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In secret journal, Putin’s fiercest critic writes: ‘If your convictions mean something, you must be prepared to stand up for them’ The late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny believed he would die in prison, excerpts from his memoir reveal.Navalny was the most prominent foe of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption in Russia. He died in a remote Arctic...

A Dodge Ram 1500 is bigger than a Panzer I tank and campaigners say heavy trucks are ‘lethal’ in collisionsThe engines rev, the guitars thrum and a gruff narrator lays out why the vehicle occupying the driveway is more than just a machine. “A truck is a tool,” he says, “but a Ram – a Ram is life.”So begins an advert for the Ram...

Exclusive: Request to postpone Tsai Ing-wen’s trip came before ‘goodwill visit’ to China by David Lammy next weekThe UK Foreign Office (FCDO) asked for a visit by the former Taiwanese president to be postponed so as not to anger China ahead of a trip by David Lammy, the Guardian has learned.Lammy is due to travel to China next week for high-level meetings in his...

Palestinian women and children among dead after Israel reportedly targets schools and homes with quadcopters and airstrikesAt least 30 people have been killed by Israeli strikes throughout the day in northern Gaza’s Jabalia town and refugee camp, Gaza’s civil defence agency has said, a week after Israel launched an offensive there which it claims is aimed at stopping Hamas regrouping.The agency’s spokesperson, Mahmud Bassal,...

About 40 assailants fired rockets and hurled grenades at mines and miners’ quarters in country’s south-west, days before regional summit in IslamabadDozens of attackers armed with guns, rockets and hand grenades have stormed a cluster of private coalmines in south-western Pakistan on Friday, shooting some miners in their sleep and others after lining them up, killing at least 21, police have said.The attack by...

This blog is now closing. You can read our latest full report on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon here and all our coverage of its war on Gaza here.Israel’s Magen David Adom has reported that one person has been killed and another wounded at a kibbutz in northern Israel by anti-tank fire from Lebanon.Israel’s emergency services said the person killed was a 27-year-old Thai national...

Benjamin Netanyahu has humiliated Biden’s America and seems to anticipate Trump’s return, but what would that mean for Israel?The year since the 7 October attack has demonstrated just how densely intertwined US presidential politics is with the trajectory of events in the Middle East. Each exerts a gravitational pull on the other, often in ways that are damaging for both.Foreign policy rarely matters much...

Two incidents in Lebanon prompt growing concern over Israel’s escalating campaign and the spreading Middle East conflictAn Israeli airstrike has killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three others, hours after the Israeli military fired on the headquarters of a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for the second time in as many days.The two incidents on Friday prompted further concern over Israel’s escalating campaign, amid...

Concerns are growing that funds from the migration deal are connected to abuses by the repressive regime in TunisThe EU will be unable to claw back any of the €150m (£125m) paid to Tunisia despite the money being increasingly linked to human rights violations, including allegations that sums went to security forces who raped migrant women.The European Commission paid the amount to the Tunis...

Health of Paul Biya, 91, declared matter of national security and any debate prohibited after denial that he has diedCameroonian authorities have banned discussions about the health of the president, Paul Biya, after the latest round of speculation about his prolonged failure to appear in public.In a 9 October letter to regional governors, the interior minister, Paul Atanga Nji, said discussing the 91-year-old president’s...

More than year’s worth of rain fell in two days in south-east Morocco, filling up lake that had been dry for decadesDramatic pictures have emerged of the first floods in the Sahara in half a century.Two days of rainfall in September exceeded yearly averages in several areas of south-east Morocco and caused a deluge, officials of the country’s meteorology agency said in early October....

Nihon Hidankyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’Nobel peace prize 2024 – latest updatesSurvivors of the atomic bombings of Japan almost eight decades ago have won the Nobel peace prize for their campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons.The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations – commonly known as Nihon Hidankyo – received...

Hundreds of poor and desperate children targeted in anticipation of long and bloody battle, says Human Rights WatchHaitian armed gangs are recruiting starving children to swell their ranks ahead of an anticipated long and bloody battle with international security forces, a report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found.Armed groups – which control most of Haiti – are enticing hundreds, if not thousands, of...

Police say pair ‘assisting with investigations’ after Dani Cuesta posted photo of himself with ‘Lim go home’ signA Spanish couple have been detained after the man held a banner to protest against Peter Lim, the billionaire Singaporean owner of Valencia football club.Dani Cuesta had shared photos on social media of himself holding a sign that said “Lim go home” at various locations in Singapore,...

Han, whose works include The Vegetarian, was praised for her ‘intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 53-year-old South Korean novelist Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Her works include The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts...

Engineers said to be supporting missile launches and reports of North Koreans killed near Donetsk North Korean military engineers have been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine with ballistic missiles, and fighters operating in occupied areas of the country have already been killed, senior officials in Kyiv and Seoul said.There are dozens of North Koreans behind Russian lines, in teams that “support launcher systems...

Tata, described as ‘a truly uncommon leader’, credited with transforming Tata Group into a global conglomerateThe Indian business tycoon and former Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has died, aged 86.Tata, who had headed India’s largest conglomerate for over 20 years, had been receiving intensive care at Mumbai hospital, according to Reuters.Additional reporting by Reuters Continue reading...

UN and legal experts have condemned prosecution of anti-mining campaigners over alleged civil war-era killingFive environmental activists who helped secure a historic mining ban in El Salvador are facing life imprisonment for an alleged civil war-era crime, in a case that has been condemned by UN and legal experts as baseless and politically motivated.The trial against Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio...

Unrwa commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini says there is ‘no end to hell’ in GazaWe have more reports coming in of deadly Israeli attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza (see post at 07.54) and Bureij refugee camp, which is located nearby.Two Israeli airstrikes hit tents for displaced people in the camps earlier, the Associated Press reports. The bodies of nine people, including...

Mayor of Tampa warns residents they are ‘going to die’ if they stay behindJoe Biden said on Tuesday that Hurricane Milton could be one of the worst storms in the US for 100 years and advised residents to leave immediately as “a matter of life and death”.The US president also told reporters at an event in Wisconsin that his team was doing everything they...

Robert Jenrick, the bookmakers’ favourite prior to the Tory conference, has implied he is victim of ‘horse trading’Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, seems to agree with Robert Jenrick (see 9.35am) that Jenrick is at risk of losing out because of Tory MPs voting tactically against him. As the Telegraph reports, Farage told GB News:Who makes the last two? Well, I tell you: Cleverly,...

Owner of Nomad restaurant group in Surry Hills arrested after pro-Palestine protest at weekendFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProminent Sydney restaurateur Alan Yazbek has been charged with knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol in public.After Sunday’s pro-Palestine rallies, New South Wales police charged two men for allegedly displaying Nazi symbols.Sign up for...

Singer-songwriter Jaguar Wright made claims against the couple during a discussion of disgraced rapper Sean Combs on Piers Morgan UncensoredPiers Morgan has apologised to Beyoncé and Jay-Z following allegations made against them on his YouTube-hosted show Piers Morgan Uncensored.Singer-songwriter Jaguar Wright made an appearance with Morgan last week to discuss the numerous sexual assault allegations against rapper and mogul Sean Combs. During the interview...

Collection being exhibited at Jane Austen’s House in Hampshire includes her brother Frank’s copy of EmmaA collection of first editions of all six of Jane Austen’s novels, some of which would almost certainly have been handled by the writer herself, are going on display together for the first time at the house where she wrote.The collection being exhibited at Jane Austen’s House in Chawton,...