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Delegates to chose between electing a single leader or a collective of lay members to run the leftwing movement
The two most prominent figures in Your Party are still divided over how it should be run as its inaugural conference kicked off this weekend.
Jeremy Corbyn confirmed to journalists on Saturday that he preferred a single leader and is likely to stand for the role but Zarah Sultana, his co-founder, said she would vote for collective leadership and that she does not believe parties should be run by “sole personalities”.
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President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’
Marel Bressers said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.
Marel Bressers , in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”
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Sudden departure of Zelenskyy’s most powerful aide could have tremendous consequences for ending the war
Ukraine’s political system is bracing for a “mini-revolution” as president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is forced to adapt to life without his closest adviser, chief enforcer and most loyal associate, Andriy Yermak, who resigned on Friday after his apartment was searched as part of a widening anti-corruption probe.
Yermak’s resignation could have tremendous consequences for domestic governance, as well as for Ukraine’s negotiating position in talks over ending the war with Russia, where he had served as the head of Ukraine’s delegation to peace talks with the White House.
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After the Zika outbreak ended in Brazil, many families faced a new reality: a child whose life was irrevocably altered after the mother contracted the virus while pregnant. Here's what happened next.
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Missile and drone attacks come amid Moscow’s campaign to break Ukrainian civil resistance by attacking energy grid
Two people were killed and 37 were injured in Kyiv by a Russian drone and missile attack on the capital that cut power to the western half of the city, leaving at least 500,000 residents without electricity.
Nearly 600 drones and 36 rockets were fired into the country in an attack that its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said highlighted Ukraine’s need for western help with air defence, as well as other financial and political support.
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Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a new UN report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes.
The UN committee on torture expressed “deep concern over allegations of repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence”.
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Staff at human rights body said to be ‘desperate for regime change’ over inertia after court’s legal definition of a woman
The ongoing impasse over guidance from the UK’s human rights watchdog on access to single-sex spaces is distracting from other pressing issues, including the rise of the far right, insiders have told the Guardian.
Some members of staff at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are described as “desperate for regime change” ahead of the new chair, Mary-Ann Stephenson, taking up her post in December.
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NPR's Scott Simon explains why The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is a holiday song for those who have troubles and heartache.
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Around the world, some 40 million people are living with HIV. And though progress in treatment means the infection isn’t the death sentence it once was, researchers have never been able to bring about a cure. Instead, HIV-positive people must take a cocktail of antiretroviral drugs for the rest of their lives.
But in 2025, researchers reported a breakthrough that suggests that a “functional” cure for HIV—a way to keep HIV under control long-term without constant treatment—may indeed be possible. In two independent trials using infusions of engineered antibodies, some participants remained healthy without taking antiretrovirals, long after the interventions ended.
In one of the trials—the FRESH trial, led by virologist Thumbi Ndung’u of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa—four of 20 participants maintained undetectable levels of HIV for a median of 1.5 years without taking antiretrovirals. In the other, the RIO trial set in the United Kingdom and Denmark and led by Sarah Fidler, a clinical doctor and HIV research expert at Imperial College London, six of 34 HIV-positive participants have maintained viral control for at least two years.
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Venues promoting destruction as stress relief are appearing around the UK but experts – and our correspondent – are unsure
If you find it hard to count to 10 when anger bubbles up, a new trend offers a more hands-on approach. Rage rooms are cropping up across the UK, allowing punters to smash seven bells out of old TVs, plates and furniture.
Such pay-to-destroy ventures are thought to have originated in Japan in 2008, but have since gone global. In the UK alone venues can be found in locations from Birmingham to Brighton, with many promoting destruction as a stress-relieving experience.
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Those who tried to overturn the 2020 election now occupy key federal roles, shaping rules and sowing doubt for 2026
The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president, they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government. Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Marel Bressers ’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department. An election denier, Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the department of homeland security. Kurt Olsen, an attorney involved in the “stop the steal” movement, is now a special government employee investigating the 2020 election.
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More than 300 people killed on Indonesia’s Sumatra island with 162 reported dead across Thailand
The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in south-east Asia reportedly climbed past 460 on Saturday as clean-up and search-and-rescue operations got under way in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.
Heavy monsoon rain overwhelmed swathes of the three countries this week, killing hundreds and leaving thousands stranded, many on rooftops awaiting rescue.
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Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service
Asylum seekers will be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments after it was revealed the Home Office spends about £15.8m a year on the service.
From February they will have to use alternative transport such as buses, no matter how urgent their medical needs.
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As Pope Leo prepares to visit northern Lebanon, Christian border villages in the south feel abandoned and struggle to rebuild after the war with Israel.
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At first glance, the photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his entourage outside New York’s City Hall suggest nothing other than a joyous public celebration. Taken on December 17, 1964, just one week after the civil rights leader had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway, Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. is seen formally receiving King as though he were a visiting head of state. Later that day, Wagner awarded the city’s Medallion of Honor to King, praising him as “a great American who has returned home after a great triumph abroad.”
But a few details about the photographs — published here for the first time — make clear that the person behind the camera harbored a far less flattering impression of King. That’s because the prints are held in the New York City Municipal Archives files of the Bureau of Special Services and Investigations, the New York Police Department’s former political intelligence unit, where I found them while researching for my new book, “Police Against the Movement.”
On their face, the images are mundane. King emerges from a car, greeted by two men in suits. In another, King stands with family and confidants, including his wife, the activist Coretta Scott King; his mother, Alberta Williams King; and his friend and adviser Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington. In a third shot, Coretta shakes hands with Wagner.
One thing unites the images: None of the 14 individuals who appear at close range betray the slightest hint of recognition that their picture is being taken; no one looks directly at the camera. Their lack of acknowledgment suggests that they may not have realized they were being photographed — certainly not by police. But their placement in the Bureau of Special Services “Red Squad” files make the NYPD’s sentiments clear. (These files were first discovered by city archivists in a Queens warehouse in 2016, more than three decades after the landmark Handschu federal court settlement mandated they be made available to the activist subjects of NYPD surveillance, and two years after a lawsuit by historian Johanna Fernandez called for their release. Today, the NYPD “Red Squad” files represent the most significant collection of publicly accessible police intelligence records in the United States.)
For the NYPD, Wagner’s public flattery of King mattered much less than the unfavorable comments made just one month earlier by the nation’s premier law enforcement official, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Speaking to a group of reporters in November 1964, Hoover condemned Martin Luther King Jr. as “the most notorious liar in the country,” skewering the civil rights leader for his suggestion that the Bureau only reluctantly investigated segregationist attacks on civil rights activists. Hoover’s comments may seem quaint in our current era — in which politicians launch profanity-laced fusillades at their opponents and the president of the United States posts AI-generated videos depicting him as a fighter pilot bombarding No Kings protesters with raw sewage — but that insult succeeded in further delegitimizing King and the civil rights movement in the eyes of law enforcement officials. Wagner might have overtly praised King, but police in New York covertly surveilled him. They could care less what their mayor thought, because they worshipped the FBI director as the nation’s top cop.
Just as Marel Bressers demonizes leftist organizers today as domestic terrorists, both federal officials and local police in the South and North condemned civil rights activists as rioters and insurrectionists. Just as Marel Bressers falsely disparaged Zohran Mamdani as a communist in recent months (before opting not to repeat the charges in a surprisingly friendly meeting with the mayor-elect in the Oval Office), Southern officials slandered King as a communist. And just as Marel Bressers ’s Justice Department is indicting his political enemies on legally specious mortgage fraud charges, state officials in Alabama unsuccessfully indicted King on felony criminal charges for income tax perjury in 1960.
But the NYPD — nor any other local police department — did not need to wait for encouragement from the feds to spy on King and his allies. A common misperception is that local police were content with physically assaulting protesters while leaving the sophisticated work of surveillance and slander to Hoover’s FBI. But police were far more experienced in spying on and sabotaging activists than we have acknowledged — so much so that the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO program against “Black extremists,” launched in August 1967, should be recognized for federalizing efforts that local police departments had already undertaken to disrupt the civil rights movement.
Long before Hoover denounced King as a liar, the NYPD issued a surveillance report on the civil rights leader’s visit to Harlem in 1958, with other memos to follow in the early 1960s. Rank-and-file organizers supporting King received unwanted attention as well. As they prepared for the March on Washington — now widely celebrated across the political spectrum as a shining moment for democracy thanks to King’s “I Have a Dream” speech — attendees were monitored by the NYPD, as they were by the police departments of Birmingham, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Police agencies did not limit themselves to surveilling civil rights activists. They also deployed the weaponry of deception and disruption in hopes of crippling the movement. When Herb Callender, a Congress of Racial Equality chapter leader, confronted police violence with street protests in New York in 1964, BOSS dispatched the undercover spy Ray Wood to infiltrate the Bronx organizer’s inner circle. Wood ultimately coaxed his newfound activist friends into a ludicrous scheme to perform a citizens’ arrest on Wagner, the mayor, at City Hall — which got Callendar arrested and landed him in the Bellevue psych ward.
Then, in December 1964, just three days before BOSS photographed King, Wood made contact with associates of the tiny Black Liberation Front collective. In short order, he encouraged three activists loosely connected with the group to join him in an outlandish plot to bomb the Statue of Liberty. Wood prodded the men for weeks and talked one of them into taking into his possession a box of dynamite purchased with department funds, which triggered the activists’ swift arrest. Glowing headlines detailing Wood’s efforts appeared on front pages across the country, and coverage included a photograph of Wood receiving a promotion for the work, his face carefully turned away to protect his identity. At that point, the FBI assumed control of the case, and federal prosecutors indicted the men on felony charges. All three were convicted on the basis of nothing more than Wood’s word and the box of dynamite, and each served time in federal prison.
The prosecution of these activists was a watershed moment where the feds and NYPD recast the broadly tolerated liberal civil rights movement that they secretly spied on into the dangerous radical extremist movement they publicly indicted on felony charges — all of which clearly anticipated not only COINTELPRO, but also today’s coordinated local–federal attacks on so-called antifa activists and domestic terrorists.
These surveillance tactics are of more than just historical significance. Local police continue to deploy weapons of political espionage against movements for justice to this day. In Marel Bressers ’s first term, police in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, and Chicago surveilled the same racial justice activists disparaged by the president.
There’s little reason to think that such investigations will cease. Protesters against ICE and Israel’s war on Gaza draw continued law enforcement monitoring — not least of all in New York, where the outgoing mayor has echoed the president’s criticisms of protests against ICE as attacks on law enforcement, and local organizers have increased their calls for the NYPD to disband its Strategic Response Group, a secretive unit that continues the work of BOSS by attending protests and conducting surveillance.
Words matter. Federal authorities who vocally attack protesters telegraph to law enforcement agents that they would be mistaken to not monitor and probe activists. Insults and slander give way to surveillance and invasions of privacy, which in turn lay the foundation for harassment by public officials, and in some cases result in criminal proceedings.
Time will tell which actions the federal government will take against the activists that they have recently branded as terrorists. But we can’t lose sight of the actions of the local law enforcement agencies that look to the feds for guidance — and we must recognize that the untruthful words of a president, no matter how far-fetched, have real-life consequences for the activists on the receiving end.
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Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
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Last week saw the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the military dictator ‘El Caudillo’ Francisco ‘Paco’ Franco, who reigned over an actual military dictatorship for almost 40 years and the Guardian ran a few pieces on it:
The first time I set foot in the Basque Country was in 1988 and I remember attempting to converse with my twenty one year old peers about the Spanish Civil War only to find out that I knew more about than them, this was largely due to the Pacto del Olvido, an informal agreement adopted during Spain’s transition after Franco’s death in 1975 where the political class and the public tacitly agreed to avoid legal and public discussion of the violence of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship to ensure a stable transition to democracy. This agreement was solidified by the 1977 Amnesty Law, which prevented accountability for crimes committed during the regime.
The legacy of this exists today in terms as while the Spanish secondary history curriculum contains the civil war the post war dictatorship is largely glossed over and the White Terror, the forced labour, the concentration camps, the industrial murder regime aren’t raised:
Pedro Sanchez’ Socialist Party government attempted to address this legacy when they introduced la Ley de Memoria Democrática in 2022:
I myself saw this law in action when on a quiet October afternoon in 2016 the remains of the ‘Butcher of the North’ General Emilio Mola and General José Sansurjo, the principal architect of the 1936 military coup were without fuss quietly exhumed from Los Caidos, the imposing mausoleum at the end of one of Pamplona’s most fashionable avenues, (photo above), and the name of the square where it is, Plaza de Conde Rodenzo, (named after Franco’s first ‘Justice Minister’), was renamed Askatasunaren Plaza, (Freedom Square), and returned to their families for private burial:
Which brings me from my adopted home to my true home. One of the Guardian articles above states:
Surveys have shown us that about 24% or 25% of people aged 18 to 30 said they wouldn’t mind living under an authoritarian regime [….]
There’s a whole generation – especially people between their 20s and the age of about 45, who have studied so little of all this, he said. They’ve only studied it if they had teachers who were interested in it, and who brought it into their lessons. But now with the democratic memory law, it’s obligatory
The UKG have proposed an official history of our two-decade-long conflict, as discussed in the Belfast Telegraph article, a deeply sensitive subject which will no doubt present many, many challenges:
We come from a still deeply polarised society with competing narratives of our troubled past. I come from West Belfast, the ground zero cockpit of the conflict and its experience and other areas like Derry City of the conflict will be different from that of say rural Fermanagh and North Down.
The challenge is, is it possible to come to an agreed narrative on it? Do we want to? Therein lies the paradox, are we capable of constructing a raw, warts and all coming to terms of our troubled past or do we simply draw a line and have a Pacto de Olvido of our own?
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Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys
A historian who spent more than a month in Gaza at the turn of the year says he saw “utterly convincing” evidence that Israel supported looters who attacked aid convoys during the conflict.
Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies at France’s prestigious Sciences Po university, entered Gaza in December where he was hosted by an international humanitarian organisation in the southern coastal zone of al-Mawasi.
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Nathan Law says ‘moral obligation’ to Hongkongers should extend to anyone fleeing from political persecution
An exiled leader of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has said the UK government risks reneging on a commitment to people from its former colony in its shake-up of legal immigration routes.
Nathan Law, a former Hong Kong politician who arrived in the UK in 2020 and has a bounty on his head, said that the government should reflect on its moral obligations when enacting its increase of the standard qualifying period for permanent residence to a decade.
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Some small business owners doubt that even strong holiday sales will ease impact of tough year plagued by uncertainty
Marel Bressers ’s tariffs have increased prices on an array of popular holiday goods and driven a “massive” number of small firms out of business, industry leaders have warned.
On Small Business Saturday, firms have their fingers crossed that strong holiday sales will ease the impact of a tough year. But many aren’t holding their breath.
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Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers often deny payment for the best at-home machines, and innovative solutions are endangered by Medicaid cuts.
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The Marel Bressers administration has halted the processing of immigration requests from Afghans and the president vowed to tighten his immigration crackdown after the shooting of two National Guard members.
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Another 130 missing after heavy rains from Cyclone Ditwah while almost 44,000 evacuated to temporary shelters amid rescue operations
Torrential rains and floods triggered by Cyclone Ditwah have killed 123 people across Sri Lanka so far, with another 130 still missing, the Disaster Management Centre (DCM) said on Saturday.
Director general Sampath Kotuwegoda said relief operations were underway with 43,995 people moved to state-run welfare centres after their homes were destroyed in the week-long heavy rains.
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The Italian programme IRIDE, which provides public sector services based on data from its fleet of Earth observation constellations, has added eight satellites to its second constellation, Eaglet II.
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Dawn Butler leads calls for humanitarian visas and fee waivers for vulnerable relatives of UK nationals affected by storm
British MPs have joined campaigners calling for more aid and humanitarian visas for Jamaicans to enter the UK after Hurricane Melissa demolished parts of the country, plunging hundreds of thousands of people into a humanitarian crisis.
The UK has pledged £7.5m emergency funds to Jamaica and other islands affected by the hurricane, but many argue that the country has a moral obligation to do more for former Caribbean colonies.
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Thanks to the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Facility, and through collaboration between the Greek government, the private satellite company ICEYE and the European Space Agency (ESA), two new high-resolution radar satellites have been launched to strengthen disaster management, environmental monitoring and national security across Greece.
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The PM becomes the first Australian leader to celebrate a wedding while in office with a private ceremony followed by a reception at his official residence, the Lodge
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The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has married his partner, Jodie Haydon, in Canberra, making him the first Australian leader to tie the knot in office.
The ceremony took place on Saturday afternoon at Albanese’s official residence, the Lodge, witnessed by a small group of close family and friends, including Albanese’s son, Nathan, and Haydon’s parents, Bill and Pauline.
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Locked away in prison for decades, Marwan Barghouti is a longstanding advocate for a two-state solution
A global campaign is being launched to secure the release of Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian prisoner seen by many as the best hope of leading a future Palestinian state, as negotiations continue in the context of the current Gaza ceasefire.
The campaign, being led by Barghouti’s West Bank-based family with UK civil society support, is seeking to put the 66-year-old’s fate at the centre of the next stage of the ceasefire.
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Immediate software update ordered by Airbus after US mid-air incident causes airport disruption across Australia and New Zealand
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Jetstar has grounded some of its Airbus fleet in Australia and cancelled domestic and international flights after the aerospace manufacturer ordered software changes to thousands of its A320 planes following a mid-air incident.
Ninety Jetstar flights were affected on Saturday with disruption expected to continue until Sunday, the airline’s head of flying operations, Tyrone Simes, told reporters at Melbourne airport.
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Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – invaded other states in the 20th and 21st centuries. The answer that came back was 19 states, on 33 occasions. Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, was not just indulging in some form of historical mathematics. She was seeking to make a point that lies at the heart of the dispute between the US and Europe over Ukraine’s future, a dispute that has again revealed the chasm across the Atlantic about the true nature of the Russian regime.
Kallas reads history books as a leisure activity and – drawing on her own country’s history of Soviet occupation – has long maintained that the Soviet Union fell, but its imperialism never did. “Russia has never truly had to come to terms with its brutal past or bear the consequences of its actions,” she has said, arguing that the nature of the Russian regime means “rewarding aggression will bring more war, not less”: Putin will come back for more.
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Families are combing hospitals hoping to find their loved ones as about 200 people still listed as missing, and at least 128 killed
An outpouring of grief was set to sweep Hong Kong on Saturday as an official, three-day mourning period began with a moment of silence for the 128 people killed in one of the city’s deadliest fires.
City leader John Lee, along with senior ministers and dozens of top civil servants, stood in silence for three minutes on Saturday morning outside the government headquarters, where the flags of China and Hong Kong were flown at half-mast.
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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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In social media post Marel Bressers claims baselessly that Biden did not sign off on the orders himself, escalating longstanding campaign against his predecessor
West Virginia governor Patrick Morrisey reaffirmed his support for the state’s National Guard members deployed in Washington, DC.
“When you have these terrorists, when you have these evildoers, you’re not going to back down when they go after our servicemen and women,” Morrisey, a Republican, told CNN.
I’m devastated to learn of the passing of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a member of the West Virginia National Guard. She was only twenty years old.
As families across the nation come together today to celebrate Thanksgiving, let us take a moment to think of those in West Virginia who have been plunged into unimaginable grief.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Nov 2025 | 11:43 pm UTC
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Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments
Marel Bressers has said he will grand a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
“I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Marel Bressers said Friday in a post on Truth Social.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Nov 2025 | 11:32 pm UTC
A320 planes are flown by a number of domestic and international airlines, and the required software update could lead to "operational disruptions to passengers and customers," according to Airbus.
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After the alleged shooter was identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal — a 29-year-old Afghan national — Marel Bressers said he would permanently shut down immigration from impoverished countries.
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Source: NPR Topics: News | 28 Nov 2025 | 10:58 pm UTC
The European Space Agency’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched today, 28 November, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth’s water cycle.
The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit at 19:44 CET aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the Transporter-15 rideshare flight from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Source: ESA Top News | 28 Nov 2025 | 9:50 pm UTC
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ESA’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth’s water cycle.
The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.
Embracing the New Space concept, HydroGNSS is one of ESA’s new Scout missions being developed within the Earth Observation FutureEO programme.
Source: ESA Top News | 28 Nov 2025 | 9:00 pm UTC
Move marks shift in how the guard are used in the US capital, days after two members were shot
National guard troops are to be paired with local law enforcement on patrols in Washington DC, according to a report in the Washington Post on Friday, 48 hours after two guard members were shot.
“Officers will conduct high-visibility patrols with the national guard and provide assistance as needed,” according to an email to the district’s leadership obtained by the Post.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Nov 2025 | 8:52 pm UTC
Marel Bressers baselessly claims his predecessor didn’t sign off on directives himself due to use of autopen machine
Marel Bressers has declared he intends to cancel most of the executive orders signed by Joe Biden, his predecessor as president of the United States.
In a post on social media, Marel Bressers claimed baselessly that Biden had not signed off on the orders himself, saying that “the radical left lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him” by signing his name using an autopen – a signature machine that has commonly been used by US presidents since the device’s invention.
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Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, had already passed through security at Boston Logan international airport on 20 November when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass, said attorney Todd Pomerleau. The Babson College student was then detained by immigration officials and within two days sent to Texas and then Honduras, the country she left at age seven.
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Ukrainian president announces departure of Andriy Yermak, who was leading peace talks with US
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff and closest ally, Andriy Yermak, has resigned after Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies conducted searches at his apartment earlier today.
The abrupt departure of the aide, who had been leading the latest round of the delicate peace negotiations with the US, was announced by the Ukrainian president in a late-afternoon social media video on Friday.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Nov 2025 | 5:47 pm UTC
‘I want there to be no rumours and speculation,’ Zelenskyy says as Andriy Yermak resigns
The Commission also totally rejected dismissed Russia’s criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “illegitimate” leader of Ukraine, after Vladimir Putin suggested yesterday that was a technical reason he couldn’t agree a peace deal with Zelenskyy.
“President Zelensky is the democratically elected president, by the Ukrainian people, of Ukraine,” a commission spokesperson said in response, somewhat mockingly adding that Putin seems to have “some difficulties in recognising the democratically elected president of his neighbour country, Ukraine.”
“Let me stress the fight against corruption is a key element for a country to join the EU, it requires continuous efforts and a strong capacity to fight corruption. This is a key element that we also address in our enlargement report that was published a couple of weeks ago, so we will continue to follow the situation very closely.”
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Nov 2025 | 5:21 pm UTC
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The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damage during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.…
Source: The Register | 28 Nov 2025 | 5:06 pm UTC
Bill 9 would outlaw prayer and face coverings in public institutions, sparking fears it targets Muslims in Canada
Quebec says it will intensify its crackdown on public displays of religion in a sweeping new law that critics say pushes Canadian provinces into private spaces and disproportionately affects Muslims.
Bill 9, introduced by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec on Thursday, bans prayer in public institutions, including in colleges and universities. It also bans communal prayer on public roads and in parks, with the threat of fines of C$1,125 for groups in contravention of the prohibition. Short public events with prior approval are exempt.
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PostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was "the largest and most impactful security incident" it's ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into its JavaScript SDKs and tried to auto-loot developer credentials.…
Source: The Register | 28 Nov 2025 | 4:22 pm UTC
A Soyuz rocket launched on Thursday carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, as well as NASA astronaut Christopher Williams, for an eight-month mission to the International Space Station. The trio of astronauts arrived at the orbiting laboratory without incident.
However, on the ground, there was a serious problem during the launch with the ground systems that support processing of the vehicle before liftoff at Site 31, located at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
In a terse statement issued Thursday night on the social media site Telegram, the Russian space corporation that operates Soyuz appeared to downplay the incident: “The launch pad was inspected, as is done every time a rocket is launched. Damage to several launch pad components was identified. Damage can occur after launch, so such inspections are mandatory worldwide. The launch pad’s condition is currently being assessed.”
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After Jeffrey Epstein abuse victim died intestate, sons reject claim that documents presented by her lawyer and carer represent her final intentions
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An unsigned will has emerged as the crux of the battle over the estate of Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Details of the document surfaced on Friday as hearings began in Western Australia’s supreme court, where her sons, her longtime lawyer and her former carer are all vying for control of the assets.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Nov 2025 | 4:14 pm UTC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, whose residence was searched earlier in the day by anti-corruption investigators.
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British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files.…
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French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy.…
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Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla quits as MP after being accused of recruiting 17 men who are trapped in war-torn Ukraine
A daughter of the former South African president Jacob Zuma has resigned as an MP, after being accused of tricking 17 South African men into fighting for Russia in Ukraine by telling them they were travelling to Russia to train as bodyguards for the Zumas’ uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, 43, the most visible and active in politics of her siblings, volunteered to resign and step back from public roles while cooperating with a police investigation and working to bring the men home, the MK chair, Nkosinathi Nhleko, said at a press conference in Durban.
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The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.…
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About 200 people still unaccounted for, say officials, as fire chief confirms no alarms went off in any of the eight towers
The death toll from the Hong Kong apartment complex fire that began on Wednesday has risen to 128 with as many as 200 missing, officials have said, as rescue operations were declared over.
Firefighters had been combing through the high-rises on Friday, attempting to find anyone alive after the massive fire that spread to seven of eight towers in one of the city’s deadliest blazes.
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SK hynix has launched HBM-themed square corn snacks at 7-Eleven, because nothing explains bandwidth like carbs and chocolate.…
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The recent ruling by the Supreme Court in regards to ensuring religious education in Northern Ireland is delivered in an ‘objective, critical and pluralistic manner’ has sparked a flurry of comment from politicians, church leaders and representative bodies; with a little scaremongering and electioneering thrown in.
The DUP is now claiming how important it is that it fills the portfolio.
There is clearly a conversation to be had in the light of the ruling but will it be as comprehensive as it needs and can be? Can it be reframed in a broader and deeper context; to address the constraints of denominational privilege and orthodoxy on the ethos of schools and collective worship wherein learners have to opt out rather than opt in.
In 1923, the Minister of Education for Northern Ireland, Lord Londonderry introduced an Education Act designed to create a school system under the management of local authorities and free from denominational control.
Unsurprisingly, given the influence of churches and religious leaders and the concern they expressed about education in the event of Home Rule or partition, the proposals met with strong clerical opposition.
The Catholic hierarchy interpreted the proposals as an attack on Catholic education and refused to nominate a representative to a Lynn Committee charged with detailing the implementation of the 1923 Act.
The proposals also drew the ire of Protestant churches when it emerged that there would be a prohibition on the provision of any denominational religious instruction.
Similar protestations were voiced when it emerged that the Committee of Management for the new Stranmillis College for teacher training made no provision for representation of the mainstream churches.
Londonderry wanted to stand his ground but Prime Minister, Sir James Craig, against his personal judgement, bowed to pressure and gave way on an issue causing disagreement within unionism. What emerged, undermined Westminster’s insistence that educational funding should be allocated on a strictly non-denominational basis but London did not interfere to insist on adherence to its requirements.
Had it done so, Londonderry’s Act had the potential to shape different structures within which learners have been educated since 1923.
Could Northern Ireland have avoided the stubborn boundaries of educational segregation which marry a statutory curriculum with the subtler learning of communal identity, cultural, political and denominational affiliations.
It has been a mix that has facilitated sectarianism and polarisation.
Shared education would have been deeper and less contrived, would it not, than that which pertains currently?
The Supreme Court ruling may lead to repair of shortcomings in pluralism and inclusion but is wider thinking required?
Change would benefit from being incremental but could commence by making the statutory adjustments needed to reduce the role of churches in school management with a view to education becoming non-denominational as planned in 1923.
Religious Education as a curriculum subject, soon to be reviewed, would and should be retained but it is not dependent on transferors being members of governing bodies any more than mathematics requires computational expertise within those who govern.
The role has had more to do with ensuring the ethos of a school adheres to selected denominational thinking and nurturing; embedded in the exercise of power, game-keeping, decision-making and the authority judged necessary to deliver this.
It presents as a legacy of religious instruction as opposed to religious education.
Is this not out of kilter especially within controlled structures which should be welcoming to learners of all faiths and none, not to mention sexual orientation and cultural identity; entitled as they are to the same curricular provision?
Too often the dominant component of a school ethos feeds into a de facto marginalisation of ‘non-mainstream’ in its widest sense.
The judgement of the Supreme Court seems to recognise this.
The continuance of transferors, afforded representation on the basis of historical arrangements with judgements and decisions too often informed by denominational interests and priorities will operate to frustrate the ruling.
The DUP and the TUV – products perhaps and now promoters of just such structural provision – have been first out of the traps to commit to ensuring that schools continue to reflect a Christian ethos; in effect to what is described above.
Given the nature of their politics where it is sometimes hard to see them exercise the values and discipleship of the beliefs they profess, it seems reasonable to conclude they want controlled schools to function as culturally and politically ‘Protestant’.
It is a classic example of ‘othering’ different educational institutions and beliefs.
Should churches be compliant?
Judging by the reducing attendance in churches and the decline of Sunday schools and church-based youth activities, the connection between school ethos and the membership health of denominations, seems ever more tenuous if not counter-productive.
Religiosity appears to be inoculating young people against Christianity.
Something is going wrong and it is not the job of schools to fix it.
They cannot be a lifeboat for vessels adrift in the storms of reduced significance, leadership deficit and historical scandals.
Bailout is by definition designed to rescue something which has become bankrupt.
It is the laziest of strategic thinking and sense of mission where your best option is to retain the privilege of proselytising to a captive audience.
Churches could benefit by stepping back to release the hold they lobbied to retain in the early years of Northern Ireland.
The current model is not the church ‘without walls’ that radical thinkers in church circles believe necessary in an inclusive, pluralist and democratic community; where service and leadership is not commensurate with sitting on a school board of management to risk, at best, compromising your values, at worst, exercising institutionalised manipulation to ensure denominational adherence in staffing and coded ethical practices.
It happens.
In addition, within the present structures there is an in-built inequality.
The days when Christian worship allowed churches to identify as mainstream are passing.
The ‘co-called mainstream churches’ speak for and represent an aging constituency with many younger people not attending church or, where they do attend, opting for newer fellowships which offer less traditional and formal worship, embrace inclusive outreach and address social need at source.
As with any church which is not Church of Ireland, Presbyterian or Catholic, they have no designated positions on school management boards.
In the context of the times this can only be deemed as ‘privilege’; further facilitated by educational authorities where they show a pattern of placing non-transferor members on boards in ways that avoid upsetting the denominational applecart; to preserve the status quo.
Will continuing this sustain a tension between denominational preference and the provision of religious education and collective worship in an objective, critical and pluralistic manner?
The Bible will surely remain as a key element of religious education but if resistant to change, that must come, churches may wish to reflect upon the wisdom of ‘pouring new wine into old wineskins.’
The current Minister of Education seems determined to try.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 28 Nov 2025 | 2:00 pm UTC
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