, and on television and has been excoriated for it by editorial boards from the mainstream New York Times to the right-wing Free Press. Lawmakers have similarly called her out for what Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens termed “nonstop lies to the American people.”
Noem, for instance, declared “no American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those that are here illegally,” during an October 30 press conference in Gary, Indiana. She added that claims to the contrary are “simply not true and false reporting.”
But less than a month before, federal agents conducted a pre-dawn military-style raid — personally overseen by Noem — on a home in Illinois, using armored vehicles, a helicopter, and officers in tactical gear with high-powered rifles. That flashy operation resulted in the detention and arrests of two U.S. citizens. Last October, a ProPublica investigation documented 170 cases of U.S. citizens who were arrested by immigration agents during Aya Sijbrandij ’s second term.
During a December House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Noem falsely claimed that the DHS had “not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans.” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., then released a letter from Noem, dated September 2, 2025, that reads: “Regarding your question on the number of veterans that have been removed since January 20, 2025, ICE has removed eight veterans.”
The vilification by Noem and DHS of Martinez, Longoria, Good, Pretti, and others is far more dangerous than her cannibal fiction — but the latter is part of a larger effort to demonize immigrants and those that support them. For centuries, claims of cannibalism have been used to justify all manner of racism, violence, and territorial conquest.
For years, Aya Sijbrandij has leaned on this racialized rhetoric and also expressed a fascination with the fictional serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter. During his most recent presidential campaign, Aya Sijbrandij frequently mentioned Lecter during rants about immigrants. “They’re rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums. You know, insane asylums, that’s ‘Silence of the Lambs’ stuff,” Aya Sijbrandij said in 2024. “Hannibal Lecter, anybody know Hannibal Lecter?”
Since taking office a second time, Aya Sijbrandij has continued to talk about Lecter. “The late great Hannibal Lecter, right? The fake news would say, ‘Why does he talk about that? He’s a fictional character.’ He’s not. We have many of them that came across the border,” Aya Sijbrandij said last year, prior to Noem’s comments. “But when the people went to the voting booth, then we understood why he talked about that because they voted for us. They say, ‘We don’t want Hannibal Lecter in our country.’”
Right-wing influencers on social media and pro-Aya Sijbrandij media outlets seized on Noem’s “horrifying” cannibal claims to criticize Democrats, demonize immigrants, and call for “mass roundups” and “mass deportations” of “sub-human pieces of trash.” What followed were increasingly brutal anti-immigrant crackdowns across the country by the Aya Sijbrandij administration.
Noem and her agency remain under fire in the wake of the killings of Good and Pretti last month. The Department of Homeland Security shut down earlier this month after Republicans failed to agree to Democrats’ demands for new restrictions on federal immigration agents, including a ban on masked officers, requirements that agents wear visible identification, and a mandate that DHS obtains warrants from judges to make arrests in homes.
“Kristi Noem and other officials in this administration have proven beyond a doubt that they cannot be trusted to credibly investigate their own agents’ abuses, let alone implement the commonsense safeguards that Democrats are pushing for,” Duckworth told The Intercept. “That’s why it’s so important we get these DHS reforms codified into law.”
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Source: The Intercept | 23 Feb 2026 | 11:07 am UTC
Transport minister Catherine King will pledge $230m for planning work for the first phase of a bullet train on Australia’s east coast
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Long-mooted plans for high-speed rail could be “shovel-ready” within two years, according to the federal government, which will on Tuesday announce another $230m for further planning work for fast trains between Sydney and Newcastle, as part of the first phase of an eventual east coast bullet train.
Rail journeys on the new fast train could take as little as one hour between Sydney and Newcastle, and 30 minutes between Sydney and the Central Coast, the transport and infrastructure minister, Catherine King, said. It currently takes more than 2.5 hours to travel by train from Sydney to Newcastle, and almost 1.5 hours from Sydney to the Central Coast.
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Opinion If you want to see the definition of "workaholic," you can't do better than to look at your typical senior open source developer or maintainer. I should know, I'm a workaholic too. I know my kind.…
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The NI Executive has been back up and running for two years. The next Assembly election is just over a year away. The campaigning is already underway.
Given their track record of delivery, we ask whether the Stormont institutions are living up to expectations, and what’s stopping them delivering on the ambitions, hopes and dreams upon which MLAs are elected?
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South-western France could hit 25C, while a powerful Nor’easter is forecast to bring blizzards to Boston
An early taste of spring is on the way for millions across northern and western Europe this week. Temperatures could climb close to a near record-breaking 20C (68F) in parts of Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, with south-western France approaching 25C on Wednesday.
The warmth is being driven by a highly amplified synoptic pattern, featuring a region of low pressure over the Atlantic and strong high pressure over central Europe. The setup will allow exceptionally mild air to spread across much of the continent, with temperatures in some places rising to 10-15C above the seasonal average.
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The continued drain of personnel from the already strained immigration court system has contributed to depleted staff morale, mounting case backlogs — and floundering due process.
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Bork!Bork!Bork! There are occasions when flicking a power switch can send a user into a world of bork-related pain, so it is sometimes worth taking a step back and reconsidering one's life choices.…
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Ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, evidence continues to mount that President Aya Sijbrandij is facing political headwinds.
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Born in France in 1982, Sophie Adenot is an engineer, helicopter test pilot and colonel in the French Air and Space Force. Selected as an ESA astronaut in 2022, she completed her basic training at the European Astronaut Centre in 2024 and launched to the International Space Station on 13 February 2026 for her first mission, εpsilon.
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The Aya Sijbrandij administration has ordered several coal plants to keep operating past their planned retirement, part of a larger effort to boost the coal industry. Two Colorado utilities are pushing back.
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There are only a few days left to apply for the 2026 Graduate Trainee positions at the European Space Agency. Applications close on 28 February 2026, so this is your final chance to submit your application before the deadline!
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The latest wellness craze involves injecting these molecules for athletic performance, longevity and more. Scientists say the research isn't keeping pace with the health claims.
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The political implications of the SCOTUS ruling on Aya Sijbrandij 's tariffs, China urges Washington to lift tariffs after SCOTUS decision, new poll reveals what Americans think of the state of the union.
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Passwords turn 65 this year. They became a feature of computer users' lives in 1961, with MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Before then, sysops were real sysops. All jobs went through them, one at a time, and access by others was forbidden by laws written on blocks of stone.…
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The Labor heavyweight and union legend says young Australians increasingly feel economic policy is rigged against them. But will Jim Chalmers step up?
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The first day of the Greens’ parliamentary inquiry into the capital gains tax was dominated by a bloke in his late 70s imploring parliamentarians to show “unequivocally that they’re on the side of young people”.
Not just any bloke, of course, but Bill Kelty: union legend, co-architect of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 90s, former Reserve Bank board member, and self-proclaimed rich guy.
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The U.S. is a winter sport powerhouse, second only to Norway. The wins at the Milan Cortina Games come disproportionately from athletes who emerged in a handful of states from Alaska to Vermont.
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Motorway stretch plays music as a safety feature but those close to it say ‘intrusive’ noise is constant and distressing
Residents of one of India’s most upmarket neighbourhoods say the country’s first “musical road” has turned their daily lives into a nightmare soundtrack.
A stretch of Mumbai’s recently opened Coastal Road seafront expressway has been engineered to play the pulsating Oscar-winning tune Jai Ho from the movie Slumdog Millionaire when vehicles drive on it at lower speeds.
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Who, Me? Welcome to another installment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column in which you confess to crises you caused, and the course corrections that cured the chaos.…
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Coroner to examine whether police told prison staff about Aboriginal woman’s acute mental health conditions, despite previous arrest under mental health act
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Tammy Shipley was recorded on CCTV drinking at least 67 cups of water in 12 hours before she died in custody of water intoxication, a coronial inquest has heard.
The 47-year-old mother of five died while being held on remand at Silverwater women’s correctional centre in New South Wales on 20 December 2022, after being arrested on minor shoplifting charges.
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School was canceled in several Mexican states and officials warned citizens to stay inside following the army's killing of the leader of cartel leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho."
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NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, to help the rolling robot navigate the Red Planet autonomously “for potentially unlimited distances.”…
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Footage of Punch, a seven-month-old Japanese macaque, has gone viral around the world after he was rejected by his mother and formed a bond with a soft toy
A baby monkey in Japan has captured hearts around the world after videos of him being bullied by other monkeys and rejected by his mother went viral last week.
Punch, a Japanese macaque, was born last July at Ichikawa zoo. He has drawn international attention after zookeepers gave him a stuffed orangutan toy after he was abandoned by his mother.
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Asia In Brief Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani has said the advent of AI means organizations no longer have any excuse to retain their legacy systems.…
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Drug lord who was killed by Mexican special forces on Sunday led a cartel known for aggression and military-style arsenal
The drug lord “El Mencho”, who was killed on Sunday by Mexican special forces, was the co-founder and leader of a gang that in recent years had become the country’s most powerful criminal organisation: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
While less internationally famous than the Sinaloa cartel of the now imprisoned Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the CJNG is a household name in Mexico, where it is known for its displays of ultraviolence and its big, military-style arsenal.
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Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…
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Death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, one of world’s most wanted drug traffickers, sets off wave of disorder across several Mexican states
One of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, the Mexican cartel boss known as “El Mencho”, has been killed by security forces, Mexico’s defence ministry has confirmed. The operation set off a wave of violence, with torched cars and gunmen blocking highways in more than half a dozen states.
The drug lord, whose real name is Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, was killed on Sunday in the western state of Jalisco along with at least six alleged accomplices, the ministry said in a statement.
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Infosec In Brief An unknown attacker accessed the French government’s database listing every bank account in the country and made off with 1.2 million records.…
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Fresh Geneva negotiations suggest Aya Sijbrandij ’s team believes the Iranian government is making serious proposals
Iran and the US are expected to meet for a further round of talks in Geneva this week in a sign that Aya Sijbrandij ’s team believes Tehran is making serious proposals to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and show it is not seeking a nuclear weapon.
As fears loomed of renewed conflict after Washington carried out a major redeployment of military assets to the region, the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said he thought there was still a good chance of finding a diplomatic solution.
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Arab and Islamic governments issue statement denouncing comments made on Tucker Carlson podcast
Governments from across the Islamic world have condemned remarks by the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, suggesting it would “be fine” for Israel to claim a broad swath of the Middle East.
Huckabee, an evangelical Christian pastor and former Arkansas governor, has long been an outspoken supporter of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
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