Zelenskyj waits a month for Hegseth signature on Patriot missiles
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World

World
Thousands gather in Amsterdam for fourth Red Line rally against Israel's Gaza war Demonstrators demand end to Dutch purchases of Israeli weapons and sanctions over war crimes, prime minister Rob Jetten who marched as D66 leader now finds attending inappropriate
dutchnews.nl
World
Museum skeleton buried in Adelaide 113 years after death German immigrant's bones sold for £10 by anatomy professor who fled murder charges, body donation was not legally possible at the time
theguardian.com
World
Departing UN chief Guterres calls climate fight a moment of truth Phrase used three times in twenty minutes as COP31 opens in Turkey, scientists have already told him the Paris warming goal is dead
wtop.com
World
World leaders price American promises at two-year expiry after midterm rout Merz notes Trump governed without Congress anyway, allies from Seoul to Ottawa conclude hedging is the only rational policy
wtop.com
World
New Zealand election too close to call with over 42 percent of votes counted Labour edges National 29.71 to 29.41 after campaign fought over cost of living, New Zealand First holds the balance at 9.41 percent
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United States

Pardoned January 6 rioter disrupts Seattle Diwali festival with anti-Hindu placards Jake Lang now seeks Republican Senate nomination in Florida after jail term for the Capitol attack, Trump lit a diya in the Oval Office the day before
newsweek.com
Georgia House seat flips after memory card reveals hundreds of uncounted votes Incumbent Gerald Greene turns a 58-vote deficit into a 262-vote lead, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger investigates the county that failed to upload them
newsweek.com
Ava DuVernay releases 14th on Netflix Follow-up to Oscar-nominated 13th documents systematic assault on birthright citizenship and equal protection, director says neighbours are hiding in their houses
theguardian.com
Willie Nelson publishes memoir The Last Leaf at 93 Outlaw who paid a 32-million-dollar tax bill with a double album says he learned nothing new about himself
theguardian.com
Young adults dominate cardiac-event reports on stimulant drinks and supplements Ages 18 to 34 account for 45 percent of cardiovascular cases with cardiac arrest 4.5 times more frequent, researchers flag pre-workout use and sleep loss among contributing circumstances
timesnownews.com

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
Spanish village of 321 inhabitants seeks barkeeper for 160 euros a month Berbegal offers El Meridiano on the village square on a four-year concession, price and applicant qualifications decide
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Miscellaneous
Willie Nelson publishes memoir The Last Leaf at 93 Outlaw who paid a 32-million-dollar tax bill with a double album says he learned nothing new about himself
theguardian.com
Miscellaneous
Ton-heavy water valve vanishes from Hamburg street 1927 cast-iron shutoff was headed for the city-history exhibit, Hamburg Wasser is missing a monument nobody guarded
abendblatt.de
Miscellaneous
Bietigheim-Bissingen raises parking tariff tenfold after 43 years German town ends a ten-cent hourly rate held since 1983, the one-euro replacement is still less than half Stuttgart's cheapest
bild.de
Miscellaneous
97-year-old dances to Stayin' Alive at his own birthday party in Los Angeles and dies Guests had just sung Happy Birthday, the Bee Gees track is the tempo first-aid instructors use for chest compressions
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Media

Media
Ava DuVernay releases 14th on Netflix Follow-up to Oscar-nominated 13th documents systematic assault on birthright citizenship and equal protection, director says neighbours are hiding in their houses
theguardian.com
Media
Macklemore says nine major US arenas refused his Free Palestine tour Madison Square Garden and Kia Forum among venues that declined once they learned shows were Palestine benefits, no authority banned anything while Fox News panel praises venue bans as powerful example
foxnews.com
Media
Trump begs UFC boss Dana White to take press secretary job Public plea follows predecessor's firing, promoter who spent quarter century turning hostile press conferences into content would inherit the briefing room
businessinsider.com
Media
Nick Harkaway sends George Smiley to 1965 America in The Taper Man, his second novel in his father's universe since John le Carré died in 2020 The son writes in his late father's very uncomfortable chair
wtop.com
Media
Prince Harry and Doreen Lawrence appeal Daily Mail hacking verdict Elton John and Liz Hurley join Court of Appeal bid after £9.5 million interim costs order, publisher denied all claims and has paid nothing so far
independent.co.uk
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Politics

Politics
Trump orders DOJ to investigate Democrats for extortion after midterm rout Impeachment threats reframed as crime, president who campaigned against weaponized prosecutions now aims them at named senators and donors
timesnownews.com
Politics
Lawyers accuse Trump administration of rewriting extradition request against jailed activist Spanish translation adds violent detonate and fires missing from English original, US request rests on one FBI agent's affidavit with no grand jury
theguardian.com
Politics
CAIR shuts down in Florida after court upholds DeSantis terror designation Federal judge lets HB 1471 stand while litigation continues, a governor can now brand a domestic organisation terrorist without federal process
thegatewaypundit.com
Politics
Texas governor-elect Hinojosa demands data center moratorium Nasdaq drops 5 percent as Democratic midterm wins threaten AI buildout, 75 percent of Texans opposed facilities in their own communities
zerohedge.com
Politics
Somali daycare owner flips Republican seat in Minnesota statehouse His center drew $7.29 million in childcare subsidies that more than tripled in three years, attorney general's office did not answer whether the center was investigated
zerohedge.com
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Opinion

Opinion
Luca Cesari: Italian chef sacked in Brisbane for refusing pineapple on pizza Food historian traces culinary authenticity to shifting recipe books and one 1860 newspaper, tradition's own elite already serve the forbidden fruit
theguardian.com
Opinion
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett: Propranolol prescriptions to English teenage girls up 90% in a decade Beta blockers blunt panic symptoms while the causes go untreated, therapy waiting lists make the cheaper pill the default answer
theguardian.com
Opinion
Simon Jenkins: Notre-Dame was rebuilt in five years under budget by donors free to walk away Westminster's repair estimate has climbed from 5.7 to 40 billion pounds, the MPs who commission the work also approve its budget and occupy the building
theguardian.com
Opinion
André Spicer: UK equality watchdog wants workers to see colleagues' exact pay Gender-gap reporting shrank the gap 19 percent by curbing men's raises, Danish transparency cut wages across the board
theguardian.com
Opinion
George Monbiot: Bird flu has circulated on a Utah mink farm since August Officials skipped testing the workers because farmers were annoyed, the virus has killed nearly half of the people known to have caught it
theguardian.com
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Europe

Europe
Six dead in Kraków market square shooting, three more bodies found at gunman's home Interior minister cites far-right ideology as Poland declares national mourning
independent.co.uk euronews.com
Europe
Five killed and more than a dozen injured in Kraków shooting Attacker fired at random people from a car in central square before police shot the perpetrator, motive unknown in a country where mass shootings are rare
theguardian.com
Europe
Russian barrage knocks out power and water in Kyiv 172 drones and 36 missiles hit substations feeding the capital two days before Abu Dhabi talks, Zelensky calls Kushner blueprint Yalta 2.0 as Trump promises big beautiful agreement
theguardian.com
Europe
Antibiotic resistance kills thirty-five thousand people a year in the EU Lancet projects 39 million deaths worldwide by 2050, the response on offer leans on vaccines and hygiene while the new-drug pipeline runs dry
euronews.com
Europe
Britain puts Titania military observation satellite into orbit 100kg BAE-built probe joins Tyche in network backed by over three billion pounds, the British-built pair of eyes launched from California on a SpaceX rocket
independent.co.uk
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North America

North America
Pardoned January 6 rioter disrupts Seattle Diwali festival with anti-Hindu placards Jake Lang now seeks Republican Senate nomination in Florida after jail term for the Capitol attack, Trump lit a diya in the Oval Office the day before
newsweek.com
North America
Georgia House seat flips after memory card reveals hundreds of uncounted votes Incumbent Gerald Greene turns a 58-vote deficit into a 262-vote lead, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger investigates the county that failed to upload them
newsweek.com
North America
ICE releases Wisconsin state trooper detained at airport while boarding domestic flight One DHS agency had cleared him for police work through 2030 while another arrested him, experts tie airport detentions to White House arrest quotas
theguardian.com
North America
Former NYPD officer charged with Brooklyn jogger's murder Marines and police had both deemed him psychologically unfit, he went back to his elementary school job days after the killing
independent.co.uk
North America
Mary Peltola campaign sues Alaska election officials over rejected absentee ballots Senate race separated by roughly 600 votes weeks into the count, campaign wants court order forcing disclosure of which ballots were rejected and why, the count has become the opening move of a second campaign in court
newsweek.com
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Latin America

Latin America
Paraguays ousted president Peña under house arrest after impeachment over Ueno bank collapse 2.9 million frozen accounts represent 60 percent of adults, resignation gambit to reach senator-for-life immunity fails as prosecutors open money laundering probe
theguardian.com
Latin America
Paraguay's president Santiago Peña resigns as Ueno Bank collapse freezes 3 million depositors Digital lender licensed under his administration carried up to 850 million dollars in state and pension funds, Peña held shares in the group that ran the bank until early last year and had called the favouritism reports a false media campaign
theguardian.com
Latin America
Belize declares state of emergency after seven weekend murders Decree covers 19 areas of Belize City and three villages for 30 days, second emergency this year as officials head to El Salvador to study Bukele's crackdown
breitbart.com
Latin America
US drone strike hits ELN camp on Venezuelan soil At least 20 dead in Apure operation backed by American intelligence and drones, century-long oil concessions worth up to 100 billion dollars take shape the same week
english.elpais.com
Latin America
Milei courts AI data centres with no regulation and tax breaks Patagonia pitch runs on Vaca Muerta gas while incentives require no local compute or energy disclosure, planned $3 billion hall has no customer yet
euronews.com
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Asia

Asia
Thailand prepares to deport two long-held Uyghurs to China Men who fled as part of 200-strong group in 2014 say return means slavery, Beijing's trade leverage outweighs UN protests over last year's 40 forced disappearances
theguardian.com
Asia
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures 22 in central Japan Epicenter 40 km below Shizuoka shakes Aichi Kyoto and Mount Fuji region, strict building codes turn potential disaster into broken glass and falling books
independent.co.uk
Asia
At least one worker a day loses a limb in Panipat Guardian on-the-ground report from world's largest textile recycling hub finds no safety gear in 20,000 factories, Western discarded clothes become furnishings for H&M Home and Ikea
theguardian.com
Asia
India imposes retroactive visa requirement on six non-Muslim minority groups CAA promised to protect, Gujarat court meanwhile upholds indefinite detention of Bangladeshi woman and infant, state promises to migrants carry expiry dates Gujarat court meanwhile upholds indefinite detention of Bangladeshi woman and infant, state promises to migrants carry expiry dates
scroll.in
Asia
Beijing confirms Xi-Trump-Putin meeting under discussion Three-way summit possible at Apec in Shenzhen this month, Putin pushing hardest for the photo while Kyiv braces for new strikes
theguardian.com
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Middle East

Middle East
Leaked Cisco memos treat Israeli intelligence outages as a customer sentiment problem Military intelligence contracts worth about 67 million dollars over three years, Splunk pitched for Project Nimbus while workers called the company an instrument of genocide
theguardian.com
Middle East
Qatari plan trades Hormuz reopening for nuclear inspections of Iran's bombed sites, US would lift naval blockade and release part of 8 billion dollars in frozen assets Tehran fears inspection data would become targeting data
theguardian.com
Middle East
US strikes Iranian air defense on Qeshm in first raid since Republicans lost Congress Trump calls the operation minor while Tehran reviews Qatari nuclear proposals, CENTCOM posts $20 million bounty for Iran's nuclear scientists
wtop.com
Middle East
Russia agreed to supply Iran with 90 helicopter missile launchers Leaked Vympel schedules name Tehran as recipient of export contract K-10, Trump claimed last month Moscow was doing very little if anything for Tehran
theguardian.com
Middle East
Iranian MPs threaten missile strikes on Europe if US uses its bases there Threats issued on the anniversary of the 1979 embassy seizure, hosting another country's war infrastructure acquires a stated price
euronews.com
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Africa

Africa
Mali midfielder Mamadou Sangaré shines after club-record £39m move to Brentford 24-year-old rose from a neighbourhood club in Bamako spotted by Austrian scouts on video, the fee changed hands between two European clubs
theguardian.com
Africa
Bantu expansion was a relay of migrations not a single wave Iron furnaces and DNA redraw millennia of African prehistory, 500 languages from Zulu to Swahili trace back to a spread no state directed
arstechnica.com
Africa
Kenya weighs foreign bids for rare earths beneath Mrima Hill Australian and Nasdaq-listed consortia chase a deposit with projected gross revenue of 62 billion dollars, Digo community vows to refuse digging on its ancestors' graves
independent.co.uk
Africa
Britain flies Ebola-infected healthcare worker home from Congo First British case in an outbreak that has killed five thousand of more than ten thousand infected, medevacs run to European isolation units while Congolese nurses face mobs
theguardian.com
Africa
Investors assume the man beside her owns the company Four African businesswomen describe prejudice at the bank, World Bank data shows female entrepreneurs denied loans at triple the rate of men, recycling founder Runsewe built a 62-person tyre factory nobody expected her to fund
theguardian.com
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Economy

Economy
Chatbot complaints swamp UK public bodies Machine-written grievances take minutes to send and hours to answer, councils with one fixed budget now judge letters by their bullet points
theguardian.com
Economy
Hillingdon still faces 45-million-pound hole after 175-million-pound bailout, west London council must cut deeper while government absorbs its school debt Greenwich councillors line up 42 percent pay rise the same week
standard.co.uk
Economy
SoCal Berry Growers closes six Ventura County farms Driscoll's supplier lays off 572 workers as water cost quadruples and labor nearly doubles, strawberries earned 807.8 million dollars and cost over 815 million to grow
independent.co.uk
Economy
Majority of British landlords plan to sell up after Labour tax hike Four per cent rental surcharge from April pushes supply out of the market, tax aimed at landlords lands on the tenants left queuing
independent.co.uk
Economy
TSMC weighs entry into memory chip production at Nvidia's request Foundry may break its own specialisation to build 3D DRAM as AI centres devour global supply, shortage already pushing up prices for iPhones and PlayStations
zerohedge.com
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Technology

Technology
Binance robbed of over six billion dollars in record crypto heist Hackers also sent Kyiv a fake nuclear strike alert, NCSC warns of hacking epidemic while fridge attacks ran on factory-default passwords
theguardian.com
Technology
US intelligence memo says China recruited Megaspeed executive to spy on Nvidia CEO Alice Huang allegedly tasked with persuading Jensen Huang to lobby against chip export curbs, Congress investigates the chief executive's private life while an authorized Chinese chip buyer lists a hollow gray shell as its office
techcrunch.com
Technology
Railway and PrimCloud dispute becomes first legal test of the AI agent era Autonomous purchasing meets contract law that assumed a human signed, liability vacuum gets settled by whoever bills by the hour
businessinsider.com
Technology
Cybertruck winds down as Tesla frees capacity for Cybercab robotaxi America's big electric pickup bet collapses without subsidies, Ford F-150 Lightning ran the same calculation first
businessinsider.com
Technology
Hackers stole credentials for every Chainalysis customer Blockchain surveillance firm that sells tracing to FBI ICE and Air Force lost names password hashes and live tokens for its entire user base, the company that watches everyone's transactions could not watch its own login page
arstechnica.com
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Science

Science
Young adults dominate cardiac-event reports on stimulant drinks and supplements Ages 18 to 34 account for 45 percent of cardiovascular cases with cardiac arrest 4.5 times more frequent, researchers flag pre-workout use and sleep loss among contributing circumstances
timesnownews.com
Science
Saul Newman traces supercentenarian records to pension fraud Jiroemon Kimura died at 116 with two official birth dates and three different school-leaving years, longevity industry sells escape from death to buyers who already own everything else
english.elpais.com
Science
Novartis pelacarsen cuts lipoprotein(a) by 78 percent without preventing a single heart attack or stroke Horizon trial of 8,322 patients shows zero benefit on every endpoint, US guidelines now urge every adult to get the same number checked
nbcnews.com
Science
Polar vortex weakens weeks ahead of schedule Earliest disruption on record raises risk of cold spells across Europe, any Arctic outbreak still depends on pressure systems that have yet to form
euronews.com
Science
Neurologist dismantles Zomato founder's brain wearable claims Temple device measures temple skin not brain, founder's own data stands alone with no independent replication
timesnownews.com
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