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Brooklyn detention center holding 1,200 has been under scrutiny since two fatal stabbings this summerFederal authorities have confirmed that they seized drugs, homemade weapons and electronic devices during a sweep of the jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held on sex trafficking conspiracy charges ahead of a trial next year.The Bureau of Prisons, which headed up the interagency sweep of the Metropolitan detention...

Mayor Eric Adams asks residents to take shorter showers as city agencies ordered to prepare conservation plansNew York’s mayor urged residents to take shorter showers, fix dripping faucets and otherwise conserve water, issuing a drought watch Saturday after a parched October in the city and in much of the United States.A drought watch is the first of three potential levels of water-saving directives, and...

Commandos land in northern Lebanon in highly unusual operation to capture supposed militant group memberMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Israeli military abducted who it said was a senior Hezbollah official in an unprecedented operation on Saturday morning during which Israeli commandos landed on the shores of Batroun, northern Lebanon, captured the alleged official and escaped via speedboat.In a statement, an Israeli military official...

Ukrainian president calls on countries to step in before troops sent to Russia by Pyongyang reach battlefieldUkraine’s president urged allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield, while the army chief said his troops were facing “one of the most powerful offensives” by Moscow since the full-scale war began.Volodymyr Zelenskyy raised the prospect of a...

Increasingly violent siege of north raises suspicions about Netanyahu’s war aimsIsrael has tightened its siege of northern Gaza in the face of warnings from the UN and other aid agencies that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives at are risk, raising questions over whether the Netanyahu government’s ultimate war aims include territorial expansion.The IDF says it is hunting Hamas militants but suspicions are growing...

The Palestinian American ‘squad’ member has been critical of Harris and the Democratic party’s inaction on GazaMichigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declined to endorse Kamala Harris at a union rally in Detroit, where the war in Gaza is the top issue for the largest block of Arab American voters in the country.Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress, is the only one...

The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look awayMove on. Nothing to see here. Just another ordinary, everyday apocalypse.If past experience is any guide, the world’s reaction to the floods in Spain last week will be similar to that of motorway drivers at a crash scene: slow down, take in the horror, outwardly express sympathy,...

Plant’s owners hope analysis of tiny sample will help to establish how to safely decommission facilityA piece of the radioactive fuel left from the meltdown of Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been retrieved from the site using a remote-controlled robot.Investigators used the robot’s fishing-rod-like arm to clip and collect a tiny piece of radioactive material from one of the plant’s three...

Thousands lined streets of Irish capital waiting for wrongly advertised parade after website’s ‘human error’A Pakistan-based company has issued an apology to Dubliners after a “human error” on its events website led to thousands of people turning up on the Irish capital’s main thoroughfare for a nonexistent Halloween parade.Footage on Thursday night showed throngs of people lining both sides of O’Connell Street waiting for...

Police accused of killing at least 11 unarmed bystanders since 24 October, amid claims poll was riggedSilvio Jeremias was on his way home from his job at a petrol station on the night of 25 October, in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, when he and his friends happened upon a group of protesters demonstrating against that day’s election results.The ruling Frelimo party’s presidential candidate Daniel Chapo...

Federal government overhaul to remove close to $20bn of student debt for 3 million AustraliansFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAll Australians will have their student debt cut by 20% next financial year, as part of a major federal government overhaul designed to boost access to education and address “intergenerational unfairness”.The change,...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against IsraelThe Israeli military said on Saturday it had intercepted three drones launched from the east over the Red Sea, without specifying where they came from, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).“A short while ago, three UAVs that were launched from the east were intercepted over the Red Sea …. the...

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both visited Wisconsin on Friday, with the latter joined on stage by Cardi BAt a Wisconsin rally on Friday, Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a “low-IQ person” and vowed to save the economy “from total obliteration” in a 1.5 hour-long meandering speech that touched on top campaign issues including the economy and foreign policy – but also featured threats...

New Conservative party leader will be announced shortly – but James Cleverly says he won’t serve in either’s shadow cabinetThe national newspapers are ignoring the Conservative leadership contest on their front pages this morning. But the i has polling which should come as good news to the new Tory leader. In his story, Hugo Gye says the Conservatives are ahead of Labour in a...

The ICO has written to the party after a complaint was made about an online tax calculator tool that also appeared to collect voter dataThe Conservative party has been told to improve its data handling by the information watchdog after it released a “tax calculator” that also appeared to be collecting voter data.The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wrote to the party telling it to...

Women tell us how they feel about safety after the actor’s remark on using a phone as a weapon went viralSaoirse Ronan’s comment about women’s safety on The Graham Norton Show has gone viral after she said using a phone as a weapon is something “girls have to think about all the time”. Ronan later said the reaction has been “wild” and that the...

Exclusive: Researchers who studied babies in Scotland believe cuts to benefits and services are linked to riseThe introduction of UK austerity policies has been associated with a striking increase in the number of babies in Scotland being born smaller or earlier than expected, data suggests.Researchers believe cuts to social security benefits and services are key to understanding these trends, which have hit families living...

Former PM wants to prove a point by staying the course, but other Tories said to be mulling their own early exitRishi Sunak is planning to stay the course in parliament on the backbenches, as friends said the former prime minister was keen to prove a point after multiple jibes about his potential return to California.Sunak has told colleagues that his children were newly...

Posts lauding anything from running in the rain to tiredness and a comfy bed are springing up on Instagram and TikTok“What a privilege it is to run in the rain. What a privilege it is to have a house I need to clean.” Social media is usually criticised for being a toxic space, but an emerging trend is pushing back against negativity with gratitude.Posts...

Israel targets north-eastern Lebanon and Beirut, while bombardment of Gaza raises fears of worsening humanitarian conditions for civiliansIsraeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 52 people and wounded scores more, the Lebanese health ministry said, while rockets fired from Lebanon fell on Israel on Saturday.Israeli police said 19 people were injured before dawn on Saturday in the central town of Tira. Three projectiles crossed...

The steep and stark environmental decline was not supposed to happen under the common agricultural policyRevealed: the growing income gap between Europe’s biggest and smallest farmsThe Rhine overflowed last winter, covering fields miles from the river and in some places leaving just the tops of trees visible.But Thomas Bollig, who farms just a few miles from the banks of the Rhine, was not worried....

Big farms rake in record profits when food prices soar, while small farms struggle on razor-thin margins‘Welfare for the rich’: how farm subsidies wrecked Europe’s landscapesThe income gap between the biggest and smallest farms in Europe has doubled in the past 15 years and hit record levels at the same time as the number of small farms has collapsed, a Guardian analysis of agricultural...

Robert F Kennedy Jr appears with Republican candidate, while congressman promotes state constitutional amendment to disqualify non-citizens from voting At a Wisconsin rally on Friday, Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a “low-IQ person” and vowed to save the economy “from total obliteration” in a 1.5 hour-long meandering speech that touched on top campaign issues including the economy and foreign policy – but also featured...

In Michigan, the ex-president repeated his aggressive attacks that Liz Cheney should have rifles ‘shooting at her’Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battled to woo voters in the key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin on Friday, as the presidential campaign enters its final stretch.Harris made several appearances in Wisconsin on Friday, including one that featured the musician Cardi B, while Trump visited both Michigan...